It might be the geek in me, but I am just so excited for all the technology coming into the classrooms nowadays. It's not just that it's easier either, it's just so much more... fun when you've got smart boards and computers and videos and the web to work with.
Though it really is a lot easier, as a student, to pay attention to something other than lectures and textbooks for eight hours a day. Seeing and hearing is one thing, doing—even virtually—is something so completely different.
And the thought of what we don't even have yet, but that we will someday? The iPads and smart boards of tomorrow? I just might explode waiting to see what's coming next. :)
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Reflection Blog Week 6
Internet security is a very hot topic for me. Okay, so my training and standards are probably a lot stricter than most people would say is reasonable, but I was in the military and they kind of take that sort of thing seriously.
It helps that I'm kind of a private, introverted person anyway and have always been in the habit of not sharing much of anything truly personal about myself.
Which is not to say that I haven't broken some of the rules, from time to time. I've traveled across the country both directions to meet people in real life that I met on the Internet, but it wasn't a spur of the moment thing and I wouldn't recommend it for just anyone to try.
It's not impossible to meet perfectly nice people on the Internet. But not everyone surfing the web is as friendly and innocuous as your neighbors, either. It takes some caution—which, frankly, in today's world is just as important offline as on.
But that's a topic for another blog, I think. :)
It helps that I'm kind of a private, introverted person anyway and have always been in the habit of not sharing much of anything truly personal about myself.
Which is not to say that I haven't broken some of the rules, from time to time. I've traveled across the country both directions to meet people in real life that I met on the Internet, but it wasn't a spur of the moment thing and I wouldn't recommend it for just anyone to try.
It's not impossible to meet perfectly nice people on the Internet. But not everyone surfing the web is as friendly and innocuous as your neighbors, either. It takes some caution—which, frankly, in today's world is just as important offline as on.
But that's a topic for another blog, I think. :)
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Reflection Blog Week 5
Didn't learn a lot of new tricks this week, but the broadening of my horizons was appreciated anyway. I guess I never really thought of power point presentations as a tool for teachers or students, beyond the obvious of presentations for a report.
The ability to use them as a game format is sort of cool though, as are the pop quiz or polling aspects. Still don't know if I'll make much use of them myself, but it's something to consider, another tool in the box as it were.
The ability to use them as a game format is sort of cool though, as are the pop quiz or polling aspects. Still don't know if I'll make much use of them myself, but it's something to consider, another tool in the box as it were.
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