Reflection 4

During my experience in school, we mainly used computers, calculators, power point presentations, and the internet. During my physics class, we used e-instruction clickers to answer questions during class. I think this was a good integration of technology because it allowed both the teacher and student to understand areas that needed to be concentrated on. It helped prepare students for test questions and gave the instructor good feed back. In this class I expect to learn more about creating web pages and integrating technology into my lesson plans. My top 5 techonlogy innovations list are video clips, video conferencing, wikipedia, google earth, and podcasts. Videoclips will allow students to view certain reactions and experiments we will not perfom in class in order to better understand a new concept. Wikipedia is a very nice online encyclopedia for science. My students will use this website to look up necessary information for class and labs. I learned that technology is always advancing and this is making it easier and more fun for students to learn in the classroom. This technology allows new and innovative ways for students to learn.

Summary of Reflections #1 and #2

During Week 1 I reflected on the most common technologies that I had experienced during my elementary, middle, and high school years. I mainly used powerpoint and videos during middle and high school. In elementary school I used computer games that were also educational. A good technology integration experience that I had was when teachers used online video clips during class. I also decided during Week 1 that I expect to learn more about sources of technology that are innovative and that I can use to better teach Chemistry in this course. During Week 2 my top five technology innovations are Video clips, blogs, scenarios, Wikipedia, and manipulation. My favorite technology innovations are video clips and blogs. I plan on showing video clips of experiments that are extremely volatile or that I do not have the resources for to perform in class. The "big idea" that I learned in Week 2 is that there are a variety of technologies that I thought would not be available for a high school classroom for a long time that will be ready to use in the near future.

Reflection Paper 2

My top 5 technology innovations include: videoclips, virtual museums, google earth, video conferencing, scenarios/simulations. Virtual museums can show footage of actual things I am talking about in class as well as showing pictures and talking about it. Ex: Mitosis Meiosis: With Virtual Museums the students can actually visually see the different steps of the development. Another is Tablets, these innovative technology allows students too use more technology in the classroom which helps them stay more organized and neat. The 'big' idea learned from today's lass is that technology is always improving, growing, and becoming stronger. Learning about them now will allow us teachers to have more options in the future on how to teach a class and integrate them into your lessons.

Reflection Paper 1

Some of the most common technologies I have experienced during my school years include overhead projectors, computers for ppt presentations, microscopes, tape players, cd/dvd players along with slide projectors. An example of technology integrated into the college classroom occured in my Geology class. Here, we had a projector hooked up to the computer and the projector screen that displayed live images of rocks (for example). I have never seen something like this before. The technologies I am most familiar with are the internet, word processing, e-mail, ppt, digital cameras along with games/simulation and you tube. I expect to learn how to integrate technology to my advantage as a teacher of biology