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!