21st Century PowerPoint

Today in ECMP we began to use this free program that is offered on the internet. It is such a neat tool and could be used in any classroom to tell stories to students or even offer them todays lesson that they missed. It is so easy to use and could potentially help students in so many ways. Even your students could use this within a classroom. Kids could use their imagination and create their own virtual story on the internet. That way the students could share their stories with everyone, such as grandparents and parents, aunts and uncles along with friends and neighbors. Students will enjoy creating stories on the computer because it is much more interesting than the traditional way of pencil and paper. This magical tool is available at no charge to anyone, you just need an account and it can be found at voicethread.com I highly recommend using this tool within your classroom.

PowerPoint

When I was in school, like back in the day (just kidding, I just graduated), PowerPoint was a cool tool that your teacher let you use if she was being nice. you used it basically to put up your entire presentation on the wall, bore all of your classmates including your teacher and never really new how to make it better. But now that we are using it in ECMP, when I am a little older and a little wiser plus a lot more interesting, we are doing things with PowerPoint I should have been doing years ago. For instance, timing the slides so that you don’t have to click every single item onto the page, not putting the entire presentation on each slide and beefing it up with sound and pictures. Now I know how to use PowerPoint to explain lessons, make presentations to the public and even teach my students how to use it. Thank you ECMP for not embarrassing me in my future career.

More, more, more

I keep learning new things. Today we learned how to create a video and share it with your class on the internet and the world. Here is a link to a video I found really interesting:

http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=4973

A class made there own virtual choose your own adventure book. How neat!

My First Commercial

Check out the sweetest MaterCard commercial ever:

I am so proud of myself!