Thursday, February 21, 2013

Twitter & Me

I found the assignment and the way of taking the quiz as a really good way to learning how to use Twitter. Some things that I found extremely positive would be how the class was able to work together through an online community to be able to get others feedback and opinions. It was a good way for everyone to get a better understand of the questions that were being asked. One negative I saw in the assignment was participation, it seemed as though a good amount of the people in the class were hesitant to participate in the twitter discussion. Other then that I found the assignment mostly beneficial to learning how to use technology to communicate with others on a certain subject matter. BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY USAGE IN CLASSROOMS! EVEN THE OLD FOLKS ARE USING TWITTER!!! Pros and Cons of Social Media in the classroom!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Final Frontier

The assignment we were given in class was a group project. We were to make a power point on an article "Teacher Pedagogical Beliefs: The Final Frontier in Our Quest for Technology Integration?" written by Peggy A. Ertmer. The articles main purpose was to expose why some teachers are not willing to incorporate technology into their lessons and that many of these reasons are the beliefs that teachers have on education. The following is a power point that myself and two other students created to expose some statistics and facts that have been found on teachers beliefs and how if effects their willingness to use technology in their classrooms! Enjoy!!!