Inspiration Activity

I enjoyed doing the Inspiration Activity. I found that it was a convenient way to organize my thoughts, as well as see them all laid out. I could make changes much easier than writing it down on a piece of paper and it was much more eye-catching than a plain sheet of paper and a pencil. I would use this tool again to plan lessons, if I had this program on my computer. Hopefully, when I get my school computer when I become a classroom teacher, I will be fortunate enough to have this tool.

Inspiration Social Studies Outline

The textbook that goes along with this lesson is cited here:

Bendnarz, Dr. S. W., Cortes, Dr. C.E., Jennings, Dr.
C., Schug, Dr. M.C., White, Dr. C.S., Viola, Dr.
H.J. (2009). Social studies Tennessee:
communities. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Creating presentations

I created the opposites presentation in GoogleDocs today. Because I am savvy and can use Powerpoint pretty well, it did not take me long to do the presentation. In fact, I think GoogleDocs presentations are easier to use than Powerpoint! It is very convenient. In fact, I don't know why anyone (who uses these things for the same purposes I am) would need to buy these programs. Anyway, I feel like I am already better able to use technology and that I am excited about. I didn't think this class would be very helpful, but it is turning out to be useful in all of my other classes too.

Opposites slide show

Pictures

Lesson Plan

Because I have a lot of experience writing lesson plans, I did not feel that the lesson plan activity was too difficult. I did have a little trouble incorporating technology into the classroom, but it was not extremely difficult to do so. Language arts is not always the most technology friendly, but my partner and I found a way to make it work. I felt that this was a worthwhile activity and helps me prepare lessons with technology incorporated in them.