The Kid Fit Challenge, group project came together in the end and the overall wiki creation looked fantastic. I was thankful for the priviledge to work with other students studying EDN113 and as a result I have formed great friendships. This unit has tested my technology skills and has pushed me completely outside my comfort zone. However I have learnt the importance of technology and impact it can create in a classroom and to student's individual learning. From studying  EDN113 I will take m...

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As you know my task was to create the 'Student page,' and to begin with I was a little overwhelmed by the layout of the wiki so I decided to start with typing my information onto my page first, and then look at the design and other elements later. The information was aimed at the age level of Year 5/6,that introduced students to the topic as well as explaining the task and the resources that they will be using to complete their exercise challenge. The introduction discussed the importance of ...

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For our groups wiki the page that I was responsible for was the student page. At first I wasn't sure on what to include on this page but after speaking to Hayley I became clear on the purpose of the student page. Student page needed to include resources that the student's could use to complete their exercise challenge these resources also had to relate to Niya's teacher page. However our group hadn't really discussed what resources we were going to use or how we would incorporate them in to o...

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Task 3 involves completing a group task where we create a small sharable educational resource on an educational topic of our choice.

For this task I selected to be in a group that included the following team members: Niya, Hayley and Amy
Our first contact with each other was through email when introducing ourselves. Once we had done this it took some time but we started to get down to business first deciding on a topic. Suggestions were made such as designing a lesson on a frogs cycle however...

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For this assignment we were required to format our references using the program EndNote. I have previously worked with endnote and had the program already installed on my computer, however I couldn't remember how to use the programe. So to refresh my mind I referred to the website 'Living and Learning with technology' and printed two pdf's 'Endnote Data Entry' and 'EndNote Reference Types.' These were great guides that refreshed my mind on how to use endnote and I was able to get started on r...

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For task two I was required to select a topic that I thought was interesting as a teacher, and with the use of different search engines research how technology might be used for teaching and learning the topic in the classroom. The topic that I selected for this assignment was how technology can be used to improve Mathematic skills in the classroom. My first task was to find one of each of the five resources that had some relation to my topic Mathematics and technology. I first started out se...

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Well my assignment is due tomorrow so I hope all goes well. I asked my peer review partner to do a second evaluation on my site as I had nothing up for the first review and she said that it was great but suggested to cope the youtube website page and paste it to my website to provide an visual view of my social media Youtube. I thought this was a great idea and I have now added it to my website, thanks Isabella :) 

Cheers 

Penny    

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Yes I finally did it, I have now created my website page for task 1B :) 

I have put in some long hours trying to play catchup to finish my assement which is due Friday, but feel I now have it under controle. I found that most of my time was wasted on tryiny to get things to link and work and also the playing with the layout of the page. The putting together of this assignment was a little challenging, as it was hard to link my idea with my channel, and the using of the correct words to explai...

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Wow it's been a long time since I posted my first blog, but I am now concentrating on the second half of the first assessment.

Today I spent some time researching and exploring social networks in preparation for my task 1B assessment. For this assessment I have to select a type of social network and create something from using the social site. The first part involved in this task is learning how to use the social network site and discovering what it has to offer. Once I have mastered the site...
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Wow I have just created my own website I'm so proud of myself.

One of the units that I have to complete as part of my course is EDN113 Living and learning with technology and for my first assignment I had to create a website and blog. I have to admit I found the thought of this a little overwhelming as I'm not the best with technology let a lone creating my own website. But with helpful hints and support from my lecturers and tutor I have been successful in my website creation. I hope you like...
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