Final Blog Reflection!

* What do you feel is the most useful technology (or teaching approach) you have learned this semester?
The most useful technology I learned this semester BY FAR was learning how to create an effective website.

* How do you plan to use this or other technologies in your future teaching?
In the year 2010 I am SHOCKED by how many teachers do not have a website for their class. It is very easy to create and even easier to maintain. As a teacher you can tell you students who miss class to simply check the website for what they missed. You can eliminate the need to print out 1,000 copies of one handout for you 500 students because they will lose them, you can just point them in the direction of the website. You can post interesting material to them and enhance your student's learning in a very meaningful way. Students can also interact with each other if they need to, and in many cases they do need to. Every class needs a website or at least a blog and I have come to this realization through my IP&T class.

* How can you use technologies (the ones we learned or others) to engage your students in ACTIVE learning?
This is bit of a tricky question because most technology facilitates passive learning such as allowing kids to create an online poster and teach the class on the subject or showing your students how to use word to write a research paper. I think active learning technologies includes online movies, pictures and other media. Visual learning is the easiest way to facilitate active learning in our students minds.