Personality Type

My personality type is ESFJ. ESFJ stands for Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging. I recieved 33% on Extraverted, 38% on Sensing, 38% on Feeling, and 22% on Judging. My personality type is categorized as being "The Caregivers".

Yes I do think students have different learning styles because of their personality types. Their personality is what defines most people and depending on what personality you have it could determine your will to be motivated or your desire to learn. I think peronality can affect learning styles just as learning styles can affect a student's personality. I would definitly use this survey in my classroom to help decifer between the different personality traits of students in my class room and how their minds operate. By the survey I could see how well they interact with others and see their outlook on life and how they percieve things as a whole.

Spreadsheet ETEC 424

Spreadsheets, in my opinion, are used to organize information for charts, activities in classrooms, budgets and etc. I recently used a spreadsheet to do my schedule for all of my colleague's hours and days of the week that they need to work.

Advantages of spreadsheets, again, are great in keeping you organized for any assignment and also has cool and interesting tools and techniques to use when designing your spreadsheet.

According to the Meaningful Learning With Technology Textbook, the three primary functions of spreadsheets are storing, calculating, and presenting information. I think these function are well defined for the use of spreadsheets because those are the basic functions that I use when I am creating my spreadsheet. So I think the author chose a good foundation in chosing these functions.

I would definitely use spreadsheets in my classroom to collaborate my activities with and of course apply to my lesson plans. Spreadsheets are a great technological device to use in the classroom and very easy way to make your class room teaching go more smoothly for you and your students.

Intake on Inspiration video and response to the text...

On Inspiration I found that it's basically a form of technology that sets a foundation for any classroom. It seems to be very convienient for teaching techniques in the classroom such as over head informationals, lesson plan presentations, and any other ideas you may have for its use. It's great for organization and outlining your specific goal for each class day. I would use Inspiration to help my lesson plans have a more clear and concise objective and an easier way for my stidents to follow this convienient use of technology.

Organization and planning writing would make the best use of technology in my classroom. I am going to be a high school math teacher and think this method would benefit me the most. However, my content area being math it's harder for writing to be incorporated into my lesson plan but I think organization planning would be the best option for me. Activities would include concept maps braintstorming along with other computer-based concept tools. During writing, I would help students help each other by having them get into small groups where they could elaborate and brainstorm before writing together. After students finish their assignments I could use technology tools such as inspiration and peer feedback writing tools by posting students work on the internet source, related to school, to have other students respond: sort of like e-college. The first time I had to teach some one how to do a math problem I was in the same math class with them and was very nervous about assisting them at first. I had insecurities about not helping them find the correct answer. However, once I got it and tutored them I felt much better and a sign of relief because they actually understood what I was saying and trying to convey to them. I also learned that teaching them helped me understand the information in ways that I could better understand it and I then became more familiar with the information.