SS3 Integration

This took a lot of work, and I hope it shows. I put everything on a web page through Google Sites. First is the home page, which tells you what the lesson is about. Then on the left is a table with each web page that exists within the overall page. This includes: lesson plan, instruction sheet, student worksheet, rubric, and Excel worksheet example. This assignment truly showed me how to put together an effectice lesson plan using Excel. I realized how close I had to pay attention to the details I was giving the students, because Excel is such a step-by-step software. Also, this assignment allowed me to be creative while still adhering to state standards and ISTE standards. I hope you enjoy my website: SS3 Integration

SS2

Ok so technology is really ticking me off lately. I just wrote a post for this and I completely lost it. Plus, it took me forever to do this assignment, because I had to use my laptop (which is much slower than my desktop...it needs replaced). In addition, FTP wouldn't load on my laptop, so I had to push someone off the desktop to finish this assignment. Okay... enough ranting. This assignment was tough for me just like the first one. I do have to say (for me) this module has been one of the hardest. I have always struggled with Excel and how to use it ever since I learned how to use it.

Even though I struggled, I prevailed (I hope) and finished the assignment. I learned a lot from completing this spreadsheet. I always knew how to weight grades based on percentages, but I have never done it in something like Excel. That was the toughest part of this assignment. After doing a little research and math, however, I figured it out. Once I figured it out, all I had to do was drag that cell down the other cells and Excel automatically calculated the rest of the grades without me having to type in the formula over and over again. That is the nice part about Excel...once you figure out a formula, you can just drag it and apply it to other cells (then Excel does all of the work for you).

SS1

This was a new learning experience for me. Excel has always been one of the programs I have had the most trouble learning how to use. It's useful in situations like grade books, but it's honestly not my favorite thing to work with. I guess when I was student teaching, EDLine spoiled me. It did basically what Excel does, but automatically. In Excel, you have to come up with the formulas to calculate what you want. This would be a useful tool, however, if something like EDline were not available. It's a good way to be organized and keep track of student grades. It's also useful in completing calculations for you automatically, so you don't have to calculate everything out by hand one at a time. Here is my Spreadsheet 1.

INTEL Ranking Assignment

Here is my and Mary's INTEL Ranking assignment. To do this assignment, we e-mailed and chatted on blackboard our ideas. Mary is a special education math teacher; and since I do not have a full-time job yet, we decided to do an assignment that went along with her profession. We decided to do it on fractions- ordering fractions. Through the chatting and sharing of ideas, we worked together to create the ranking tool and site.

Photoshop

I had a lot of fun with this assignment! I'm really excited that I now know how to digitally edit photos. When my friend got married, her photographer did a lot of this with her photos. She even had one where it was all black and white except her flowers were in color. I never understood how she did it, and I thought it was probably hard to do. However, after doing it myself in a photo I uploaded, it wasn't that hard at all. Photoshop made it very simple to edit all of my images I uploaded to the site. I loved how it gave you many options of pictures you could choose from when editing to see what you're final picture would look like. I will definitely be using this site again to edit more photos (especially my wedding photos). I'm so excited to know how to use these tools.

This whole module has really helped me learn how to work with different types of images and edit them in different ways. I'm excited to take all of this new learning out with me into my school life and my personal life! Here is my photoshop album. I uploaded three different pictures and edited them in different ways.

Web Albums

I had a lot of fun with this activity. I like that there are multiple places you can store your photos online. I have a lot of my photos on Facebook, but it's nice to know there are other places my photos can be stored (just in case). I decided to use the Picassa Photo program from Google for many reasons. First, we have been working a lot with Google, and I trust it. Second, it's free and easy to download. Last, it was easy to use. I figured sticking with Google for most of the projects I do for this class would be the best decision. Here is my online album that contains a few different albums within it. I will continue to update it as more pictures become available.

Web Album

Online Graph 2

Again, I created this graph in Google Documents using a spreadsheet. It works just like Microsoft Excel, so it made it very easy to put data in and create a chart. I found the five poorest states and listed them in order from lowest to highest on the chart (beginning with Mississippi and ending with Kentucky). I wanted to show both the per capita income of each state and the number of students on IEPs. When I went to go find the number of students on IEPs on the NAEP's website, it didn't show me that exactly. When I clicked on each state, it showed me the total enrollment in the state and the percentage of students on IEPs in the state. Then I convereted the percentage to a decimal and multiplyed it into the total enrollment; that's how I got the number of students on IEPs in each state.

By looking at the graph, it varies with the number of students on IEPs vs. per capita income of each state. The highest per capita income state on the graph, Kentucky, has the most number of students on Individualized Education Plans. The lowest per capita income state on the graph (and in the country) has more students on IEPs then the three states higher than it. West Virginia, which is the second lowest in per capita income state in the country, has the least number of students on IEPs on this whole graph.