Assignment # (the last!) 7

This blog post is in answer to a series of questions, so I am going to divide it by the numbered questions.

1. How have you used technology to contribute to some domain of knowledge?

I feel that I was best able to contribute to a “domain of knowledge” by putting my you tube video up about how to dance the Charleston. This has allowed me to share some of the things I have learned in school with anyone who happens upon it. I also enjoy blogging about my teaching experiences so that others can share my good ideas, and in the hopes that I will soon be able to garner ideas from others who blog about teaching.

2. How have you used technology to collaborate with classmates?

This term I have been able to use google documents on several occasions for group projects. In this way, my group members, who had very strict schedules, were all able to edit our presentation without all being at the same computer at the same time. I have also been able to read classmates’ blogs to get ideas for my projects for this class! Finally, I have also used technology to make a video record of the teaching I have done, so that I can let others observe and hopefully better understand what dance education is.

3. How might you use technology in your classroom?

I am really excited to use technology in the classroom! Especially so for a class website and blog. These can help my students be able to always have a place to go to remind them of assignments and can help the parents easily update themselves on what we are working on in class, without sending home a plethora of notes and handouts. In addition, I hope to be able to use online quizzes and presentations, so that homework can be varied from the classic worksheet after reading in a textbook. Finally, I may be able to teach my students about technology by teaching them to use a software to create videos, presentations, or other projects, which knowledge could greatly help them in the future.

4. What did you learn in this class?
I learned a lot about how I can easily incorporate technologies I already knew a lot about into my everyday classroom as a teachers. I also learned how to create a website, which I had never done before. That was my favorite project for sure! I learned that technology can be used without taking over the material for a lesson and that it has a legitimate place in the classroom when used appropriately.

5. What will you use that you have learned in this class?
I truly plan on using a class website and/or blog, and I also already love to make videos, and will continue to do so. Also, for my final project, I learned about using photoshop and I plan to use that software often in the future.