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.