Friday, July 29, 2011
Reflection of ED590
Upon entering this course I thought I knew a lot about technology, well I do, but I have learned so much more about which websites to you with my students, to use for my own personal use as a teacher to incorporate parents. I love that I can use a blog as one way to communicate with parents about what the student did during the week or the month. I learned how to incorporate these tools within a whole classroom. I was always nervous about incorpoarting with a group of students as some are quicker to learn the computers then some. If I was the only one in the room with twenty students I would feel overwhelmed. Having the lesson as a center makes more managable for me. I would enjoy having ipads in the room to allow the students to become engaged in the curriculum in a different way than the typical worksheet mannar.
Art and technology is very important to incorporate in edcuation today as it is a way for students to show what they know and have fun while doing so. So many people are already online hooked to a computer, districts need to meet the needs of the students learning level and not try to force these students to go back in time. Technology is here to stay and it will only get better. We all know that is students are engaged in learning the information they learn will be remembered.
I have learned so many different ways to incorporate these lessons into my classroom. I seemed to have found a use for most of the tools for m to use in atleast one project that I have incorpoarted in my classroom. Using http://www.glogster.com/ for posters, projects, writing, and other will save parents and teacher money and space to be able to have it all on one location and all you have to do is load it on to a working computer.Rather than writing notes on the board, I can use any of the online tools to make my lessons more interesting if I use any of the tools I have learned. Tools like Glogster, blogs, prezi, wikki, tagxedo, google, presentation, animoto and more. These are all amazing tools that I am so anxios to use. Now to find my classroom! Come out, come out where ever you are! I like being able to use googledocs to save my documents to avoid having to email myself or find my flashdrive. I don't have to worry about locating anything but the website. Makes my life so much simpler!
This course has taught me so much about my teaching style and how to work in technology. I am so happy I have taken this course even if it was a lot of information in one week!
Art and technology is very important to incorporate in edcuation today as it is a way for students to show what they know and have fun while doing so. So many people are already online hooked to a computer, districts need to meet the needs of the students learning level and not try to force these students to go back in time. Technology is here to stay and it will only get better. We all know that is students are engaged in learning the information they learn will be remembered.
I have learned so many different ways to incorporate these lessons into my classroom. I seemed to have found a use for most of the tools for m to use in atleast one project that I have incorpoarted in my classroom. Using http://www.glogster.com/ for posters, projects, writing, and other will save parents and teacher money and space to be able to have it all on one location and all you have to do is load it on to a working computer.Rather than writing notes on the board, I can use any of the online tools to make my lessons more interesting if I use any of the tools I have learned. Tools like Glogster, blogs, prezi, wikki, tagxedo, google, presentation, animoto and more. These are all amazing tools that I am so anxios to use. Now to find my classroom! Come out, come out where ever you are! I like being able to use googledocs to save my documents to avoid having to email myself or find my flashdrive. I don't have to worry about locating anything but the website. Makes my life so much simpler!
This course has taught me so much about my teaching style and how to work in technology. I am so happy I have taken this course even if it was a lot of information in one week!
Tagxedo
This is a great website to make for visual poems, creating writing, describing adjectives, describing students in the classroom, using words to describe characters in books that they are reading and more. I think it is a fun and creative way to show the students work.
Social Media
Social media is a tool that I use to keep in touch with friends that live far away. Social Networks is a way for people to keep up with what is going on in people's lives. I learned today more about why I should use Linkedin. It is a way for me to post my resume in hopes that employeers will see it and in turn hire me to do what I love. Teaching for me is making a difference in people's lives. Social media can be used to keep students in touch with each other as well as learning about other cultures. They can use it like pen-pals with other students from the US and or other countries.
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