My Second Blog!

   Well, it's time for another blog update! This week in the Ed Teach Class I learned a few new things to add to my knowledge about the internet and technologies. This week I learned a lot about the different tools that are out there for teachers to use in the classroom and while trying to produce fun activities for the class to do in school. One of the tools that I thought was especially neat was TeacherTube, it was almost like YouTube except..educational! I didn't know something like that existed. There were a couple more things I didn't really learn, but got a better grasp on. While doing my PowerPoint I really got the hang of finding backgrounds for my slides and adding animations. I'd done it before, but never really had the time to think about what I had just done..it was more like a last minute kind of add-on, but this time I think I will actually remember how it was I did it!

   I definitely think that I know more about technologies now than I did when I was in even the 5th grade. Back then I did not know how to make charts or use anything on the computer that well, I don't even think I knew how to type correctly! Now I know all sorts of good things about the tools we have available to us just by having a computer. It will definitely come in great use when I become a teacher because I will have so many ways to get the students to learn. I can make a comic strip on the online tool, or make a PowerPoint, even make a puzzle for them to solve that is related to the topics I teach them in class. All of these technologies I've learned about so far will already make it easier to teach, I can't wait to find out all of the other cool things there are to use when we get more into this class!