My Vision My Blog #3

First and foremost the technology we have covered over the past three weeks has been eye opening. I consider myself a computer teacher and didn't have an idea of how much I still don't know. I find myself wrapped up in to much commercial software that I teach and learning the ends and outs then I do with the variety of software that we have been exposed to already.

Integrating Technology into the classroom

I would love to integrate a lot of what we learned into the classroom.

I will start with google pages. I would love a class website and a club website. I want the students to be able to show off what they are doing in class. I would also love the parents to be able to follow their curriculum and what they are learning everyday. My club needs a place to organize projects and competition information. They also need to be able to post pictures and awards they have one for all their hard work. Google pages would be an easy software to teach my students and an easy way to accomplish all that I want.

I would also like to work with blogs. I would love to have each student create a blog as a class journal. I would love to require a weekly posting of what we are doing in class and what they have learning so far. They can also post pictures of things they have created or drawing in class. It would give their parents a good way to follow what we are doing in class. I also think the students would love to learn this technology. It is a way for them to post their own stuff for their friends.

Delicious is a great tool that I will be using in for my own personal use in the classroom. It will be an organizational tool for me to list the students websites they visit and use throughout the year. They will be able to reference them any time they need them.

I think just about all of the technology tools we have used in class this summer have place in the classroom.