Day THREE

First session today we "mined" using a cookie. We had to buy "land" (cookies) and tools (toothpick/paperclips). This was a lot of fun! I think it would be a great activity to help students use critical thinking skills and match skills.

Session two: PowerPoint basics and beyond. I already knew most of the things we talked about, but it was great to brush up on the basics. I did like how we learned to write our text in the notes panel to speed up the process! Also it was good to learn how to make your own slide designs because I couldn't remember how to do that.

Session three: Google Maps and Google Earth. This was SOOOOOO cool! I did not know that you can make your own google.map! I made one about my life during the tutorial. I was able to make different layers on the map and edit the icons. I think it would be fun to show this on the first week of class to let my students get to know me, and maybe i could have them do a project with it as well.
I also learned some things I didn't know about google earth! I found out how to go into the 360 photos that google earth has all over the world. I really would like to show some of those images in my class especially some neat ones I found in Puerto Rico. We may not be able to really travel there, but it's fun to virtually travel and would give the students a better understanding of where places are and what they look like from a "street view".

Session four: We did a reading activity in which we read a passage and chose a sentence that we liked. We then wrote that sentence on a strip of paper and worked within a group to arrange our sentences in a order to write a "poem". It turned out to be a really fun activity! I think I would use this because I saw value in looking for "important" sentences and being able to see what the point of a passage is about. Our group came up with a pretty cool poem I must say haha.