Two weeks in..

I have successfully..or so i think.. completed my first two weeks in using technology in the classroom course. I am starting to enjoy blogging,. Its almost a form of therapy! Now that I know how easy it is to blog I am sure that I will include blogging in my classroom. I think it would work great for english. Students could post their work so that all their freinds and family and possibly others could read and give feedback on. I think that students would find this highly motivating to do good work! I also think that if students are experiencing "writers block" they could blog to get ideas and see who responds. I am sure that there are ways to include blogging in other courses as well. I am also very impressed with my new igoogle home page. It totally beats hotmail and incorporates all my favorite interent uses right on my homepage! I cant belive I had never even heard about igoogle before. This class has proved to be quite interesting so far...

Trying to be positive..

One would think that a twenty two year old who is now in her eighteenth year of school ( including kindergarten!) would have some experience with technology. Amazingly, through-out my education, I have managed to avoid technology. I thought that I was being sneaky and smart. I now realize that I have handicaped myself hugely. In most clasess we were given options and I always chose the option that did not involve technology. During group work, I would offer to do the research to avoid having to make the powerpoint! In my final year of my undergrad I was required to create a powerpoint..on my own... and much to my embarrassment, my younger sister had to help me make it! Now here I am, faced with an entire course based on technology... my very 1st tech course... lets see how it goes!