Sarah M. Ryals IT 365

Last week we began working on our Google Groups assignment: A discussion thread on google groups, a story written by everyone in our group on google docs, and a presentation that we are to make on our own with google slides. After working on the assignment last week, I have finally finished my presentation. It's very short, but I think it's quite cute. Among the main slides, I also included a couple of worksheets that could possibly go with the slide lesson.

Well, I didn't exactly have a free weekend like I had originally believed, so I just completed my web tools assignment. Using RubiStar was extremely easy, and making a word search worksheet on Education.com was really fun; it was my favorite part of the assignment, which is why I included a photo of it. Making a quiz was a bit more complicated for me to think of questions to ask; I probably didn't do that well, but, hey, at least I completed it, and that's what matters the most, I guess.

Tonight we began working on our Web Tools assignment. I finished the rubric on RubiStar and puzzle on Discovery Education that we were supposed to make, but I haven't quite completed the quiz on Easy Test Maker that I'm making. I'll finish it over the weekend, hopefully. I found it very interesting to learn about these websites and how I can use them in my future classroom. I'll make a final post including pictures of my project as soon as I'm finished with it.

Finally finished my concept map! I know it's not the best, but I'm fairly happy with it. It honestly took until I got home from class on Thursday to decide what I really wanted to base my theme on, and I decided on the solar system. It's just something that I truly find interesting, and I believed I would do my best work with a subject that I actually care about.

Tonight in class, we first learned about Poll Everywhere, a website used for polling. Our professor had questions on the poll in a quiz-like form that we answered using text messages. It's so nice to be able to take a little quiz by just texting our professor's Poll Everywhere number. We also began learning how to create concept maps. I don't even recall ever seeing concept maps when I was in school, but they're such a neat method to use when teaching a lesson. I have the basics done, but I've barely made a dent in making my concept map what I really envision; thankfully I have a free weekend to make it perfect.

This week we created an educational video using Adobe Spark. Using information from our textbook, each individual in my group created their own slides from assigned sections from our designated chapter: chapter 3. My group worked together really well, and I actually enjoyed creating the slides for the group project. I'm looking forward to creating more projects in this class, and I'm happy to be learning more and more about being able to use technology in the classroom.

Hello everyone! My name is Sarah Ryals, and I'm so excited for this semester. I've previously taken public speaking online, so I'm fairly comfortable with talking to a camera (Obviously very comfortable with talking about myself because I droned on for ages; sorry about that). I've always been quite comfortable working with computers, so I think this class will be fun and intriguing. I'm completely new to blogger so please bare with me as I learn how to use it correctly.