Class+Reflections

This page is a reflection from my __EEC 0810-620 __ Technology class. Setting up a Gmail account was one of the most rewarding 2 minutes of my life. I mean seriously, just putting in a username and password has allowed me to finally access all that Google has to offer and I still have so much to explore with its software. This software has impressed me so much already that I have sent away for new buisness cards Setting up a Gmail account was one of the most rewarding 2 minutes of my life. I mean seriously, just putting in a username and password has allowed me to finally access all that Google has to offer and I still have so much to explore with its software. This software has impressed me so much already that I have sent away for new business cards with my new Gmail address. Another assignment was to create our own personal blog. I have been on numerous blogs in the past for many reasons but until now I have never took it upon myself to create my own blog. I named the blog the same as my new Gmail name of LIScubaDiver so I think I will use this as the theme of my blog to report on scuba diving on and off of the island….we will see. Oh, ive added a cluster map so check out my blog [|www.liscubadiver.blogspot.com] !!!  **Class #2: ** The presentation today blew my mind. I have known about text to speech read back for many years but I had no idea that Microsoft Word had the available technology to perform speech to text. The presenter was very intelligent, and had a passion for teaching and incorporating technology into her classrooms (along with being amazingly attractive **:)** ). Haha but regardless, I found this technology so great that as soon as I got home that evening I introduced it to my father who hates typing. He was blown away with this ability, just as I was.  Today’s class introduced me to Google Documents. While we also went over advanced research techniques and Google scholar, I was already accustomed to these technologies. The usefulness of Google Documents is clearly apparent and I feel that what we did in class is only a small piece to this great technology. Being introduced to this is definitely useful and I can see many ways to implement it into my classroom. While I pride myself at being pretty technology savvy, I will admit that I never fully understood what Rss feeds were until today. I was happy to finally be able implement this technology into my blog as I have seen on so many other blogs in the past. Also we went around the internet trying bring together as a class a collaborative list of useful web resources that would be great for use in the classroom. In today’s class we had to choose what our topic was going to be for the class collaborative group Power Point Presentation. I chose Google Documents for one main reason. I believe that if I had to give a presentation on such an amazingly useful technology, I would become so familiar with it that it would become second nature for me to use it in the future. The guest speaker in today’s class was very informative for his knowledge of the Classroom and how technology and in particular Wiki’s can be used in the classroom. During his presentation the program Jing was discussed, which was a technology that I am semi-familiar with and have used a few times. I decided to change my group power point presentation topic to the technology that Jing offers. PRESENTATION DAY!! Today’s presentations went great. I thought my presentation went pretty well although I felt awkward as the presenter standing in front of a computer instead of a presentation board and talking in the direction of people who were not paying any attention to you, but staring at their computer. I guess this is something that I will have to get used to, as technology becomes more and more incorporated into the classroom. The technology that I found most rewarding of the ones that I had not already known about was Brain Pop. I thought the presentation was done very well and I had no idea about this website so I am grateful that it was brought to my attention.
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