Final Blog Reflection

What do you feel is the most useful technology you have learned this semester?

I definitely think the most useful technology I have learned this semester was the class website. I really enjoyed the Wiki version rather than the Google version though. Since the semester is over and I have time, I will be making a Wiki site rather than maintaining my Google site. This resource will be so helpful for students when they are needing help outside of school time. It will also be very useful for collaboration among students in the classroom in the sharing of ideas and projects, and even study helps.

How do you plan to use this or other technologies in your future classroom?

I will be using a class website to set up group projects, study guides, reading assignments, and general communication between me and the students. I think that all of these methods will be helpful to both me and the students, enabling us to be more efficient in our teaching and learning.

How can you use these technologies to engage your students in "active" learning?

With technology, it is not simply something that can be shown to your students. They have to experiment with it and learn how to use it as well. Often the students will be the ones teaching us rather than us teaching them when it comes to technology. Having my students do projects using any of these technologies will be essential in ensuring that all the students are participants and active learners.

Wiki Project

After using the Wiki and uploading my personal technology project, I can't wait to be able to use one in my own classroom! It was so useful and it is very open to change and contributions from whoever is allowed to edit it. It was also very helpful being able to see other students' projects to get a feel for what other teachers are planning on using in their future classrooms.

Here is a link to my personal technology project. It was so much fun working with the Google Earth software. You can do so many things with it and explore all over the world! I will definitely be using the program in my classroom.

This Semester

This semester my favorite thing that we did in our online class was making our class websites! I can't wait to be able to use this when I become a teacher! Here is a link to my class website.