Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Twitter and me

Twitter is a social network that gives you the ability to communicate with other educators from all across the globe. However, judging from our quiz we took it was not as effective as it could have been. The computers in our classroom are out dated and slow. Most of them still run on Internet Explorer, which don't have the capacity to run TweetDeck or google drive. This was a huge hassle that left me furious, because Twitter updated so slowly that by the time I could see a fellow class mates tweet it was four or five minutes old and we had moved onto a new question. In our classroom situation it would have been easier to just talk and communicate face to face with other students. I discovered that twitter was more problematic than it was helpful. I didn't use Twitter before this classroom, because I don't feel the need to talk about myself that much. When I teach in the future, I don't plan on using a lot of technology for the fact that when it's not running well it wastes time.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Final Frontier


This is my groups presentation, in it we show how technology helps the class room grow. This was our "call to action." I was surprised at how well our group worked together, we really worked as a team as there was little individual work that came from an individual rather most of all the work was a group effort with two or three points of view on our slides. I feel that using Google drive was an easier way to have collaboration occur than the traditional method of working as a group. In the article Peggy Etmer talks about how beliefs out weigh knowledge and that interferes with the teachers productivity and they should change their beliefs to enrich their teachings