Preference

I preferred to use the asynchronous video communication. I felt like this is a good way to send messages to a large group of people without talking individually on Skype or Google Video. It was fun to see the person that I was talking to with the synchronous chat, but I feel that for a teacher the asynchronous video would be more effective. I could record videos of instruction for my students or share a fun "live" message with all of them. With asynchronous video the people I am communicating with do not have to be at their computer. They can view the video when the time is convenient for them. These new tools were fun to learn about and I feel like they will both benefit me as a teacher.

Facebook Asynchronous video

Talking with Katie on Skype

Here is Katie during our Skype chat.

What I Learned...

This week was a little bit overwhelming, but I am grateful to be learning all of the useful technology and computer skills that will benefit me in my teaching. I learned how to create a web-page using PB works and successfully inserted my google-calendar onto the website. I also uploaded a picture to the website after I edited it. And found a Google map that I put on the website. Google Docs was probaby the hardest thing for me to completely comprehend. I hope that I will get better at that. I think it was difficult for me just because it was very new to me. I think the Google calendar on the website will be so useful when I am a teacher. It will help my students (and me) keep up to date on what's going on in the classroom and at the school.

Multimedia Project

This is our video for how to make cookies.

Story Board

This is Ashley's story board. I didn't realize that when you took the camera the pictures left my computer. Sorry. I hope this works.

Video Idea

Standard 20
Objective 20.0108-0103. Identify appropriate abbreviations, food-measurement terminology, techniques, equivalents, and calculate recipe-size adjustments and demonstrate proper measuring techniques.
We are going to make a video that demonstrates how to make chocolate chip cookies. The focus of our video will be to teach correct measuring techniques and terminology. The students will learn how to measure liquid and dry ingredients and how they are measured differently. Ahely and I are going to get together and make the cookies. We will take still pictures to use in our video.
Here is the link to the Utah Core Curriculum Standards (Food and Nutrition 1):
http://www.uen.org/ctecore/core.do?courseNum=200108