Going to the next step! TECH 102

This evening I have been reading and watching videos about the first  and second part of what is going to be TECH 102. There are the parts I have already done.

• What is a file.
• How do we create a new file.
• What do we store information in a file.
• How do we change or put a new name in a file.
• How to delete a file
• How to restore a file from the recycling bin.

I also could read and watch videos about:

• What is a browser.
• types of browsers.
• How to serch in the internet.
• How to copy and paste information of a web page. 

Like many of us, I am the one that uses all these tools day by day to work, to search information about a specific issue and to get in contact with people through the internet. 

However  it is always important to remember how to use them. When we use these tools all the time, we do that automatically and we don't pay attention to the different steps to do so.

The main objective of this training is to know all the steps to use a computer and the different programs it has in it in order to use them in our classrooms. Also to tech those students who don't know how to use a computer.

Turning on/off a technological life...

Tomorrow I am going to give a presentation about "How to turn on and turn off" a computer in the safest way. So far it looks like it is going to be a very easy presentation because that is the first thing we learned when we decided to get into a "technological life". However, this is very important to my training because the trainer asked to do three questions in order to give our classmates the day of the final test. So I have to do a very good explanation about that, and see if my colleagues can understand me correctly. When you are in a learning process any step you do is important, no matter how easy it could be seen.

Helping tools.

Dear colleagues I share with you this website for you to see and I hope you use it. There are lots of tools to help you teach. And they are FREE!
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

First Reflection

Hello everyone!
 As I have read in many blogs of my colleagues, all of us are becoming a real good work group. I like that! Many of us know how to handle the new technology tools. Others know a little, and there are some that now have a new experience with it. Whatever our knowledge base is, we are working together... we are a team! Team of work, team of real colleagues/friends that have only one goal.
 Which is: TO GROW AS TEACHERS EVERY DAY!
Sandra dice:

Teachers and teaching quotes

• “Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.”
• “Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
• “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
• “A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
• “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
• “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
• “The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
• “There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly”

We are not the only ones!

Two teachers from Egypt getting trained in technology....
At least we don't have to dress like them  ; ) Right?. 

Here we are!

Teachers working hard on a vacation day! grrrrrrrrr