Friday, April 3, 2015

Week 13 - Student Presentations: Karrie, Krystal and Kim

K to the K to the K was all OK with me.

Karrie showed us how to keep ourselves safe from malware, spyware, viruses, phish, bugs, worms and other nasties. Krystal shared an educational game site called Turtle Diary and Kim sampled some Google Chrome extensions.



Karrie started by telling us about her background as a MicroSoft Systems Engineer before she started in the Education Technology program. Karrie started and ended her presentation with the reminder "to be a personal firewall". Karrie had a clear agenda and list of objectives and used Padlet and a TedEd presentation she had created. I found her presentation contained plenty of useful information.

Krystal set up an assignment on TurtleDiary for the class and used Padlet to have us share what games we had investigated on the TurtleDiary site. I had played a puzzle game for 1st graders and a math game for 2nd graders. I especially enjoyed the math game and thought it was a great way for children to learn how to solve word problems. Krystal did a wonderful job in showing us how to use the dashboard, navigation bar, and how to generate reports and graphs.

Kim had some difficulty with her audio which made it hard to follow along with her presentation.
Kim used tabs in Nearpod to organize, by day, the media and other files that an instructor would use for a lesson. I thought this was a great tool to know. Kim also showed us where to find and download Extensions in Google Chrome. My question regarding the recent article by Google in the New York Times about the security issues some extensions pose was answered by implying that if thousands of people download the extensions then they must be alright.

After not being able to hear Kim very well, I was reminded to do an audio check with and without a microphone.


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