Now that the semester is ending, how do you feel about technology in general?

I feel that technology is something that can be used in your everyday life to make tasks simpler and life easier. Since I have had the opportunity to use technology all my life, I feel comfortable adopting new technology as it is made available.

Do you feel different than when you started this class?

I feel that I have sharpened my skills with the various Microsoft office programs we have used in class. In addition I feel that I can use these programs to create useful documents that can be used within the classroom to help with organization and teaching.

How do you feel about integrating technology in your teaching?

I feel that having technology integrated with daily activities within the classroom will help facilitate the learning process by immersing the kids in an environment where they are not only learning what is being taught, but also learning the technology they are working with.

Unit plan Experience

The unit plan is a useful tool that will help with organizing the material that I plan to teach. I knew that technology would play an important part in my Unit Plan, because I am naturally inclined to use technology in my day to day tasks. However, trying to integrate technology into that is useful to not only, but to the students was challenging. I chose to use technology that everyone in the class would be familiar with, and instead of grading them on how well they could use the technology I graded them on how they incorporated information into it.

Crazy Week

This past week and the next few weeks are going to be really busy and stressful. I am wrapping up my studies to sit for the first part of the CPA exam and will be finishing my exams for semester. I hope I will be able to get everything accomplished that I need to.

Website

I made my website using the Digication web application. The application the whole process very simple. I have made websites in the past with pure html coding while in high school and also with MacroMedia's Dreamweaver. The website made with pure html coding was challenging, but helped me in the future with visualizing how layouts are supposed to be and with technical issues such as broken links. Digication's pre-made layouts allows the user to focus entirely adding content and probably to be more productive in the end.