Week Three!

   Well, it's the end of Week Three already, and I learned a couple more things this week! First off, Google Docs. I had absolutely no idea what Google Docs was, nor had I ever even heard of it before in my life. So I guess it was kind of interesting to see what I could do with it. I was kind of worried that I wasn't going to be able to figure out how to add my own column in the table because I had never done it before, but that was another thing about it that wasn't so bad, it was easy to use! I found out how to add my column to the chart, so I was happy I didn't have to spend like an hour trying to figure that out. I also thought it was kind of interesting how it resembled a wiki. I wonder if there are a lot of other sites and places people can go to do collaborative work other than wiki or Google Docs..it makes me want to go find out..kind of!
   The other things we did this week that was pretty interesting was read about the teacher standards. There were a lot of things on that page that teachers should do, and a lot of them were actually good points and things that we should think about really getting used to. The one thing I thought was interesting was that teachers really are expected to keep up with the latest research on all of their techniques and technologies. I just kind of thought that it was something they figured teachers were supposed to do, but nobody ever really enforced it. I guess that's why one of my professors is already trying to get us into the hang out looking out for new research that comes around about teaching strategies and stuff like that.
   All in all, it was a pretty okay week three! Hopefully I keep learning new things in here, at first I was kind of expecting to have this be just another computer class, but I'm glad I'm actually learning new things!

-Jenna :)