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Embeded Presentation

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I feel the same reasons from the blog below can be applied to this blog post and its use in the classroom.

PowerPoint

This is the link to my final presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/guest16f9c65/sequencing-3198166

I used Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create the original presentation and then saved it as a ppt. I then uploaded it to the Internet using http://www.slideshare.com.


Slideshare is helpful as a digital tool in the classroom because it offers the teacher another way to save the work they want to show in the classroom. In case you lost your flash drive or you cannot access your teacher file for some reason, you have your presentation made available online. Also, you have given your students the ability to view the presentation online at the leisure either at home (assuming that the student has Internet access) or on another school computer.

Wordle

I am really interested in learning how to do the "word cloud" however I am having a lot of problems with the program itself. I tried and retried to change firewall settings (which didn't make me very comfortable), enable Java (which was already enabled), update Java (the trouble shooting guide said I needed Java 6 update 10 and I downloaded Java 6 update 17). None of these options worked for me. I just kept getting a big red X when I tried all three options to "create" a word cloud.

File Conversion

I have worked for nearly 2 hours trying to figure out what I can do to get this video "embedded" into my blog. So far, the program I was asked to download in order to convert my video caused my screen to go blank and I lost all work I had open on my screen at the time. The program scared me and I do not like downloading programs I am unfamiliar with. Aside from this, the link on our work page to help us learn how to convert did not show up. It kept telling me the link was disabled.

Jing Screencast

http://www.screencast.com/users/Drew38/folders/Jing/media/abea0e4c-bca0-404d-8da1-b07866f23153

This is the public link to my Jing movie I created on how to correct a misspelled word using the Microsoft Office application.

Jing is a useful digital tool for preparing special needs students for online writing assessments. Using Jing, I can create a one-on-one tutorial for each student. As students practice daily in their writing classes, all they have to do is play the clip to remind them how to make a correction without having to stop and ask the teacher to repeat directions.

Jing Graphic 1

Well, here is the first attempt at using Jing. The video tutorial did not do a very good job of telling you how to access the link in order to copy and paste it someone for people to see. I thought it was already on your clipboard and you could just click paste in the blog but I guess I was wrong.

Area Line Bar Pie Scattared blah blah

In short, we were to access student data through the http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/ website. Once we accessed the information, we were to click on the http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/ website and generate a graph detailing our findings. We were to review all the information given and choose the most appropriate graph to best display our findings.

Here are the links to my finished assignment.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af7wZrLOkuTEZGQ4M25wMzRfNDhoaDZicGM4&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd83np34_6d9w8kmdw

I used http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/makecrap.php once again to help create this assignment. This tool is useful for special needs students, or any students for that matter, to have a more understandable/visual evidence of student progress. For example, Students could view their Dibel Scores through a graph like this and make their own goals for motivational purpose.

Self Portrait

This website was interesting to say the least. I used this link http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html to create my self portrait. This digital tool provides students in a special needs environment to integrate art and art history in a new and fun way.

I really think this is a poor portrait of myself but I did my best. I didn't have as many problems as I normally do on these assignments. I just played around with the different images I could click on and played around with the rotate, color, flip, bring forward, bring backward, scale up, and scale down buttons. These were really fun. I got a bit carried away. I'm like a little kid. I played around with the different head shapes in order to get the hair to look "right." Even though I know that's not the point of a Picasso painting, I wanted it to look somewhat "right." I still did not get the hair I wanted. I tried to scale different hair up and down to fit best but it just didn't work. I chose this hair to look like it was blowing in the wind.

Crappy Graphics

This was definitely a crappy graph. I did my best. Here is the link to view my graph as a webpage: http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/?id=5333
Here is the link to the webpage I used to create the graphic: http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/makecrap.php

The crap graph gives students with special needs the opportunity to draw their own graph that resembles their own handy work. This is most helpful in a special needs environment because students may have difficulty with fine motor skills and this provides the opportunity to draw their own graph with fewer mistakes. For some students, clicking and dragging is easier than actually drawing with a pencil.

Draw Something

I FINALLY learned how to use the snipping tool. I am so sorry it took me this long. I had some trouble trying to figure out where exactly the image went once I "snipped" the image. Okay. So once I figured everything out, I managed to use my "snipper" in combination with my draw something assignment. I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to save this image and get it uploaded to my blog. This is where the snippy tool helped out alot.

I really like using graphics and such in Microsoft word. I work in a special education classroom, so when I have to do something quickly, this word application works in a jiffy. The images are already there. All you have to do is click on the one you want and "insert" the image as you want it to appear.

At first I thought this was just anothee JPEG image. When I set my cursor over the image, I found I saved it as a "Bitmap Image." I am not going to say that I know what this means. If you right click on the image in my blog and hit properties, it says the image is a HTML. It also tells you that the image is 20205 bytes in size.

Desktop Graphic

I used the paint program by Microsoft. I used this program because it was easy. I couldn't find many other programs dealing with graphics. I know how to use Microsoft Office 2007 and the graphing tools. I wanted to open up my playbook and show my drawing skills. This is saved through the paint program under my pictures. It is saved as a jpeg image. Paint is easy and fun and elementary kids can sharpen their fine motor skills. Although the progam was easy to use, there weren't many options to create lines, curved lines, and other images that I am skilled in using. I wanted to find a way to insert triangles, squares, and X's among other shapes with just one click of the mouse instead of drawing with the mouse line by line. This paint program would be a great tool to used with my Special Education math students. They work on simple problems and fractions and I would be able to easily draw the problems in paint and have my students come up and draw the answers with mouse.