I love tonight's class! It was fun, extremely educative for me, and I even got some snacks. What a pretzels! And I had to mention the skittles and the kit kats. The night started with a lot of laughs. It was so much fun. After, we warmed up a little, we proceed it an IT Map and some tool time presentations of the night.
The first presentation was done by Kathy, Angela, and Julia. I have to say that I was amazed by the way these three people were able to delivered such an outstanding presentation via WIMBA from three different places. The flow was so smoth that I couldn't even believe they were in different locations. As I said in class, this is proof of how far technology has taken us and how technolgoy can be used for positive things. Their IT Mapping presentation was very good. It took me back on time. I recalled the first floppy disks that came out. Some of the were the size of a coputer screen. Also, I learn about sentios, which I dind't know about, and Reading Rainbow, as well as Dr. Rogers took me back on time with good memories.
The second presentation was done by Audra. She did a tool time presentation in Sketchpatch with geometry as a subject matter. I had no idea what Sketchpatch was, but now I know. I specifically like the Hide/Show action button feature, as well as the graphs. I thought it was going to be a very helpful and fun tool for my 16-year-old daughter to know and learn about. I believe Audra said that Absegami has this tool in the computers, so she thought that probably my daughter knows about it already. However, I wanted to mention it to her anyway, just in case. I am certain that she can certainly utilize it very well.
Susan did the third presentation, which was about Facebook. As you all know, I don't like Facebook; therefore, I don't have an account. Yes, I know that a lot of people use it, but it has never been my thing. Well, I promised that I would have an account by next week. Did I said that? Well, Susan's instructions in how to set up an account, as well as the privacy settings and many other things that you can do in Facebook were very helpful to me, and I will definetely put it in practice soon. One of the things that I like the most was to learn that I can set up a picture setting of 180 x 540 pixels, which looks bigger. So, let see how I do.
Finally, Melissa finish the night with a great presentation. She introduce Prezi to the class. Some of us already knew what was Prezi, but not me, so I was truly amazed with this tool. I truly like it and I would love to be able to learn it and do something with it. I am glad to learn that I can sign up for free. Yeah, as many other people, I like free stuff!!!
Gosh, next week is my turn, and I am kind of intimidated, I have to admit. All the presentations that I have seen so far have been excellent. So, I have to step up a notch. God help me!
Dear Johana,
ReplyDeleteYou will do fine on your presentation. A suggestion to make sure that there is enough content w/in the allotted time, try using "Jing" to make videos of your presentation. Susan suggested that to me & boy did it help. The amount of content that I had would have easily taken 45 min. to an hour, but the "Jing" videos really helped me downsize it quite a bit.
Good Luck w/ your Facebook set up too.
See you Wednesday,
Audra
Hi Johana,
ReplyDeleteGood luck this week! I'm looking forward to your presentation.
Setting up a personal Facebook account is actually even easier than creating a Facebook page! All you need is an email address to get started.
I also lovvvveeeedddd the pretzels that Melissa gave to us. They were so good!
-Susan