What I have learn and How I will use it.

I have learn so much from EDM 310. I doubt there are many students who have taken this class that have known less than me. When I began this journey in EDM 310, I barely knew how to turn on a computer. I certainly didn't know anything about blogs except to read my daughter's blog. I had no idea what podcasts, Google, Google Docs,spreadsheets,iTunes or Twitter were all about. After taking this class, I can successfully pull up www.Google.com and find out everything under the sun I need to know on any subject.

Blogging
I love blogging. I didn't realize how therapeutic writing could be for me. I have learned how to put pictures in my blog and how to use ALT modifier,Title modifier in an IMG tag to allow a blind person text when they encounter a picture in my blog. I know I will be using blogging in my classroom. It will be a great way to communicate weekly to my students and their parents. With blogging I can post homework assignments, and classroom events coming up. I will be teaching my students how to blog and have them creating their own blogs to share with their classmates. I can't think of a better way to express oneself.

Podcasting
I thoroughly enjoyed learning how to do a podcast. This will also will a useful to tool to use in the classroom. I would like to do weekly podcast with my students using it in learning centers where they would listen to a particular subject we might be studying. I would also want my students to create their own podcast. It would allow them to be creative on numerous subjects and share their own ideas with fellow classmates.

Delicious
I am sure Delicious will become a valuable tool in organizing websites that I will find useful for my school work. It will certainly become a method for shortcuts; linking me to lists of the most popular and useful bookmarks that I will need. I can't wait to add more to my present list and view other teachers and friends bookmarks.

iTunes
iTunes will be another helpful tool for me to use as a teacher. I found iTunes University to be one of the most exciting sites so far in the tech world of internet. This site will definitely help me as a teacher and help my students to collaborate in many new ways. It will also make web-based research easy and safe for younger students. The mobile learning aspect of iTunes will mean learning no longer has to happen at my desk but can happen any where if we have the right equipment. With iTunes, I will be able to give my students and their parents access to free educational content round the clock.

Access
Access means Alabama Connecting Classrooms. It allows Alabama High School students to have opportunities to receive advance placement electives and other courses they may not otherwise be able to get. As an educator it will provide me with many technological tools and added classroom multimedia to better my instructional resource for my students and me to use.

Alex
Alex means Alabama Learning Exchange and for someone who is trying to become a teacher or someone who has taught many years ago, this site is a wealth of information on the standards of Alabama education. It will be a site that will help me create lesson plans on whatever subject or age level I am teaching. It will also give me web links to other related subjects to expand my curricular guidelines. Alex will be a site that will save me a lot time in lesson planning.

Picasa
I am sure Picasa and power points will go hand and hand in my classroom. I love power points and what student doesn't like to see pictures that have a story with a message in it. I know I will use it in my classroom. I feel it is an effective way to teach and as the old saying goes "A picture is worth a thousand words" is very true.`

Google Tools
I know I will be using Google tools in the classroom. Spreadsheets, documents, form builders, and presentation creator are tools I have learn to use in this class and another class I have been taking. It has opened a whole new world of creativeness for me. Spreadsheets I will use in many different ways such as in record keeping, names and addresses of students,etc. The use of spreadsheets with my students will come in use with multiplication tables, currency tables and many other different ways in math, spelling, and history lessons. Document tool will allow my students to write stories, letters, poems, and book reports. Hopefully I will be able to teach them how to save their work to share with me and their classmates. Presentation creator would allow my students to be very creative and produce presentations for everyone to see. Google Tools has opened a whole new world for me. I will no longer have to draw my pictures by hand or write my stories on notebook paper, or use magic markers to make title pages. With Google Tools, I can go wild and make my work look really professional.