1.here is my personal-compitency-test. after re-doing this i have realised that i have expanded my knowledge and skills and feel confident using the majority of programs. i am generally a lot stronger this time around. i now feel confident using inspiration, excell, publisher, webquests and photo story. i will definately use these programs as a technique when teaching to enhance children’s learning and make learning fun. one area i still need to work on is creating a hyperlinked document as i am still usure of how to do this.

2. my learning in this unit will help me immensely as i will be able to use powerpoint, excell, publisher, webquests, the WWW, inspiration and photostory to teach. it will make class interesting as there is a variety of different programs to use. these programs will be great!!! 

This is my photostory. It is a story about myself, and shows me growing up. Enjoy!

This week i am more prepared and did most of my photo story at home. I have it on my USB so i can bring it to class and post it on my blog. I just needed to ensure it worked before posting it. This was a fun presentation to make

This week we finished off powerpoint presentations and then started a new portfolio item which is photo story. We went through how to use it and all the features it has. i didnt start putting it together because i didn’t have any photos with me but i decided i wanted to do the story on myself growing up. Photo story is a great way to teach children about history and how things change over time. It will be very useful as a teacher.

This Powerpoint Presentation is about Facebook. i enjoyed putting this together as i love playing with all the custom animations and other effects.

this week we have also been working on a powerpoint presentation which shows our research from inspiration in a different way. i love making powerpoints and an excited about all the effects powerr point presentations are a great tool to be able to use in a teaching environment as it can display information easily and can also be used by students to make small presentions from research they have done.

this week we have been working on our portfolio item inspiration. this program will be so useful for teaching as it is a way to either brainstorm or present information to a class in a fun and easy layout. this is a great program and im so glad i know how to use it!

Here is my Inspiration documentation. I chose to do my research on Facebook.  

this week we were still trying to finish off our excell gradebooks with Mark’s help. i learnt how to rank students and how to enter in a percentage. this will be such a great tool to use when i am teaching once i fully understand how to use it. we also looked at the inspiration program which i have used at school before and think it is such a fun program to use! im currently working on my mind map.

Here is my Excell Gradebook – portfolio item 5. I am still learning how to use this magnificent tool and am excited to be able to eventually use it! The grades are from a year two HSIE class.