Disgusting Frustration

I feel like I am being sabotaged. I felt like I was going to have a great webquest trimmed with all the high tech applications we learned. I did my jing videos, my youtube, my picasa, my poll everywhere, custom search and so on. While I was able to create all those things, they refuse to embed in my webquest. Initially I just waited for my fiance, sure it was me doing something to make the internet hate me, but it hates him as well. After asking everyone I could via email, facebook, and phone, I felt nothing but more desperation. It's 11:00 right now and I have been working since 6am... I am not sure what to do. I really want to give up and tell myself I tried but it's just not meant to be but I know I won't do that. Tomorrow after work I will desperately try to make the webquest functional if nothing else. This blog was somewhat therapeutic, while I hope no one else feels like this I am happy I could vent with you. Okay I am going to sleep.

Technology really stinks.

I was so content in my little bubble of microsoft word and solitaire.

Poetry Webquest

I am in class with you all at the moment and needed a break from working on the webquest. I know that I am making my webquest way more difficult then need be but I am sticking to my guns. Do you ever get an idea and then can't stop thinking about it? That is me at the moment. I find it a little difficult in this class to find plausible ways to encorporate technology into the grade I plan to teach. I want to teach kindergarten, and although I know computers, smart boards, and blogs are becoming evermore present; I don't know how they will navigate through a webquest. Maybe my doubts just come from my own insequrities when it comes to technology. I never grew up with video games or computers. I honestly used one computer program up until my junior year of high school, microsoft word. In my attempt to involve technology into the lower elementary grades I will be having students analyze poetry in new and differenet ways. I want gets to go beyond reading and become involve and attached to a poem, and its then I feel that they will obtain a true understanding and appreciation for poetry.