Sadness

Last night Sean Taylor a safety for the Washington Redskins was shot in the leg in his own home. the bullet hit his femoral artery, he lost a lot of blood and went in a to a coma, he died this morning. Its just sad that we are not safe in our own home anymore. This post may not have anything to with anything but i just wanted to express my sorrow for the Taylor family, and my prayers go out to them.

Classrooms of the future

I think that it will be at the same level. The rich schools will have the nice stuff and the poorer schools will not as good stuff. Mainly because of funding some schools will never get enough money to get all of these expensive things. For me that is ok because i don't want to see every classroom completely dependent on computers. Computers can be used for a lot of things, but to completely take out using your hands to cut out paper or learning to write with a pencil would be terrible. Computers are already taking over the world, but what would happen if all of the computers crashed. The generation that is coming up now would be lost because they don't know how to do anything outside of a computer. We need to use computers but we should not have to depend on computers

On The Playground

The other day i was outside helping out at recess when this little girls comes up to me almost crying but not quite. she tells me in her little voice that a group of boys are picking on her and hurting her feelings. So i ask her where these kids are at and start walking over their. As we are walking she puts her hand into mine and holds my hand. it was so funny because she was just this tiny girl, we probably looked really cute anyways. So i get over the group of three boys and i stand right over them, and with a deep voice i ask if they are picking on her. i was trying to act intimidating because i wanted to scare them a little. Then i told them to go play on the field and the little girl said thank you and hugged my leg. It felt good to help that little girl and feel important for a little bit.

Questions

1. What is your goal for technology in education?

2. If you could have one piece of equipment for your class what would you get?

3. How important is technology in schools these days?

4. What tools have been useful to you?

Smart Board Activity

I can't really answer some of these questions because me activity did not cover a couple of them. Like i don't have a link to my activity because i have no direct link, it was just a game that is available online. I could not find any specific standard for my activity. I played jeopardy online so it could be used as a trivia game, or a game just to waste time and have some fun.

My goal in this assignment was to show the recording feature of the smart board. when you activate the record feature you record anything that comes up on the screen which is a pretty sweet feature. So for my activity i decided to play jeopardy, the game is found online, i picked jeopardy because it is a fun game that you have touch the screen to pick than answers. So it used the touch screen feature of the smart board, plus i just though it would be fun to play in class.

For me personally i am going to be a P.E teacher so i will not be using this technology very much, passably never. If i was not teaching P.E there is a possibility i would use the smart board because it is a fun interactive tool. I would probably not use it all the time because it could get old quick, but i would defiantly bring it out every once and a while. As for right now though i would not use the smart board just because of my situation, i have no need for it.