Final Entry

I have experienced a number of new technologies this semester that I had never used before. It will be interesting to try them out in the context of real courses that I teach with real assignments and connections to education. I now definitely have a number of new options for performance-based assessment ideas, classroom organization tools and resources for myself and my students.

Our final presentations confirmed many of my hesitations regarding technology, but also enlightened me to many new things I did not know about. The presentations covered a number of technologies I had never heard of and have never used, and am excited to explore. In particular, the WebQuest and the Scrapblog site stuck out to me. I had seen WebQuests before, but had never really explored them. The Scrapblog site seemed kind of like a glorified PowerPoint, but with designs and formats that I think would really appeal to young people. I also liked the Mario and Monique's presentations, because I liked the way the camera seemed to pan over the presentation as a whole.

The other blogs I visited were Mario's The Big Onion, Natalina's Keeping Up Globally with Mathematics, Frank's Life as a Science Teacher and College Coach, and Lauren's Literacy and Technology. I thought it was interesting to see how different everyone's blogs were. Some people's blogs were very short but frequent, and others' were more like mine, where they were posting less often, but were writing much more in depth. It was also interesting to hear what other people were experiencing with all of the projects and new technologies.