Smart-Board= WOW

The past couple of weeks in technology class have been a lot of fun. We have been working with Smart-board technology. I will start by saying that the Smart-board notebook is incredible. The possibilities are endless. I have spent way too much time playing around with it and seeing what is available. It is easy to see how a teacher can spend a lot of time creating lessons and activities. There are many places online that give teachers access to resources for the smart-board. Many teachers create lessons and activities and make them available to others. Using these resources will not only save time for teachers but give them starting points for creating their own lessons. In the Notebook software there are tons of multimedia tools. They have pictures, interactive and multimedia, notebook files and pages, and backgrounds and themes. For my lesson with shapes and colours I used a tool called activity builder. This allowed me to create pages where students were to match the colour to the word and if one was wrong it would bounce back and if it were right it would stay in place. I will defiantly use notebook and smart boards in my practicum and hopefully in my future teaching.

Blog Entry

Well this blog is a little late for my technology class but better late than never. This class is so much fun and I have learned so much. The internet is has unlimited resources and I have used and learned about so many that I have never heard of.

A couple of classes require us to write a blog and I enjoy them as it is something a little different than writing a journal or having to hand something in. Online there as many different websites to collaborate with others. Our delicious site is a resources with a wealth of information.

The amount of sites available to present or tell a story is incredible. Even within our class there were many different sites used and mediums, from comics to slideshows it was endless. The site that I used was Narrable. It was an easy site to use and I can think about so many ways to use it in the classroom. Using it for lesson plans, instructions, and student presentations is just scratching the surface of what is possible.

Now we have moved onto using Smart-boards. Many teachers I have had at the college just us it for slideshows and the internet, but with using notebook you can create anything. I can defiantly see myself using it when I am teaching from doing attendance to teaching lessons. I see it as a glorified powerpoint presentation.

Technology is constantly changing and it is fun to constant bye learning about it.