USA was awesome

Had a fantastic time!!

The adobe MAX conference was super fun!
It was really great to meet people from all over the world who are passionate about technology.
We sat next to one guy from Disney and another guy who has his own web app company with employees across the USA. They use a lot of Skype to get their work done and he said it's great because he has some of the most talented people working with him.

Totally loved New York, LA and Vegas. We even went through Salt Lake City and Chicago on the plane. Pretty neat to see so much different stuff.

We recorded heaps of video footage and took tons of photos! :D
I was really inspired by all the fantastic museums and galleries we visited.
Also by the amazing scenery. The Las Vegas mountains and New York's Central Park were a highlight.

Also bought some really great cookbooks for cake decorating!
Hoping to make some amazing cupcakes!

Work wise have been playing around with more web design and flash. Have been looking into Silverlight as well, in conjunction with Sharepoint/Sharepoint Designer. Starting to make a few demo sites to showcase things that I create.

Doing a lot of reading like usual, watching a lot of Ted Videos and doing some MIT free courses.

Tammy Out
That's all from me.

Sharepoint & Flash & Customer Experience

Lately I have been playing around with Sharepoint and Flash....
I am going on a trip to the USA in a few weeks...hoping to find some new inspiration! :D

Currently interested in
*Customer Experience
*Sharepoint
*Flash
*Silverlight
*ASP.NET 3.0
*Volleyball

USA Trip Goals

• VLOG once a day. Upload to youtube.
• Collect heaps of everyday items.
  
• Take photos & upload Deviant Art
• Skateboard in a mall
• Attend the Adobe Max Web Conference
• Attend the Oracle OpenWorld Conference
• See Statue of Liberty
• Eat a Bagel
• Go shopping at 2am
• Play an old school casino slot machine
• Eat a Lemon Pie at a dinner
  

Yammer

I love Yammer.

I would love to organise a charity fundraiser.

I love learning about new technologies. Webby awards, TechCrunch top 50!

I'm in Melbourne!

You can see that most of my old posts were about being a pre-service teacher but now I've stepped into the corporate world....

I'm currently working as a Graduate Programmer / Tester / Developer / Support Personnel !

But I'm still extremely pro for encouraging students to study ICT at school and university!
I really think more needs to be done to encourage girls as well.

I've been thinking about the different things I would like to do this year in terms of volunteering, in the past I've done mostly tutoring and working with students. I still really want to do more of that! I miss it a lot.... I am going to be attending the business chicks breakfast as a volunteer next month so that will be great :D

Have been having such an amazing time in Melbourne but, tomorrow we are going to the snow :D Can't wait!

Also mindmapping ! Found this amazing mindmapping tool yesterday called mindjet... best one I have seen so far (and I have seen way to many) I wish I new about it last year! I am going to start using it at work and meetings.

Ciao
Tammy

Flash Animation and Games

During prac I have been lucky enough to teach Flash and Photoshop.... two of my favourite programs :]

Will also hopefully include Acid for music and Audacity....

Students need to create a storybook in Flash for children.
I'm really excited for this project and I think they will do well with all the skills they have learnt...
I predict they will need a refresher activity after the holidays as they will have forgotten so much :[

I have been collecting many many resources for the upcoming internship. I hope everything goes well and I am really looking forward to it :]

Also, we won't have computers because we are getting Moed...teaching computing without computers..what a challange!

Any way I'd also like to say hi Dad because he reads my blog :]

Have a great week
Love Tam

Too see an example of one of my student's work go here:
Ryan's Game

Power Teaching

Power teaching looks really good.
I saw a few clips on
You Tube so I think I'm going to give it a try.

+ I intend to use "Class.....yes" and "Teach....ok"
+ The points system..."extra credit, dextra credit"
+ Modelling hand gestures for students to follow

I really wonder if it will work.

Work =
1. Student engagement
2. Students learn facts and can recall information long-term
3. Power teaching can be extended from basic recall to critical thinking

Pre-Service Teacher - Final Prac+Internship

Hello!

I have decided to document my final practicum and internship as a pre-service teacher using QSITE :]

I begin on the 25th of August!! :]

I'm really excited

My two areas of teaching are computing and history, but I haven't yet dicovered which students I will be teaching.

On another note...recently I have been trying to decide which news site I want to recommend to my future students. For a long time I have been a fan of News.com.au , It has stories from all the Australian newspapers.. I like the feel of the site, the use of pictures and video and the fact it's a .com.au ... BUT on the opening night of the Olympics they failed to inform me about the Russia-Georgia conflict.

Not only did Sky News tell me 3 days earlier, they even had video.

What news site do you recommend for the classroom? Google News? Sky News? BBC? FOX? ABC? BTN?

For tech news so far WebbAlert wins hands down

I'm going to finish off with a lolcat from Hobotopia! -Tammy