E-Books

Our assignment that is due after spring break is having a child read ebooks with you on the Internet. How you get to this is through the library. What an ebook is, is a automated book that has moving pictures and the author is reading it. What I like about an ebook is that with the author reading it you get the right way that the story is supposed to sound. The tone in the voice when the author is reading the book gives a great picture in a child's mind. I am very excited for this project. I think that this project will be a lot of fun and since I am majoring in elementary education I think that it will benefit me in the future. I plan on having my 5 year old cousin Lillian read with me. I also hope that my ebook that I will complete later on in the semester turns out good!!

Stress and Decisions (E Post)

When I first started here at FGCU I had no idea what I wanted to major in. I thought about education over and over again. Well finally my second semester I decided that is what I am going to do. Now I am in my last semester of my sophmore year and I should be starting block 1 in the fall, but I am a couple classes behind. I was originally taking 5 classes this semester but it was way to much work because 2 of them were gordon rule and the others were a lot of reading and homework. I had to drop one, which put me 3 classes behind. I really would like to start my block 1 in the fall but summer classes are so expensive. I have 75% bright futures and they do not help pay for summer classes at all. Now I am faced with the decisions of some how finding the money or being a semester behind.

First Assignment (B Posting)

Our first assignment for Intro to computer was the paper where you had to write about significant educational experience or events, it was titled A1. This first assignment was very easy. What we had to do was think of 5 stories that affected our educational experience. After we thought of these stories we had to write a paper with the introduction, the 5 stories and a conclusion. At first I thought it sounded very easy, but then once I got thinking, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write about. After thinking for a while I thought of 5 stories that were pretty stupid, because I couldn't think of anything else. My 5 stories were titled Third Grade, Growing Up, Psychology, Bright Futures and Spring 2007. My topics were very boring, I had no idea that we were going to be required to make it into a story. Like I mention in my post before this about the pictures and how they come to a story. That all originated from this assignment. During each class meeting we talk about how much more we will build up our storey and what is going to be expected from us. With my story I chose, I have no idea how I am supposed to make this into a wonderful project. Dr. Baylen has mentioned that we can change our story if we wanted to, but I have no idea what I would want to change it to. I have no great stories about school and if I do, I have no pictures. He shows stories made from other students which look wonderful and in order for mine to look like those I will definitely have to change everything about my project. I hope that if I work hard that I will be able to make my story project become an A project!!

9 Squares (B posting)

Last week we were given an assignment titled 9 Squares. When I first read all of the direction I thought that it was going to be very difficult. In this activity we had to create a 9x9 table in Microsoft Word. In this table we would have to crop 9 pictures to 150x150. While trying to crop my pictures I was unable to get them to be exactly 150x150. Every time I would try to change the size the other one would change also. My pictures ended up being 200x150 because that is all my computer would allow me to do. I hope it is not that big of a problem to affect my grade much. After a picture was placed into the 9 boxes you would have to hyperlink something that you recorded through Audacity onto the picture. What was recorded through audacity was a sentence or two describing your photo so that at the end of the project you would be able to put all of the photos in order by your recording on each picture. It is supposed to end up like a little story. During high school I took three years of computers classes and besides my pictures not cropping to the correct size I had forgotten how to shade my table again. I just knew how to do it in class but all of a sudden my mind went blank and I forgot. After going through every tab a million times I was finally able to do it, and remembered right away after I found it. But after completing this project I enjoyed it very much. What I learned while doing this project was to hyperlink. I have hyperlinked a couple of times before but not though a saved file onto a picture. It is a very neat thing to add to a picture or any object. Like I mentioned at first I was a little scared of this assignment after reading the directions in class. But after completing it, I enjoyed it very much. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be and it was fun in the mean time. Also with the step by step instruction that were given I was able to complete the assignment in a timely manor and go back over and make sure I did everything according to the list. The step by step instructions are great and would be very helpful with all assignments that are given.

Welcome!!

Welcome to my first blog! My blog page was created for one of my classes called Introduction to Computer in Education. We will be completeing projects and I will be posting information about what I have learned or also wish to learn more about. This class we will be going into depth to learn about and how to use different programs in education. This is my first time ever useing Blog and also my first time hearing about it. I am excited to post my progress through out the semester.