Personality- My personality type is ENTJ or "Fieldmaster" or "Executive". The description of my attributes, strengths, and weaknesses showed that I have a specific way of learning, comprehending, and absorbing certain information. For this reason, I think every personality type has their own requirements for filtering information. Therefore, it is obvious that students, who are each of their own personality type, will in fact learn differently. They may be auditory, visual, or hands on learners, or a combination of the styles, depending on their personality type. This could help me to know my students better by using different methods and approaches to connect with the different learning styles of the students. I can accommodate their way of learning by using more than one style interchangeably and focusing on the ways that work best. I could also give this test at the beginning of the semester to know which learning types are in my classroom to begin with. This would give me insight to understanding different perspectives in learning and in teaching.

Spreadsheets- I think that Excel could be used for so many more projects, assignments, and lesson planning than the run-of-the-mill data based spreadsheets that it is known for. I had no idea this program could do all of this cool stuff. I really liked how it can make your worksheet balanced and the material equidistant. It was easy to add pictures, use colors, add text, use the toolbar, and manipulate the information. It is definitely a useful program in more ways than I was aware of. I can see many uses for it in the classroom and especially liked the ability to be creative with a blank format.

As a teacher, we use spreadsheet as yet another approach to learning. It can be a dynamic tool for visually illustrating or constructing a lesson, for grading and tabulating scores, or for a multitude of other reasons. As compared to a calculator, Excel can total several numbers at once, we don't have to type each number- only highlight certain sections, and we can formulate sections to remember calculations.

According to the text, the three main functions of spreadsheet are storing, calculating, and presenting information. These are definitely valuable assets to a teacher and can be used interchangeably to promote learning. While "presenting" could encompass almost anything, I thought graphing, providing visual reference, and constructing were also useful facets of this program. In addition, the use of spreadsheet enhances the speed of many operations which is also be an important function. Overall, I think Excel Spreadsheet is the perfect way to cultivate an idea from creation to fruition.

I thought the Inspiration software was an innovative and interesting way to add creativity and organization to education. I think students can benefit from seeing the same idea in different presentation styles, as I am a visual learner myself. It is also important for the student to be able to learn computer skills, such as graphing, slide show presentation, and other general computer graphic skills for the modern day workplace. I liked the way a teacher could organize thought into flow charts or add color and pictures to differentiate ideas. This seems like it would be helpful in project organization, group projects, brainstorming as a class, and overall creativity. I think the customizable templates would be relevant to both students and teachers alike.

I think blogging makes best use of technology in the classroom. Not only does creative writing inspire individual thought, but blogging also creates a space for student to teacher or student to student interface. Students could help each other during writing with linking their pages together and responding to each other's blogs, as we are doing. It is also a way to evaluate quickly, and efficiently provide instant feedback to the writer. Students could collaborate, edit, ad revise each others' posts. I think using blogging as a journal or a lesson tool would be beneficial.

I had to give a speech over vital signs for a class last semester. I definitely knew the material better after I had prepared myself for the speech. Even after I gave the speech, I felt even more confident about the subject and easily tested over it soon after.