I am sad to say this is my last blog for this unit. I have to say that before I started this unit I knew nothing about computers, and now I often amaze myself with what I can do. This unit has taught me how to find different technologies to use for many years to come and I am so glad I enrolled in this unit. So thanks to Jenny for spending the time to teach me these things, I have really enjoyed myself and intend on continuing my love for computers now. Today Jan also mentioned about the othe...
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Today in my tutorial class Jenny showed me how to use a site called flickr, which is used for putting images onto our wiki. I did not even realise that by using google images it is classed as copyright. I have now told my daughter about this site now, as she always uses google images


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I am now very frustrated as I have finished the presentation and trying to upload it to our wiki, but the wiki won't allow me to edit anything and I don't know why. I have posted a message on the discussion board and sent Jenny an email but still waiting for a reply. I have also txt Tania and Gillian but they must be busy. Really want to get this finished as I have an essay to get started.


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I have been very busy this week working on our groups power point presentation. I firstly had to reasearch how to do a powerpoint as I have never done one before, but it gave very clear instructions. it was great. At least now I can use power point in the future. I have spent many hours construction our presentation and I am very pleased with the result. I will show the girls tomorrow and see what they think, hopefully they will like it !

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In the lecture today the topic was goodbye teacher, it talked about moving teachers into the 21st century and changing the way they teach kids. it showed us the teaching machine that replaced teachers in the classroom. Fred Keller wrote an article about how teachers were no longer needed in the classroom. The lecture also talked about mobile learning where students could use their mobile phone for learning such as video, speaker, designs and digital stories, and perhaps in the future this may...
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My group and I have started our wiki it's called solar planets. I have been nominated to do the powerpoint so I have been reasearching how to do it. I downloaded microsoft office powerpoint and have done alot of reading on how to do the slides for the powerpoint presentation. I am now really excited to get started.
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I have had a hard day today as I have been studying all day and now I am ready for bed. During today I have been reasearching information for my assignment 3 and have found lots. However not really sure how the wiki works yet and how to put my info on for my group to see. Will have to look further into this tomorrow, hopefully the companion website has links to show me this, as it has been mighty helpful in the past.

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Met with my group for assignment 3 this week. We have decided our topic is going to be space. However I am getting very frustrated as my wikispaces is not working and I can't get on to it until Dani emails me. So I am anxiously waiting, so I can contribute with my group.

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Had a really hard day today trying to work out how to attach my assignment 2 onto my webite. Thankfully a really nice lady Valerie on the LMS discussions gave me some great advice, so a big thankyou to you Valerie. I have finished and attached my assignment 2 and this is what it looks like, hopefully I have done it correctly.


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I have been working on my assignment 2 and found many interesting findings including this one on youtube
using ipads in the classroom. I have discovered many technologies that I never knew about before, and also ways in which teachers program these technologies into their classroom. So it has been a great week!

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After our last tutorial I now know more of what to do for assignment 2. I have finally made a start and I am quite enjoying doing the research for it, as I am finding it very interesting. I have decided to do literacy as I can find alot of information in this area. Also I have found the companion website very helpful for this assignment.

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I am not happy today as I have been waiting and waiting for my peer review to come back, but I have now realised that the person doing mine is abviously not going to do it. Which I have to say is not very nice of that person as how can I improve my website without any feedback. Luckily I met a really nice lady Jody today in our tutorial and she gave me some feedback which has really helped me improve my website, so thanks Jody.

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I would really recommend if anyone is stuck to go onto the lms, as you can go into the discussion section and ask other students questions about assignments or anything in general, as I quite often go on if there is something troubling me. It even helps me to just read other students comments and to know I am not the only one out there having confusing thoughts. Also I really think the companion website is great in giving ideas for our assignments,it even gives you examples on what our assign...
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I must say I have found a tool quite amazing, thanks to Jenny. Its called jing and I have used this throughout my assignment 1b. Jing has made my assignment 1b look so wonderful and amazing. I really recommend everyone to have a look at www. jing.com and see for yourself. Jing has helped me take snap shots of my assignment like this.
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I have finally finished my draft for assignment 1b, and I can't wait to see what my reviewer has to say. I have quite enjoyed doing this assignment. Although thankyou to Jenny for the great examples that you gave us on the companion website, as these examples made it alot more clearer on what was expected. It's amazing what you can do on these sites and create yourself, it's not hard if I can do it anybody can. Also I have learnt how to do a hyperlink on this blog page, I am so proud of myse...
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I have nearly finished my assignment 1b and I must say that I have had a great time doing it. The application I decide to use was www.myheritage.com . I wanted to do it on something that I could use again, and I must say I would never of done this sort of thing if it wasn't for this assignment, so thanks Jenny it's been great. I must admit that I am a little bit addicted to this site now and love adding to it, anyway if you get a chance have a look, as I highly recommend it.
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Today I very much enjoyed the lecture, it showed me the different ways in which you can teach in the classroom and the way in which the students can learn, even when it involves one subject. It also was about Larry Cuban and his book Over Sold and Under Used, where he talks about using technology for learning has a purpose.
Today on my lunch break I was speaking to Gill about my assignment 1b and got a few ideas for my instructions that I need to write, which has helped me alot thanks Gill. As...
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After our lecture last week I have started to do some research into what network would be of intrest to me, as I want to do something that I can use again. I first started looking into www.todoist.com , as I thought of doing a 30th birthday party, but even though this is a good wesite that would come in very handy for many people, it just didn't really intrest me much. So then I started looking at www.myheritage.com . I decided to sign up for this and have a look, as it looked quite interesti...
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It is now week 3 and after today's lecture I am now for the first time starting to panic and feeling a bit over whelmed. Not sure how I am ever going to complete the next task, not only for this unit but also my other units as well. Don't know what I have gotten myself into here. However I haven't given up quite yet, I need to create an event ready for my next tutorial class I am thinking of maybe a 30th birthday party so here we go !!!!!!!!

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Oh my god I finally did it!
I never thought I could create my own website let alone a blog page
Well miracles do happen!


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