TECHnically

Today was the last day of my TECHNOLY IN EDUCATION class.  I cannot believe 10 weeks have gone by so fast.  I remember when I first entered this class I was so uncomfortable with the WORLD WIDE WEB.  I would not venture past MicroSoft Office documents, e*mail and GOOGLing weekly sales papers.  However, while I am no tech expert, after being introduced to so many cool Tech Tools, I must say it is not as scary as I thought and I am much more comfortable. 

 

Did you know INTERNET EXPLORER is not the only web browser - so skip those constant error messages and try CHROME (a google browser) or FireFOX? Did you know your 'favorites' do not have to be bound to your desktop or laptop - you can actually take your 'favorites' with you by downloading them onto a bookmarking website such as symbaloo and diigo.  And guess what you can even download your personal documents onto the web - Good Bye eighteen flash drives that I have no idea what is on until I insert each one.  So now if your computer crashes (which I hope it does not, at least you will have your stuff).  I also did cool things like created a digital story, a Professional Web Page, a BLOG and a TWITTER (which I have yet to tweet on - maybe I will do it after this blog post).  I also learned some cool tools to use in my class such as PREZI which is PowerPoint on steroids.  Two of my favorite tech tools are corkboard.me and blabberize.

 
I am just so excited about the all technology I was introduced to and look forward to using most, if not all, of it in the class once I become a teacher.  For me the end of this class is bittersweet but for my daughter it may just be sweet because now she does not have to worry about me interrupting her while she is doing her homework to come and look at the new cool tech tool I just used. 

 

…..and P.S. my technology learning is not over - I just learned how to hyperlink this stuff (without you seeing all the HTTP stuff) so you can click on and see the cool tech tools I am talking about.

 

Until next time…..