Over the semester I have learned many ways to
integrate technology in my classroom and how to use many tools that are
available. The projects I completed are
how to create my very own blog, concept mapping, using web tools (Storybird,
Wordle, Rubric, and Trackstar), Google Groups and Google Drive, Movie Story,
Web site, Turnitin, and Assistive Technology.
Each one of these projects are tools to help me as a future teacher to
use with my students so that I can incorporate technology in my classroom.
My strong points include creating the concept map,
Storybird, and the Movie Story. I felt
like these were my strong points because I was able to be creative and design
things the way I wanted to. The concept
map assignment I thoroughly enjoyed because I was able to pick out a topic of
choice which was dance. The Storybird
assignment was fun because I could create my own story with pictures that were
provided. It would be a great activity
to do with students because they could be creative but it would not be time
consuming since the pictures and templates are provided. The Movie Story was by far my most favorite
assignment the whole semester. I worked
very hard on that assignment and I felt like it turned out really great!
My weak points included Wordle and Assistive
Technology. Wordle was really confusing
to me because I did not understand the setting up process. I also had trouble navigating a few areas of
the Assistive Technology assignment. I
plan to improve both of these weak areas by using both of them more and getting
more comfortable with them. I plan to
use all the technology tools I have learned about in this class to use in my
own classroom.
There are many ways to
integrate technology into the classroom.
Some of the ways I plan to do this is by using the internet to go on a
Scavenger Hunt, explore places you could never visit with streaming video,
create a web quest, finding current events, and research information on certain
topics. I would also like to allow my
students to use Word Processing to compose a story/ news article/ book review
with clip art or graphics, expand vocabulary by using the thesaurus, comparing
and contrasting things using a Venn diagram, using timelines for projects or to
record historical events, and publishing a class newspaper or flyer. There are so many more ways to incorporate
technology into the classroom but those are a few ways I plan to do it.
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