BY TRACI: Technology in the classroom

Many years technology has advanced and become very powerful to classrooms and much more. There are many ways to use technology in the classsroom to make learning fun and get the children involved. One type of technologies that can be used is wiki, blog, and there are other types that allow you to communicate.

Good Use of Technology in Classroom

I think technology is important to have in the classroom, and it can be used in many different ways. A few things we've learned in EDMD3300 that I would like to incoorporate into my classroom are; podcast, webquest, photo story and windows movie maker. I think each of these would be fun and educational for students because they are different and creative and will encourage communication in my classroom.

Technology in the classroom

Over the years there have been many technological advances in the classroom. There are many ways to use technoogy with children. Technology can be used to make learning fun and interesting. One type of technology that can be helpful in schools is blogs, wiki spaces and other types of technology that allow students to join in woht discussions and share their thoughts. Another helpful tool is audacity & photo story where students can share their thoughts and feeling through voice communication and pictures. There are many different tools that can advance childrens learning and improve their learning experiment.

Technology in Classrooms

A good use of technology in a classroom setting would be one in which several different technologies are incorporated to enhance the students learning. Each technology used should be some what challenging but also skill level appropriate. The activity should engage the studentsand always promote learning of some sort. It is important for teachers to incorporate technology at an early age so that students are not only comfortbale with it when tey get olser but also so that they will be able to learn new technologies as they become available. Web Quests, Photostory, Powerpoint, online learning games, blogs, Wikis, Audacity, and others are great tools for incopreating technology into the classroom.

Favorite Foods

I love food! Some of my favorite things are barbque, chicken casserole, or italian! My favorite restuarant is Macroni Grill in Birmingham! I love getting their Chicken Fetticini Alfredo. I am really excited about Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up! My mom and grandmothers always cook yummy stuff!

What are some of your favorite foods? And what is your favorite restuarant?

Blogging a/b Videos

I enjoyed making and editing our video this week. I learned a lot about iMovie and about video cameras. Although, I didn't really like how much time it took us to do the assignment... I had fun!

After seeing all of our class videos, a few were kinda boring and others were funny and entertaining. I enjoyed the Rugrats one the best. I thought it was humorous, but it also held my attention well, so now I know how to make GAK. The other videos were very informative, but they were a little boring. I was having a hard time holding my attention there because I was losing interest.

I think it would be fun to use videos in my classroom. If I were teaching upper elementary school I think the students would enjoy learning how to make a short video in class with a small group or something. But I would keep this assignment in class, I wouldn't want to make parents responsible for this project because I want the students to learn and know, and if it were a at home assignment parents would do more work. Also, I might use short videos in my classroom for science experiements, or any other type of demonstration... especially if the video was funny, I think short videos would go over great!

Hometown

I come from a very small town called Grant, AL. To give you an idea of just how small it is we have one red light and one caution light. I like my little town because I know about everybody that lives there. My graduating class of 2005 only had 65 people in it. It is very close community were everybody knows everybody jut like the song. There is not realy a lot to do there but there are towns nearby that have lots of fun things to do. I really enjoy my little town and cant ever imagine living in a big city.