Technology for Educators

As we come to the close of this class, I realize just how many possibilities there are to use technology in appropriate and useful ways in the classroom. A screencast tutorial might come in handy for training students in my yearbook class as they are trying to learn to create pages for the yearbook. Students could use a podcast for a variety of reasons in my English classes such as poetry out loud readings, discussion circles, sharing study skills, etc. A detailed web quest could be self-guided by the students and even left with a substitute so that time away from class is not wasted time. Weblogs are a wonderful place to explore new ideas of your own and others. Most of all what I have learned is that all of this can also be used for other useful applications. My husband has already stolen some of these ideas and fine tuned them to work for his job. We really do have to use all of these things for the advancement of humankind at every opportunity and not just for watching cat videos!!