Monday, April 27, 2009

Final Reflection

During this class, I learned about blogs, blogspot, and podcast. I would use the blogs in my own classroom, and use blogspot to post assignments, grades, and due dates. This class taught me how to use these tools and navigate within them. Mr. Tashbin was a great teacher and was very patient with us as we learned. He was very helpful when we didnt understand an assignment and stayed beside us and offered more help until we understood completely. The podcast were about the only thing that I might would change, because it was difficult getting everything together and making it perfect. There were days when not everyone in our group showed up and we had to either not work on it or try to piece it together. It was also difficult to talk for ten minutes without repeating yourself or others over and over. Overall, I enjoyed the class and would take it over with Mr. Tashbin again. He is a great teacher!

Google Articles

I completely agree with the "Changing the Way We Think." We have become completely dependent on technology. We turn to the internet to search specific topics, read online books, and to order things instead of going out and shopping from them. Facebook and Myspace are internet services we use to communicate with friends, but it is not usually used for educational purposes. Technology is continuously growing and new things constantly arising, so I can not say in 5 more years where we will be or how we will be using technology. I also think we sometimes get too wrapped up in computers and technology that we tend to lose ourselves. We would not know what to do if technology was taken away from us, we would be lost.

Googles GDrive May "Kill" The PC, would be something very useful and helpful especially for college students. It would be one less thing we have to worry about losing or carrying around. I have lost and missplaced my flash drive several times, and have even forgotten to save work on and have not been able to make changes to work or print to turn in assignments. This would be a nice improvement to technology for us to be able to use it anywhere and at anytime.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

ACCESS

ACCESS is an internet program that allows high school students to learn outside of the classroom. Teachers who may not want to stand in front of a class all day, would probably like this method of teaching best. The lessons are taught through videos via internet. Students have forms that must be filled out before entering the program and also have to have consent from the school they are presently attending.
The website offers all the brochures designed specifically for parents, students, and the educators. ACCESS offers a wide variety of courses, some a student may not have an opportuniy to experience in a regular high school. These courses are designed for those students who want to learn on an advanced level. I think this is a good program for those students who want more from their education. I, however, would not want to be one of the teachers. I want to be in a classroom and in a more settled environment.

Monday, January 26, 2009

ALEX

ALEX is a very helpful website for teachers. I also think this website would be helpful for parents because they can see what their children should be learning and they can help the teacher monitor how well the child understands what they are learning. The website offers a place to view and share lesson plans, which can give teachers different ideas and layouts for their lesson plans. ALEX offers links to various site for teachers, students, and school administrators. The links include information about different subject areas, classroom activities, and information about counciling.
I would highly recommend this website to other teachers. I think it may help with some of the stressful duties and give some helpful insite. In the future, I will definitely look at this website for information or help creating lesson plans. I feel I can also get some helpful ideas for class projects for a specific subject area.