April 4, 2010

What?

This week we worked on PowerPoint activities. This is an activity that we will use for our students to help them to be better at PowerPoint. I am so glad I will be doing this because I learned how to do powerpoint in college.

So what?

We learned how to copy and paste objects from powerpoint so my students will be able to visually see instructions instead of justreading them. Reading instructions is definitely more difficult. Especially for visual learner, so I know that this is going to help me be such a better instructor by giving so much help. I am so excited that I will be able to help my students even more. I know this will help me personally too to learn some more things about PowerPoint. I know I will be doing a lot of PowerPoint discussions and I need to know it backwards and forwards.

This technology means so much to me! Teaching my students how to use PowerPoint is going to be very useful for them. My students will be able to know PowerPoint before they even enter college. How awesome will that be that be to know how to use PowerPoint prior to their education? That truly would be awesome for them. Know how to teach this technology is going to be so benefiical in my classroom.

Now What?

Having this knowledge is going to make me such a better teacher. I will not only be teaching my students Health, but technology as well. Having knowledge in technology can expand a persons education to great knowledge. It is true that you need to know technology for this generation. Sooner then we know it everything will be technology and if we don't teach our students how to use it they are going to be very far behind. I will be able to use this in helping teach other technologies as well.

PowerPoint is a great source as a teacher, student, and colleague. Students have to give many presentations in college and being able to use it their Freshman year is awesome. I want to help my students prepare for college and teaching them about technology will be a great thing they take with them. I want to be successful as a teacher and I know I can be if I am teaching my students to latest technology. I have to stay updated and keep teaching them because I only learned this in my last two years of college and it was definitely a lot more difficult.