Practice makes perfect

This week I learned A LOT. I worked on the practice ATC as well as my productivity tools. I read about academic software in chapter 6 and watched a video about GIS. I took the ATC last year but it was good to get a refresher on some of the skills. For example, I always forget how to make those bar graphs in Excel. I’m nervous that when I take the ATC it’s going to take me longer than 50 minutes since I’m not used to working with MACS. The productivity tools were neat because I could actually see myself using all 3 of the ideas I came up with. One of the ideas I actually stole from MY 10^th grade English teacher. I’ll admit though that I wasn’t crazy about Inspiration, it seemed like too much trouble just to make a concept web. GIS seemed like a great tool, but wouldn’t go to much use in my future English classroom. One piece of software I did like that was in the reading was Oregon Trail. I played that in elementary school and got a lot out of it.