Over the past five weeks we have learned an abundance of classroom appealing technology tools.
PowerPoint
We started PowerPoint the the first day of class with short introduction of ourselves. From there we turned it up a bit using PowerPoint as a lesson to teach multiple teaching standards at once. I now know how to utilize PowerPoint in ways I never did before.
Google Docs
Google Docs allowed the classroom to calibrate in small groups on universally the same document no matter if we were in the class room or at home. I enjoyed how we explored open source resources (another tech tool) to write a Google doc.
Blogger
Using the Blogger website with the class and finding out the massive varieties of blogs was boggling. Now knowing how easy it is to create one I now can understand how they can be on just about anything. Blogger has been fun and I hope we do more with this tech tool.
Word Documents & Emails
Mr.Smith has done a phenomenal job of creating word documents of the classroom's itinerary for every class. with the classroom getting the agenda emailed before the class I believe this has also been a great tool to get the ball rolling as soon as class time begins.
All in all these were great lessons, I look forward to the next weeks wishing they will be as intriguing as the last.
It is good that you brought up all of the different tools that we used. I think we are going to be able to learn to use a lot more tools in the next coming week. This class is truely giving us resources to be using when we are educators of our own classroom.
ReplyDeleteGeeze, over achiever! jk- I like this class a lot because I really believe that technology will have a huge impact on classrooms in the near future.
ReplyDeleteI like how you touch base on each tool that we have used.
ReplyDeleteA good summation of everything that we have touched on in class - very well thought out! We should all learn from these tools and take our own initiative to find tools that will suit our needs in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteGreat thread and discussion. Cody, I like your insight and willingness to share. "All in all these were great lessons, I look forward to the next weeks wishing they will be as intriguing as the last." Thanks for the pressure:)
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