Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Thing #5

I had always thought that I was pretty good with technology. I use it for school, the whole time I am at my job, and I have Myspace. So I was thinking "Oh yea, I got this. This class won be that hard". Man was I in for a surprise when I started this class. I heard words like Web 2.0, podcast, mail merge and I was dumbfounded. I had not idea what any of these things were. It kind of made me put my ego in check and say 'Maybe I don't know as much as I thought'. As we get farther in the class I am starting to understand more, but technology updates constantly and you have to on your toes for when something new comes out.

Web 2.0 to me is incorporating more technology in the classroom to help students understand better. It's amazing how far we have come in technology. We can now use power point, document cameras, internet in every classroom, and microphones for teachers. For the future I see that we will make so many more technological advances that every student, no matter what grade, will have a computer for themselves.

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