Good morning and happy Tuesday,
After going over that last two chapter in our classroom book titled, "Supporting Learning with Technology", I found chapter 10 to be the more "fitting" chapter for me. I like the title alone of chapter 10 and I'm a big fan of supporting anyone that want's to exceed in technology and enhance their technology skills. One must understand what the student(s) want and then you can support them from there.
Explaining information to the students will be very helpful. Knowing the guidelines to help support students is a must. This is mentioned in the book--the guidelines. Of course you have to know the up to date products, software, and information in order to succeed with helping. The three trends that they have listed on page 264 in figure 10.1 is very helpful. As I said before technology is taking over the world. Supporting one's idea about learning about more technology or technology for the first time, won't be a bad idea.
Chapter nine had great topics and ideas for teachers. I like all the administrative tools they have listed for teachers. When ever I become one, I would look into those tools. Having professional development (PD) seems very important in this weeks lesson. There are certain characteristics of PD that are listed in this chapter as well. This chapter as well as chapter 10 are good outlines for teachers.
This week in class is a lot of work to me!! Doing the google site for the classroom was fun, I never used that before. The only software I used to make a web page was in my web page class, which was FrontPage. That sounds so old now, ha!!!
Until then folks.
As a teacher, I really agreed with the PD ideas in Ch.. 9. We have been having a really hard time encouraging teachers to use technology. We do need to allow time and support for our staff members when they are trying to figure out how to incorporate new technologies!
ReplyDeleteI agree this week in class does seem like a lot of work. I have never made a Google Site before, but agree it was rather easy!