Who knew??

Alright, so I'm one step further to being a techie (by my definition anyway). I find that I don't get papers written nearly as fast as I used to, I don't get readings done as quick as I used to, and I don't have projects completed quite as timely as I used to. When I say "used to", that means pre-google page, pre-high-speed, pre-bookmarks, and pre-anything that I didn't know before this class. I find myself going straight to email first before anything else, or I go to the google page, or I play around with some of the websites that we've learned about. Once I've finished doing all of these things, an hour has passed... and like right now, I still need to write a paper!

News Aggregator

Holy Cow!! If it weren't for this class, I would never have created my own personalized homepage...that I go into every day now! I love how I can add all my favorite bookmarks and sites right there on one page to check all the time. I'm still working on finding better blogs that have a lot of activity. Every day I'm more amazed at how much I've been missing out on with my computer because I just didn't know what exists. Thanks to this class, I'm learning. I really do feel like a kid in a candy store!

PowerPoint

It feels so good to have learned the newest version of PowerPoint in class. Not that I was a master at the first version but I could muddle my way through, get done what I needed to with a fairly decent end result. The newest version has so many shortcuts and enhancements that it actually makes it fun to use.

I look forward to using PowerPoint in the classroom as an interactive took, and also teaching the children to use PowerPoint for various activities (depending on the grade).

Link to my Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/dashboard/prich23

RSS

I wish all classes had reading assignments in video form! It was a good follow up after reading the RSS article on problogger.net. Most people are probably picking out certain item that they learned about RSS that they didn't already know. I have to say, I didn't know any of it, so I really did learn a lot from it. After seeing the video, I did recognize the logic/theory behind RSS and am anxious to see how long it takes me to figure it out!