Monday, February 9, 2009

YETC II

Today in the YETC, I viewed and explored more of the YETC homepage. I was able to view many different pages of clip arts and fonts. I have also been exploring the phun website which is really a great way to incorporate teaching different subjects especially physics. The website can be an amazing tool to help teach our students as long as we fully understand the benefits and operations of these websites.

Incorporating these different programs into my classroom as a teacher, I feel will be very useful for me and for the students. The clip arts and fonts help make the material presented more interesting and fun for the children to be involved in. The clip art can be a fun way for the students to be able to use in their different creations of writing and publishing. The phun website is very beneficial because it will be fascinating for the students to be a part of and they will want to be able to understand why the different objects do the different things they do. This interest will help open up a door of teaching for the teacher. This website would be very beneficial in teaching physics and why things in the world around us do the things they do.

I am fascinated by the variety of materials that are available to us! I am really grateful for this opportunity to be able to research and find out about more that is available and wish that I would have known of these different resources earlier.

Monday, February 2, 2009

YETC Experience

Our class today in the YETC was very beneficial! We were introduced to so many new options of using technology that I never even knew was available. As a future teacher, the information that we were introduced to in class can help us to incorporate more so technology in the classroom which will really help our students to progress with technology.

This class has really opened my eyes to what is available to me as a teacher. I have always felt that as a teacher it would be so difficult trying to come up with the lesson plans everyday but now I feel a lot better about being prepared to teach my future classes.

The teacher link website seems to be very useful for all teachers. It brings up a lot of links that will connect you to different ideas and lesson plans that can help you to be a better, more efficient teacher, who is up to date on the changes of technology through the years. This website I think I will use very often as a teacher and also as a future teacher.

Yes, I think another lesson at the YETC Lab would be very useful.