Week 3

Another week down!! I am trying to get the hang of my.uen but this past assignment was a little harder for me! I am enjoying learning how to use this amazing site. It has such great resources that I will be able to use as a teacher! I am enjoying this site!

I love learning about all of the resources we have as educators! There is so much available to us in the click of a mouse! It is truley amazing and I hope as a teacher I will be able to take advantage of all of these amazing things! There is so much available!! I never knew it all existed! Thank you for opening my eyes to all of these amazing things!!!

Week 2

I have a feeling I am going to enjoy this class. I really enjoyed making My UEN page. This past week I was talking to a few teachers in the school where I work and they went to visit a couple different elementary schools to get ideas on what they want to do for our faculty room, as I was talking to them they talked about how cool the new school was because it is a paper-less school. All of the kids from 3rd Grade through 6th Grade have laptops on their desks and they do everything there. They send their assignments straight to their teachers. It made me think a lot about this class and how great it is that they are using that kind of technology in the classroom. I was also discussing with some of my friends that same thing and one of them said "I think they need to take technology out of the classroom" I highly disagree. His argument was that he gets distracted so easily when he has his laptop in class that he doesn't learn, but I think that if there is a better way to monitor what kids are doing in the classroom it is a great way to learn. Those kids are going to be at so much of an advantage that the kids in the school where I work that hardly get computer time.

I am learning lots in this class and I am enjoying it!!

My First Post!

This is my first blog post for Computer Technology in the Classroom. This first class was very good. I have thought a lot about how we can use technology in the classroom to help our students. In this world technology is so prevalent and it is so important that we can integrate it into our classrooms. I have seen many children who don't know how to type and it is so fundamental in this world. I loved the video that we watched in class that was full of all of the different ideas that we can use. I have never thought of half of the things that it talked about. I am excited to use those ideas in my classroom one day. I know that kids love technology and it is all they will use in work and throughout their lives. I hope that I can be a good educator and that I will always be able to learn new things about technology. Everything in this world is changing so much and I am so excited to keep learning!

I am looking forward to learning in this class and I know it will be very beneficial for my future students! :)