So I am running in to technology problems while taking a technology class. I am not a technology native and there is a whole new language that I have to learn. Blog, Glog, URL, pdf., and rtf. I am learning more vocabulary in this class than I am in my Language Arts classes. Do not get me wrong I like the challenge and I am learning more than I could have imagined. I find the tools that I am gaining will help me as a teacher in the future. I will be able to communicate with my students who will be technology natives and prepare them for work in the Twenty-First Century.
Teaching using a blog is a great way to communicate with your students, parents, and other teachers. The information that can be shared between these groups is vast and invaluable to a student who may not have learned as much from a more traditional form of an assignment.
Google Documents appears to have the ability to help teachers with time management. If you are able to design assignments, quizzes, and homework for your students and it can be graded and the results are submitted to a spreadsheet, you can save some precious time. It also gives you the opportunity to look at trends in your classroom that may help shape your future teaching and assignments.
The only draw back that I have experienced thus far with this process is that I do not learn well in this interactive world. I am a traditional learner. I like to be face to face with an instructor and able to ask real time questions. I believe that communicating electronically can also be dangerous and has potential to cause problems. We are not able to read peoples tones, inflections, and body language when we only communicate through electronic means.
I have a lot to learn and a lot to share.
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