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on the threshold of an educational revolution

all the teachers who are willing to take a risk

I have always been hesitant to engage them in an argument of any kind.

Lack of training, hardware/software, and time were at the forefront of their argument;

complete paradigm shift.

discussion, writing and debate can have on a student.

shifting their thoughts

I have been laboriously scouring the web in search of interactive tools that will allow me to integrate technology into my classroom. I have battled with the notion that social networking sites are ruining wholesome communication, fought to obtain hardware, software and access to particular sites for my students and I have even set aside my preconceived notions to discover the benefits of certain tools within the classroom

Countless hours have been spent delving into applications and tools, time that has been taken from my family, friends and sanity.

teach students the 21st century skills they so desperately need

I intent to introduce my students to it next week. I hope they will be as excited as I am about the concept.

I realize that this class has opened a whole new world to us.

Students can use their cognitive skills and stretch their imaginations beyond any limits in the 21st century.

As educators we strive to positively reach all of our students; but often don’t ever interact with all of the other professionals in our buildings.  This is a problem. 

While I may not be in an ideal place to utilize technology with the students I see, I am in the perfect position to use technology to enhance teaching and learning with my co-workers.

I’m hoping that utilizing Google docs will do this for me.

my trip to the world of educational technology

This is the impetus for me to continue to further develop more uses of technology with my students.

I always thought about learning how to use wikis as a way to respond to reading novels in my class but felt I needed someone to guide me through learning about it.  I haven’t had the time yet to incorporate a wiki in any of my classes, but I am teaching a new course in the spring semester, and I think that I might have the opportunity to try it out there.  As far as I can tell, the course’s curriculum doesn’t seem to have many big technological highlights, so it  might give me the opportunity to engage students using a new medium.  The class is 10th grade on level, which is a step below college prep, and those students might benefit from the ability to engage in discussion outside of class and use a hands on way of doing it.

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truly engaged and had a good time doing it

they really had an honest reaction of surprise at how fast class was going.

ultimately share this idea out there in cyberspace. 

Each week is a new innovative tool that sparks my curiosity and makes me want to learn more about it outside of the classroom.

so they can have extra practice on topics they struggle with.

I should elaborate during future classes.

o this project?

survey my colleagues

I created a teacher website that had many activities that I found on thinkfinity.org

Researching a new technology each week has been inspiring

And continue this cycle every year.

I am thinking that I want to use the technologies in my tool box as assessment tools but as

free time today

to help them review.

So, the idea is to have an alternate assessment at the end of each chapter. The alt. assessment will be created using one of many technologies we have discussed in our class (ex. animoto, flipbook, comicstrips, prezi). At midterm I plan on assigning a larger project, more cumlative of course.

What do you think?

it was crucial for students to have the rubric in hand when their animation assignment was assigned.

The students still seem un-easy about this new type of assignment.

I can show all of you too.