Week 4

I really enjoyed making up our own fairy tale in class. Being able to work on the same project with multiple people can be very useful. This program could teach students how to work together on projects, and give them the ability to work on them from home. It can also allow the teacher to see who did what on the project to prevent some students from slacking off.
Being able to create your own database is very useful in the classroom. You could create surveys to help get to know your students, or a welcome sheet for the first day of class to retain info about students and parents. This program could also be used to create tests, and because it can all be done paperless we are saving the planet! The able to link the database to anyone's email would make grading very quick and easy. All of these helpful tools are going to make our lives as teacher much easier.

week 3

Online collaboration has many uses in the classroom. It is a great tool to use all the time for assignments. As a teacher you would be able to monitor how the students are doing on their assignments. You could see who has started and who hasn't started certain assignments. Another neat thing is that you can go into their assignment and edit it if need be. This will also speed up grading times, and reduce the use of paper. It will be very easy to share the students work with his or her parents. I think this is the new wave of technology in schools, and will hopefully make life a lot easier for many of us.
Jing is one of the coolest things that we have done in class. I always wondered how you could capture images on the computer. There are so many uses for this in the classroom that I don't even know where to start. Anytime you are walking the students through a new program you could make a slide show like we did for picasa. You could use it for a powerpoint presentation to include different images or step by step instructions for something. I am very excited to use Jing more often.

New technology

I love learning new things! The poll everywhere website that we learned about in class was really neat. I always wondered how they did those text message voting on American Idol! I think it would be a really neat thing to incorporate into a lesson every now and then. Of course there may be some controversy about using cell phone in class, but I think it would be worth the battle. The students would be learning new things without even knowing they where learning. I also think the picasa would be a great way to get to know everyone in class on the first day. Not only does it teach them how to use search engines but it would require them to put some outside thought into their project. They are many ways that we can use both applications in our own classrooms one day!

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Shift Happens

As a teacher I will encourage technology to be taught in the classroom. I have plans on getting grants from both the state and federal government to receive computers and programs for the classroom. I feel it is crucial to teach students how to use computers and to keep up with the changing technology. Things change so fast and so often that it is easy to fall behind. I believe that students should be taught new technology every year in school.
This video opened my eyes to the rapid changing world of technology and how far behind the United States is compared to other countries. It is hard to picture where we will be 10 years from now, but at the rate the world is going we may be more like the Jetsons than we ever thought possible.