My Final Reflection

(I don't know what happened to that post last night so I am re-posting)

TPTE 486 class has been very interesting and I learned a lot of things that I never had thought. I knew technologies will help Deaf people but what I had learned in TPTE 486 will certainly enrich Deaf people and in Deaf school as well.

I am going to use several lessons that I learned from TPTE 486 for my classroom. My most favorite lesson was doing Scavenger hunt, Digital Story (iMovie project)and Google sites (website). I believe these my favorites will benefit my future students because Deaf people enjoy using their imaginations so I want to encourage their creativity and putting technological experiences in their minds.

TPTE 486 course is a great tool for pre-teachers and teachers as well. Everyone can be able to learn technologies what matter how old you are! Many people quotes that you can't teach old dog a new trick. That is not true! I am going to recommend to anyone who want to learn about technologies in classroom to take TPTE 486!

Overall, it has been great summer and I enjoyed being in the class and I certainly learned real deal on technology in the classroom.

Another of my digital collections!

I did another digital collections which came from four things: digital camera, scanned picture, free picture from google and clip art picture.   My theme of this collection is 1981 Chevy Truck.  Here it

Digital Story

I never had thought about digital story project.  I think that is very cool project because it is a good way to show off of what you had done in past.  I believe it is a good way to do that especially in history classes because the students can find a important character in history and make it a true story to explain the character.  Good way to encourage the students to do researching and collecting videos and pictures.

At first when I heard "digital story", my thought was that digital story is for people who loves to share their life experience like a open book.  I am quite private person.  As I probed and explored other students' digital stories and I became more open to that idea. 

It can be used for personal and educational.  It is endless possibilities!

My thoughts about iMovie softare...

After working on iMovie project and I find that it is very easy to set up and edit.  I did PC MovieMaker before and it was little difficult and confusing.  I am a hard-die Apple/Mac fan!  I would suggest using Mac products in the classroom because of its ease of operation and easy to understand compared to PC.  Also Mac software is much cheaper than PC software.  For example: Mac recently released a new OS X Lion upgrade and it only cost me 30.00 dollars for upgrade while PC Microsoft OS upgrades would cost from 125.00 dollars or more.

That why I would suggest Mac in the classroom due of cost.  Yes, Mac products such as iMac, Macbook Pro and etc is quite expensive but in long run it will last years.

I believe that students would enjoy doing iMovie activities in the classroom because it is a good way to express yourself.  As for Deaf people, it is good way to record your blogs, events and yourself in sign language and put it in iMovie to be posted in any sites like YouTube and Blogger.

My iMovie Project: My trip to Cozumel, Mexico and Tulum Ruin

Here my short video and it is about my trip to Cozumel, Mexico and Tulum ruin.  I think it would be good and interesting for people who love ancient history.  The movie was made by iMovie software and I love it!  Enjoy!

My thoughts on Animoto

After reviewing Animoto website, I find it very interesting although it is mostly fee based with an exception of a free that offers very basic version.  I think with that software, it is more like targeted toward personal thing, not toward educational thing but it could be modified for educational purposes. 

Inspiration work!

I have been working on my inspiration project and it was very interesting!  I never had thought that it could benefit in classroom!  It can be used as study guide or creating timelines for history classes and many things it can be done!  It was not that hard and it was easy to create and post pictures and texts on it.  Thank God for this software! (Inspiration).  Here my picture of my project:

 

My project was about Ancient Egypt.  I know it is small to view but this would allow enough room in this blog.  I tried to make it bigger but it overlapped and did not look good!

Enjoy!