Instructional Videos

I think that the instructional videos were helpful. The only thing that I would recommend is that you do them from a windows computer because it is kind of hard to get to where we need to be when the screens don't look the same. The one on how to source the pictures helped me on my website because I definitely didn't know how to do that. Overall, I think that they were very helpful.

My EDM 310 blog assignments are Now Complete!

Well, this semester has went by extremely fast and I hope that you all have good luck in your next semesters at school. Have fun this summer too.

Last Blog Assigment

I learned a lot in this class. I learned how to make a website which could be very helpful in a classroom so that the parents can view it to see what is going on in the class. I also learned how to make a trifold brochure which could come in handy at the beginning of the year so that I could explain a little about myself and how I will run my classroom. I would have like to learn how to make a gradebook using excel. I did learn how to use the google spreadsheets which could come in handy when I buy a new car. I think that when making the powerpoints in the beginning we should have got to use powerpoint instead of using the google presentation thing. I also wish we could have used something different to make our websites so that we could have gotten a little more creative. Overall, learned a lot and it was a great experience.

Wikipedia

I don't think that Wikipedia is a very reliable source of information. But on some things they are correct about because, you can look it up at other websites. On the other hand though if someone doesn't like something that is said on there that may be the truth then they can change it to something else so that they don't look bad. For example in the article it said Wal-Mart change what was said about them on Wikipedia was changed by someone at Wal-Mart just because, they didn't like what was said about them. There are some things on there that are factual and some that are not. On there it shows you how many times something has been edited so if it has been edited once or more then you should know that something was either changed to make that particular story about them look good or it could have just been wrong in the beginning by whom ever wrote the story in the first place. I use it a lot to find things out about particular things but I would never use it to write a school paper or anything like that.

stanford university video

I think the video is helpful for us to understand the difference between the growth and fixed mind set. I think that it was very interesting to learn about the two different types of mind sets. I didn't really know about them before and this video was very informational. It as neat to see that this stayed with you even when you grow older. That if you have a growth mind set you will go far in life.

This will effect me as a teacher becuase, the children with the growth mind set will be easier to teach. The ones with the fixed mind set will be a little more difficult because, I will have to get them to leatn how to see things a little differently than what they do. They won't be as willing to learn because, they may think that they already know what is right and they don't want to expand on the idea. Whereas the others will be willing to learn new things and it will help them to grow throughout thier life.