The main point of Jamie’s presentation was change, change in schools, and what we should be doing to improve them. He gave five main trends for undermining schools:
1. 25% have kids in shcool, 75% pay taxes for the schools
2. The media has a negative effect on schoools
3. Rights revolution
4. Customerization
5. Melting Pot
Writeboard is a free educational technology tool that allows you to edit, save, share, collaberate web based text documents with others.
Teachers could use this tool to help edit, and monitor students in group projects or papers.
Hippo Campus provides free high quality multimedia content for general education subjects to high school and college students.This site can be used for students that need some extra information, and digital media on different subjects like algerbra, biology, statistics, physics, religion, U.S. history, calculus, psychology, environmental science, and american government for high school and college students.
I listened to Brian C. Dvorak and his podcast episode number thirty five about Flip Video. Brian Dvorak has been working in the K-12 education for fourteen years. He is currently a technology facilitator at a public school in California. He says his passion is discovering the brand new cutting edge technology, and integrating technology into the classroom. Brian talks about the Flip Video and its uses and abilities. He talks about how affordable the Flip Video, and the differences between the Flip Video Ultra and the normal Flip Video, and what he recommends. He also tells you the price of each camera. He explains, the name of the camera, and how to use it. He talks about how the Flip Video is run by just two double AA batteries, and how its useful. The frame rate is 30 frames per second, and he also tells you about the screen resolution. He also tells you the size of the camera and all the built -ins that come with it. He mentions that the battery life is two and a half hours.
I watched episode EdTech 35; here is a link : http://edtech101.com/
The RSS reader I am using is Google Reader which is from my Google mail account. I am subscribed to our whole class but here is a link to a few examples. Some examples include Brianna Doyle, Brittany Hall, Demi Anderson, and Drew Bostic.
https://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#overview-page
An RSS reader is a very useful tool for a teacher. It allows me as a teacher to keep all the blogs I am subscribed to in one place so I don’t have to search in so many different places to get to my favorite blogs, its all in one place. The RSS reader also updates on its own so I do not have to worry about if its changing or not. I’m learning from it because it teaches me to be updated and keep up with modern technology, so that way its easier for me as a teacher, and it may benefit my students.
I think this new technology will be important for my teaching career because it involves the students and this product is going into many of the schools in my area right now. I will need to know how to use it myself as a student right now, and once I become an intervention specialist.
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=84045&mode=comment&user_id=&blogger_id=
The reason this teacher blogs is because she thinks that this way other students can comment on their friends work, safe palce to learn about the internet, learning a new form of communication, a chance to view new cultueres and parents and family can be involved in their work.
http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=352
This teacher is saying that its benefitial for students, its safe because he can edit inappropriate comments, and it also is good for the parents because they can check on what their child is doing in the classroom.
http://bettyb.teacherlingo.com/about.aspx
This teacher blogs because she finds it a new and exciting way to keep in touch with other teachers.
I think that blogging will be impotant in my teaching career because it will keep me connected with my students and their parents. The parents will be able to see whats going on in the classroom and can ask questions at anytime. It will also be good for my students to be learning new technology.
Erica Greer 