I may be BAD, but I am pefectly good at it. I cannot pretend to be anything but weak at technology (as detailed on previous blogs) overall, but am fairly thrilled at my small improvements with the assignment on emerging technology. Not only was it easier for me to manipulate the technology a little during this assignment, but I found a real resource in freenursetutor.com and used it to create a game for my Leadership class on delegation, a topic which is difficult for students to remember! I had tried to create a rebus on the topic, based on the itunes app" The Rebus Show" but that was beyond my capacity. Then I realized that I needed to use the the tools on freenursetutor to create an interactive game on the nursing delegtion topic I have previously assigned as a paper. As Pearl Bailey said it: "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
As a result of spending weekends working on the different assignments for AIL 600, I can do a few things that will really help me work smarter and help students retain diffficult or essential but boring content. As a mater of fact, I am perfectly good at inserting webpage links into Powerpoint and having them work. That was not a small thing to me as I always had to endure the distraction of entering url's before during class.
I am now perfectly good at saving non-Office files such as videos, audios, and pictures in a few other formats. I have a small clue. I am also exploring having fewer paper files. All of these details are outside my usual frame of refence as a big picture person. Cannot help but enjoy the irony
of ME, the big picture person, handling some details of technology! Always delegated that one!
Sincerely, FunnyValentine 51
delegated that one before.
