Final Post

*I have learn so much about blogs and how they work. I hope to continue to blog even in my future classroom.

*Also, we learned how to make a presentations using Google docs. I also did a presentation teaching some one how to use a Promethean Board and software. I will certainly be making a lot of history presentation using Google in my classroom.

*When we made our first presentation about us, We learn how to size up our pictures using Picasa and I was amazed on how easy it was.

*One of my favorite assignments was when we got to make our own podcasts. I had found it would be great when I am out one day and all my substitute would have to do is open my podcast and let me give the assignment.

* We used YouTube a lot in our blog assignments and I also learned how to embed it into my blog.

* One of the blog/posts I read was Dan Carver's blog on education. He has a real want and desire to educate. I hope I will have te same drive he has for his students.

*My Personal Learning Network has grown leaps and bounds from the time I first started this class. I want to keep expanding it because I know when I finally receive my degree my student will think the stuff I learned now is going to be "old school".

*Twitter was a really neat thing to learn because it is a faster way to keep up with people.

*To keep up with other teachers and students outside of our region I used Audacity to do teacher interviews with teachers in Birmingham. I also will use this tool for when I am out of class I still can communicate the assignment to them and explain it as well while the substitute over sees things.

*For comments4kids I was amazed it these students blogs and how well they were doing when using technology. I hope to use a blog to showcase my students work.

*Comments4classmates was also great because I was able to see what was going on in my classmates blog and see there thought on the assignment. I believe that my future students would find it interesting be able to comment on their classmate's work.

*Comments4teachers was interesting because I liked reading teacher's blogs and what they were doing in their classroom.

* iTunes and iTunes U were great tools to use when listening to podcasts of professors from outside the region.

*The use of html tag modifiers help people who are visually impaired to help them hear what the picture is about. I am so glad I learned how to do this because I may have students who are visually impaired an this tool may make them feel included.

*In my profession I hope to be a progressive teacher. This means I would like for my class to branch out of the classroom and do hands on activities rather than sitting in straight rows and taking notes while I lecture. That is not all children's learning style. Being a secondary social science teacher, I want to make history come alive to my students and for them not to regurgitate what I teach, but to truly understand the lesson.

* Google forms was a great way to get quick feed back from my peers on any issue I wanted information about.

*Google Earth was very exciting and one of my favorite things to do in this class. I will certainly use this in my social science class.

*Delicious is a great bookmarking tool which keeps all your websites organized and you can get to them quicker.

*I feel I am more technological literate than before taking this class. It has helped me tremendously to reach for a higher standard of learning.

*The future of schools I believe is more technology and less paper and pencil if we all work together we can transform education into something more interesting and fun for our students

* My intellectual trail, I believe, is and has been a good one. I look forward to expanding on what I learned in this class.

2. I would have like to play around more on the Promethean Board and learned more on it.

3. I thought the whole class, while tedious, was beneficial and will help me in my future classroom.

4. I really liked learning audacity because I have used it outside of this class. I have used it in my EDF 315 class doing a teacher interview.

5. I thought everything was rather interesting in this class

6. I thought some of the blogs were rather long and boring but for the most part they were very interesting. To correct this I might chose shorter videos.

7. I did not feel overworked in this class I felt that some things were confusing, but for the work load it was okay. I would take out twittering because I did not use it that much for this class or in my future profession.

8. I feel that I am more technologically literate more so that when I started this class. I feel I can always improve on my knowledge of technology, but for right now I am at the "good" stage.

9. I want to keep blogging and expand my knowledge on teaching technologies (like smart/Promethean Boards).