Web album

I added a few pictures from a Pittsburgh Steelers game and a picture of my wife and kids at Disney World two years ago. If you haven't noticed I am a huge Steelers fan. The link to my album is :http://www.photoshop.com/user/Mferguson/?galleryid=5ba5d1c54858479bb3f4f33155f68903&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC

Photoshop Express

I had alot of fun playing with photoshop express. The tools were very user friendly and this is an account that I will use again.


http://www.photoshop.com/user/Mferguson/?galleryid=443db1c2e7554f56859199fc283a1a5d&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC

Crappy graphic

I felt that this was the easiest graph by far to create and I could see it having a wide range of use in the classroom. Using Venn diagrams is a great way to show how data can crossover into different fields. The link to my crappy graphic is http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/?id=2740

Online graphics

What I found about West Virginia compared to the national average is that we are consistently behind the national average in the years from 2000 to 2005. Looking at the trends it seems as if the state declined for several years before rebounding somewhat in 2007. The graph to the left shows the NAEP trends.

What I can conclude from the data is that West Virginia has one of the lowest income per capita and has the lowest number of IEP's. The graph to the right illustrates this conclusion.

The data for the NAEP chart was found on the following website: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/profile.asp

The data for the IEP vs. Income Per Capita was found on two different sites. Theincome data was found on the following website:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html

The IEP data was found on this site:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/overview/table10.asp

To create both of these graphs I used the suggested Kid's Zone website: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/

Image Capture

The program that I used for this assignment was Microsoft Paint. I saved my graphic as a jpeg file, and the size was 21.3 KB with the dimensions of 774 x 189. I acquired my graphic from the my school home page and the Acuity website using the print screen key. I then cropped the link to the Acuity testing and the log in areas for the user name and password.

Currently, at my school we are using Acuity as standardized test practice prior to WESTEST to acquire benchmarks. I felt this graphic would be beneficial to show students how and where to log in to the Acuity site.

These types of images are a wonderful tool for creating 'How to' guides for the students. In addition to showing them how to log in to websites, I could also create instructions for various software programs. For example, I could create an instruction guide for Microsoft PowerPoint or Word and could insert actual screen captures so they could more easily follow the instructions. These types of instructions would especially benefit students that are visual learners.

My graphic is posted above.

Desktop image

I thought that the human brain would be a great image to upload for this assignment. The parts of the brain that have arrows are the areas of the brain that is used for different styles of learning.

Reading Response to Edgar Dale

I understand what Edgar Dale was meaning when he created the Cone of Experience but after reading I see how much it has been misinterpreted or misrepresented in other studies. I do agree with the cone but I feel it is somewhat out of date with new technology and media. My narrative response is linked below.

Narrative

ftp Experience

I had a considerable amount of trouble with the FTP assignment, so it goes without saying I have no experience at all with FTP. The biggest problem I had was that I was trying to do this assignment at my workplace and they have firewalls that don't allow file transfers so I thought it was a FTP problem. Below is a link to my FTP document.


http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/mferguson/ferguson_ftp.doc

Resume

Hello, I hope my resume is sufficient for the course assignment. I must say that this is the first time I have ever done a resume where I have a lot of good experiences and education. This was a great assignment for technology as well as self awareness. I have linked my resume above. The URL is listed (and linked) below:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc4wmsht_0hm23dzf6