Bird of the Story

I'm still trying to get a lot of these assignments over with before the semester ends next week. I'm so stressed out about it. I still have a lot to do for it. Anyway, this assignment I worked on was Storybird. I like to write stories and try to write them with my own ideas, without plagiarizing. I've never actually heard of that website in my life. When I first tried it a few weeks ago, I thought that I could write my own stories on it. And also make illustrations. Unfortunately, I was never allowed to make art pictures of my own, I had to choose from what Storybird I had. I never wanted to do that, to be honest, because it made me feel like a plagiarist with someone else's artwork. I always preferred to become both an author and illustrator, like Chris Van Allsburg, just so that it would feel like I'm using my own artwork and writing than using someone else's. With this picture I've put on here, it's just showing a metaphor of Storybird. This true story of this picture are my younger siblings with those bird trainers right behind them. That was the time when we went to a Bird Festival and my younger sister won $100 for her drawing at age FOUR! That's crazy, huh? That tells me that someday, my younger sister will also want to become an author and illustrator. I just wish there was a website that had story writing and picture illustrating with it so it can teach me to become a professional author and illustrator. P.S. the story that I wrote about on storybird, is a children's story about animal friends and their names and personalities to help children learn about animals and how they can learn about names.

This information is Graphic

It might be too soon to say another thing, but I'm under a lot of stress of getting a lot of assignments done before the end of the semester. I barely got hired for working at Wal-Mart and have went through the orientation. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to handle it throughout the rest of the week, before every assignment is due. Especially this Saturday when all of the assignments for elementary technology are due including this. Anyway, this assignment I worked on is the Infographics. I wasn't quire sure how I was supposed to learn the technique from the  rubric of the assignment, especially when it comes to figuring out how to learn from the infographic and then teach it at the same time. This infographic that I created is a Venn Diagram that could teach children about joining in one or more groups of a subject. For example, the topic that I chose to analyze on is the games of Sports. And I made multiples of 1 through 13. It was really hard to get all the numbers in the different areas of the Venn diagram, but I figured it out on my own but visualizing it and making sure the numbers are positioned just right with the groups. That's also teaching children about Venn diagrams when they're learning about mathematics. I'm still not sure if this is what the rubric of the assignment has told me to do, but I hope that it's a good way of learning the picture and teaching it to children. This was taken on the Venngage website.

This is "e"mazing!

It's been quite a while for me to talk about another educational site I've learned to use, because I was busy with other classes. For example, I barely finished my Nutrition class and I'm still looking forward to eating healthy and losing a lot of weight. Anyway, the site that I learned to use for education was eMaze. I've never actually done anything like that before. As well as I've just learned about writing an educational presentation on Google Docs. As a matter of fact, I wasn't quite sure what kind of educational subject I should use as a way I could teach children about in school. But it came up to me that I should write the "e"Mazing subject on pronouns. I started learning about it myself and then it just came to me that it really is one of the best subjects in the Language Arts Core. It would also teach children that with eMaze, they can learn to do amazing things, like this picture of me when I first learned how to ride a bicycle and be in a kids parade in Mt. Pleasant of Sanpete County on the 4th of July. I'm not sure that the way I'm showing you is going to work, but I'm sure that it will be a good lesson to learn for everybody, whenever they may have learned it already or they may have forgotten all about it.

Slide into Education

I'm still not much of an online working sort of person. I usually do a lot of my work on a Word Document, PowerPoint, and Paint. I never usually learned how to use Google Docs. I never really thought that it would be handy and required to use to teach an elementary class. I've never used Google Slides before. I usually make presentations on PowerPoint, because I've been taught to use that all my life. Just like with the Google Docs assignment, I usually do typing on a Word Document. I'm just going to have to say that even adults have to slide into education. Just so that they can be able to teach children the same basics they've been taught. And also to encourage children to find the skills that they have. For example, this picture I have is my youngest sister with the former mayor of South Jordan. She made that adorable pinewood derby car to enter in the race in the Open Class competition at Country Festival. My sister won the Adorable Car award in Pinewood Derby and got to be in the picture with the mayor. That helps children to learn that they can slide into education so they can gain skills and talents of their own and use their contributions in the coming time. I made this educating presentation that I plan to use in my future classroom.

A Map on my Mind

I remember making a mind map of my very own, but I never actually tried to do it online like this Mind Mapping. Just last semester, I took a class called Elementary Art and I enjoyed it a lot, because it helped me learn that I can teach children how to do art. Sometimes, during the class, it was hard, especially when requiring to create a mind map that would work for an elementary classroom. I wasn't quite sure how this was supposed to work but I figured out how to do it and it took me like almost two hours to come up with the idea and trying to put it all together along with some pictures that would be enticingly exciting to a child in the elementary spectrum. I also learned that creating a mind map is supposed to take time to create and become official for people to understand it a lot.

Doc, Google for Me

 It almost feels like I haven't got to talk about another technology tool that I've learned to use that could be usable for teaching elementary students. I never new how to use Google Docs. The first time I've ever heard of that was when I noticed my fifteen year old sister was doing most of her homework on it. I wasn't quite sure how it can really save all your work that you make on it, because I had a feeling with all your ideas and work you make saved online would be a likely way for people scheming to plagiarize the ideas. But mostly, I wasn't quite sure how Google Docs works. All the time, I just assumed that people who were born in the 21st century know how to use that technology a lot better than any other thing. I was born in 1993 and my sister was born in 2000, the beginning of the 21st century. I guess I just assumed that only people who were either born during or barely at the beginning of the 21st century would better know how to use technology. Maybe I better stop conclusions and just get on with the fact that anybody can use Google Docs.

Symbol for You

This may be too soon to do, but I'm feeling so desperate to learn a lot of new things of technology that I could use for my future classroom with children. I'm also desperate to try to get all of these other assignments in this class done before the end of the semester. There are a lot of things that I never knew about that could be useful, like Symbaloo. It was a bit hard to get started with it and it's also time consuming to find good topics to symbolize a website. I was a little worried of trying to find good educational activities that could be appropriate for children. I just found some good sites that I thought would be great for children to look through and hopefully they learn and understand the purpose of it. I even hope that anyone who visits my Symbaloo site will understand the purposes of what I plan to teach to my future class.