Personal Goals Reflection

1.)http://aidanraquel.wikispaces.com/Personal+Goals
Quizstar, Glogstar and Scribd are all great resources. They are all very easy to use and their websites even easier to explore. Glogstar is such a creative way to display information. You can make collaborative posters on anything as teachers to help assist/ be an introduction to a lesson. Or even just have it on the projector/smart board screen while teaching. It is a way to display information in a way that keeps the kids attention. There are many frames and themes to choose from to add to the vividness of the slide. And it is so easy to use that I would be able to use it in my classroom of preschoolers and also teach them how to use it for different lessons, projects or activities going on throughout the year. You can incorporate different languages for a language lesson and glogstar just makes the pictures pop and come to life with the different frames and colors. I really liked using this program and I hope you enjoy my glogstar poster displayed on my wiki. I still think that quizstar is such an amazing resource for the classroom. If I was to use quiz star in the classroom I would be able to make up my own quizzes for my students and document that they took the quiz and review their answers and what not. I can make it that much more exciting for the students and for myself to make up the quizzes by adding pictures, music and other multimedia to my quizzes. This program is interactive and creative. I am bilingual. I speak Spanish and English so I really enjoy the fact that quizstar can make the quizzes in multiple languages. This allows me to broaden the culture of my students through the use of different languages. If we were having a Spanish lesson that day. I could make a quiz in Spanish and English; which is a new and innovative way for the students to take the quiz. Learning doesn’t always have to be repetitive and boring. And quizstar is a resource that proves that. I also like the autonomy it gives the students by allowing the students to complete their quiz and then review it after. I really like the features that quizstar has to offer and I think is a resource that I can use as an advantage for myself as a teacher and even more for my students. Technology in the classroom is becoming more and more advanced and I believe this program quizstar is an example of that. Even though the quiz I made was simple and just a way to show my knowledge of the program,quizstar can be used as such a resource and beyond. It is really a great program to incorporate into the classroom and super easy to use. Scribd was also a very easy tool to use. And the program is so up to date that people can add comments to your documents and read them in real time. I think this is a great place to post lesson plans so that I would be able to get feedback and comments on what other people thought about the lesson, what I can do to improve the lesson and general as well as specific feedback on any documents I submit. A very useful tool for educators. I will be going back to use all of these programs in my future classroom.

This assignmenmt taught me how to just use these resources to the best of my ability and just keep on learning about more resources that i can add to my classroom to help the students and let them get the most out of what i am teaching to them.