Reflective Blog - Week 8

Reflective Blog – Week 8

I have really enjoyed this whole class.  It is hard to say what the biggest impact was for me.  I think it is probably the podcast because I could not get down that you could only use one picture and talk while the people reviewing could only see the one screen.  I will now change because I am very curious to figure out what else is out there that I will be able to use in a classroom or in everyday life.  I really enjoyed the Wiki that I created because it allows for recipes that I use all the time.  I can keep them in one spot online and can de-clutter my cabinet of recipe books.  I think while I am in school again.  I should learn about as much technology as I possibly can so that when a student talks about something electronic I can relate to what they are saying and can communicate better with them.  

Some “Aha” moments was again, the podcast and wiki projects.  I was pretty familiar with the bookmark site, blog, and web site projects but the podcast and wiki projects were pretty hard for me to grasp.  Now that I have grasped the main concepts to them I think they are now one of my favorite technologies.

I liked the blog site because it allowed us to look at our thoughts and others thoughts on their sites.  I will probably continue to use the blog to keep up with my goals.  With it is in writing, I should not venture from my final goals and I will continue to stay up with them.  The more you see them the better they stay in your mind.

Blog Reflection # 7

Blog Reflection #7 – iGoogle –do you?

This week has opened my eyes on how cool technology can be.  I wanted to teach the value of numbers.  I wanted to learn as much as possible and just spend time learning it so that if I received a question, I would know how to answer it.  The podcast was fairly easy since we just did this last week.  I wanted to give the personal touch to a lesson online, so I did the podcast.  Children today seem to relate to television and/or games so I thought the podcast would give it some updated way to think about numbers.  They probably didn’t even know they were learning anything. 

I also created a web site to hold it all together.  I went to weebly and created this site.  I added my lesson plan, chalkboard questions, and objectives, in class procedures, online procedures, assessment, and vocabulary words.  I thought that this all would be helpful information for the student to access while learning.  I wanted to also add a game dealing with numbers but ran out of time. 

After watching the videos, my mind is still the same.  I can still see how we have to learn as much as possible about technology so that we can educate in the current times.  We, as teachers, must keep learning if we want to encourage the students to want to learn.  The more excited we are about learning all the new gadgets and products out there, the more the students will be motived to learn too.  Technology is the new way of getting things done; now we have to adjust to it.