Technology Inquiry Wiki Reflection

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While creating this Technology Inquiry Page I feel that I put a lot of effort into this assignment.  I believe that I spent more time on this task than any other task that we had in Educ 331.  This took a lot of time because you had to find information about this specific question and answer it.  I have never created a wiki page before so it was something new.  The screencast was also another task that we had to fulfill in the assignment.  That was also difficult because I believe that they are difficult to do.  I am not the most technological person and for this assignment I used about four different computers to make it work. 

The value of completing this course task I believe is pretty high.  I am now familiar with many different ways that I can use podcasts to facilitate learning in my subject area and in my future career as an educator.  I have learned from this class and other classes that it is great to have many different educational tools in your teacher tool box and I feel that podcasting now can be one of mine.  I found many great ideas and ways to use podcasts in my classroom.  I presented this information also in a very different way by creating a wiki site and making a screencast to go along with it.  There were many parts to this assignment and I feel it will help me in my future career. 

This course task impacts my future career because it allows me to have new ways of presenting information to my students.  Technology can be a very useful thing to use when you are teaching if you use it write.  That is why I want to learn the best ways to use certain technology so that I use it write in my future classroom.  I believe that students will want to learn from me if I am changing things up and using different ways of teaching.  As long as I can keep students engaged I believe that teaching and helping students learn will be a lot easier.

PSA Reflection

This is a link to Kyle Homan's Blog which has our PSA on it.

PSA

I Thought that our group put a very good amount of effort into it.  There was definitely no slackers in this group.  We have all created a video before but I have never edited it in a video editor before.  Thankfully Kyle new what he was doing but I watched and gave suggestions.  This helped me learn a lit about video editing.  Plus we used a mac to edit it which was a lot different for me because I have had a PC all my life.  This was something new that I have never done before.  We also had to think about what we were going to do it on and what issue we were going to talk about.

I think creating this PSA will help me in the future because I can do it for my students.  If I wanted to touch on classroom management I could create a video and show it to the class which I think would help the students remember it a lot more.  I could also have my own students create a video and edit it for an assessment on the knowledge that they gain on a subject that I thought.  You can do so much with video and now that I know how to edit a little after doing this assignment it will help me in the future.  I think that one of the best ways to engage students and help them learn is with videos that capture their attention because they can hear it and they can see it.

IRLO Reflection

This project called for a lot of effort from me which it was designed to to by Dr. Boyer.  He wanted to test us and put us in a situation where we had to struggle a little before we could succeed which I feel was a great thing to do.  I want my students to have to work hard because I think challenging is good.  I felt that I was a hard assignment because first I had to come up with an idea that I could use to create an interactive reusable learning objective.  I also wanted to do something that dealt with things I might be teaching someday.  That was difficult but then it got even more difficult when I had to start designing it in scratch.  It got easier as I went because once I figured out how to do what I wanted I could just keep redoing it. 

I think that creating one of these IRLO is a good project because it challenges a student to do something different.  Never have I ever thought about programing my own game.  This program allowed me to do that.  I especially enjoyed being able to create something that dealt with my subject that I could be teaching someday.  I think that one day my students could use this in my classroom and get a lot out of it.  This game is really simple but I feel that it gets students to know their elements.  Plus I can always add to it and make changes.

Exit slip 12/9

My thinking about using technology in the classroom has changed over the semester.  Before I took this class I felt that it wold be very difficult to do but this class has shown me that using technology doesn't have to be that difficult.  Dr. Boyer showed us many different way in which we can incorporate technology in the classroom.  There are many different tools that we can use to help students learn.  I had know idea that there was this many resources you could use to accomplish it.  I think that if you just experiment and use these resources more often you will be able to use these a lot easier and efficiently.

Three Ways of Intergrating Technology in My Classroom

One way that I would integrate technology in my tenth grade science classroom is to have a discussion blog where I will give my students a question of two a week that they have to go to their blogs and answer it with their point of view.  This way they can respond to other students blogs.  Another way that I will use technology in my classroom is to have a video uploaded on to a classroom site that students can get to of the labs that we do in class so that students can remember what happened and have a visual of how to do it.  A third way that I will integrate technology in my classroom is have a course website that will have assignments and dates of when things are due so they are not surprised.  This way students can access it.  We can also update the site and put what we did in class on certain days so students can remember and they can use it as a tool to study.  This will also help students who are sick because they can access it anywhere they want to.

Reflection on Interactive Whiteboard Lesson

While doing this lesson I felt that I put a good amount of effort into it.  Prior to this class I have never used the smart technologies to create anything.  It takes a while to get used to how everything works and how youy change or add things.  It is different then creating things on powerpoint because everything can move on it.  I also had to look up a few things to create this lesson so the information was correct.

Designing and sharing this IWB will definitly affect my future as a teacher because many classrooms now have these IWB's.  It would be a great skill to have to know how to create and share things with this technology.  This lesson was a good start up to something that I very well could use in my future.  It was pretty fun creating something like this and making it interactive for the students to use.  The more interaction they have, the more interested they will be, and that will help them learn a lot easier.

what I took from class week 13

Today we talked a lot about integrating technology in the classroom.  We focused a lot on a video of a classroom in Canada and how that teacher integrated technology in the classroom.  One main idea is that you can have your students learn outside of the classroom by using technology.  We then talked about what we could do before technology, what we can do now, and how technology made it better.  There are ways to do some things without technology, but there a lot of things that we can do now.  Technology has also made things easier and more improved.  As teachers we have to see that we should use technology that can make our classrooms better.  After that we went over things that teachers do well and things that teachers do bad with technology.  This is very useful information because as future teachers we want to do the right things with technology and not make mistakes with it.  Technology can be a very useful and helpful thing in the classroom.  We as teachers have to take the good uses of technology and integrate them into our classrooms.