Summing it up..

I'm going to be honest, I've learned about a lot of things in this class that otherwise I probably would have never considered. Blogs, I've been familiar with but I never had one of my own. I definitely see the use, personally and professionally. I would definitely love to have a class blog when I have my own classroom, it seems to be a really useful tool with students and their parents. I really liked looking up the blogs around the country and the world. It just reinforced the fact that they are really useful in the classroom. Also, it was neat making those contacts with the other teachers too. I was also familiar with presentations, but not doing them on Google Docs. Google Docs is something that I was not familiar with, but I really like it. It's free, easy to use especially if you've been familiar with other computer programs, and it's easy to access all of your saved files. Google forms and databases were a neat tool too. I might not use them as much as I would the docs, but to know the tool is there and how to use it is always a good thing. I really liked working with the podcasts too. I think that would be a cool project if you have students at the age in which they would understand what's going on. I think they would enjoy it and it will give them the oppotunity to learn something new also. iTunes is something I've been using for a long time, but I'd never really paid attention to the iTunesU before this class so I'm sure that it will be useful as I continue through school and then begin entering the schools. I think the professional blog, while a bit complicated, really made me think about who I am and who I want to be as a teacher. I've come to realize that it is more and more important to start thinking of these things ahead of time instead of dealing with everything when I'm starting out as a teacher. Google Earth has always been really neat to me. Sometimes I just get on there and look around because I'm bored, so I'm sure I will get some use out of that. As far as ACCESS and ALEX, I think those two are extremely important. My plan is to teach in Alabama, so those two things will be key in my classroom. I'm actually doing research on ACCESS, but I love the online education oppotunities with it. ALEX will be something I'm constantly implementing into my work simply because that is what the curriculum I will be teaching is centered around. I'm extremely glad you taught us how to use Foliotek with your method. My other teachers have definitely showed me various ways to use it, but none have worked as well.

I believe all of these things will be helpful when I become a teacher. In my post about project 6 I mentioned how as the generations come forward the students are becoming more and more technology oriented. Everything we learned in this class could be implemented with the students and they will enjoy and learn from it so much better than just by using textbooks. So, in summary I learned A LOT from this class.

I cannot imagine learning anything else though. I came into this class basically expecting it to be a normal computer class, nothing special. Now though I know it was anything but a normal computer class. I learned about things that I definitely had never heard of so as far as learning anything else, I'm really not sure what else there would be.

I don't think I learned about anything I didn't want to learn about either. Twitter was the only one I has difficulty finding use of. I see the benefits, but I'm not exactly sure how much I'll implement it. Who knows though, I could use it a lot more than I'm expecting.