Rene’s thoughts…

It has been 13 weeks of ICT, and i must say that i really enjoyed the workshop. I have learnt many new things that i hope to use when i am teaching. I re-did my personal competency test to see how much i have improved. Check it out, you might be surprised. Personal Competency Test. I have scored mainly in the 4’s which is surprising because i only really scored 1’s & 2’s in the first quiz. Mark has taught me many things which have been valuable. I feel that my strengths now are inspiration, powerpoint, photostory etc. My weaknesses that i have to work on is definately excel. It is a simple program to use but i have trouble remembering all the formulas. I will definately have to do another course in that before i go on and teach in schools. Over all i really enjoyed this workshop. We actually did items in this workshop that are relevant to schools and teaching. It was definately not a waste of time like others workshops i had to attend.

Trek 2007… Here is my Photo story. It is title Trek 2007, it is the shortened name for my tour i ventured on last year whilst i was in America. I hope you enjoy it and get a glimpse of what i saw.

This week in ICT i worked on my photostory. I did not get it finished, so i saved the wrong copy and took it home! I went to open up the program on my computer but my computer failed so i had to go and work another house to finish it. There  is an additional name on my photostory presentation, this is the person that helped me with opening the program; he also gave me some advice on the presentation and how to  make it better. It is finished now and im really happy with it. Some of the music may not match but i dont mind i still think it looks good.

This is my powerpoint presentation, it represents my inspiration mind map that i completed for portfolio item 6. Powerpoint was quite easy to use, i have been using this program for a while now. I have used the program during high school and for one of my presentations in university. It is simple and fun to use. I enjoyed making this presentation.

Week 12 in ICT was dedicated to Photo Story 3. Mark showed us the basics of the program. It is a simple program that looks very easy to use. Im looking forward to making my story. It is based on my favourite places i visited in America. I think i will complete this task at home on Sunday so that if there is any changes i can fix them up on Wednesday which will be the last lesson of ICT. I’ve had a lot of fun in this course, i have learnt quite a few techniques that i think will help me in my career as a teacher.

This week in ICT there was no real new information handed out. We had extended time to hand in our inspiration mind maps so most people in the tutorial were working on that. I had already finished mine but i experienced some issues in uploading the mind map to the blog. I had to ask for help and it took about 3 or 4 times to finally get the mind map loaded properly onto the blog. It is finished now so im very happy.

I researched interactive whiteboards. It was an interesting topic to do, i thoroughly enjoyed doing the mind-map. Inspiration is an easy, user friendly program. This is mind-map, im quite proud of it. 

Inspiration is an a great program that allows children and adults to create anything from diagrams to documents. It is very simple to use and in some ways very similar to microsoft word. Pictures can be used for headings and there is a range for magnificant colours to be used. I am quite enjoying doing portfolio item 6 it allows for my creativity to be shown.

This week in ICT we were finishing off the our excel spreadsheets. I found it very interesting with all the formulas that were applied to the spread sheet to do every calculation needed for a gradebook. This weeks portfolio item is a mind map of our choice on any topic. I have chosen to do interactive white boards – or smart boards. Im really looking forward to using inspiration. I have download the free trial on my macbook. It is very interesting to use because of how simple and easy to follow. I hope that my mind map is colourful and interesting.