Yes i me and bettina are very confident in are lesson plan and we are somewhat ready to teach the class next week. I think that the class this semster was just fine it was fun for me and i truly enjoyed it.

Yes I would use voicethread in my classroom. Voicethread is the new technology I believe (but I could be wrong), that most teachers are using in their classroom. You can have group conversations any where in the world with voicethread and you don't have any software to install. So yes using voicethread in the classroom is a very good idea.

My power point project is going really good my partner and i have only three slides left to and we chose to do cell phones in the classroom. Yes having a partner is easier and makes it faster working on a power point presentation! And i like my partner very much she is very nice!

1) I think there is nothing wrong with using the technology that your students use. As long as it is relevant to the course study. It would help keep your students interested in what you are studying in the classroom.

2) I do think that online chats and Instant Messaging could be a use in teaching our students. It is the current technology we are all using we use it on Myspace and every where else to keep in touch with our peers, why not use it in the classroom to keep in touch with our students. Not only that but chat rooms and Instant Messaging your students could be really useful to help them at home while they are doing there homework.

3)It is usually better to in my opinion, to have face to face communication with your students and their parents, but sometimes i have to agree with the book it is not enought. Asynchronous conversations is important but i dont think that it is more important then face to face communication. You can't lose touch with your students by using technology all the time yeah its good to use when you are in a hurry but you can easily lose touch with your students if thats all you use to keep in touch with them. All these forms of talking and having conversations technologically can't take up what we have been doing for years, talking face to face with our peers.

4) Using podcasts is just a new way of passing information now a days. Everything today is do it as fast as you can doesn't matter if its right or effiecent just do it in the least amount of time possible.

5) Using videogames in the classroom can and cannot be a good thing. If you are teaching little kids it could be a new and creative way to get what you are trying to teach them through to them to where they understand it. But if you teach middle schoolers and high schoolers and you use video games in your class room you can kiss learning anything good bye. Because all its going to be about in the classroom is about playing video games.

Yes i do think that all students learn differently because they do have different personalitys. Everybody learns at there own pace, some are quick learners some are slow learners. Yes i do think that by knowing all the different personality types and knowing my own personality type which is INTJ well help me better understand and teach my students. Because i'll know all the different types of personalitys and i will know how to approach them. The better you understand your students the more likely you'll be a successful teacher you can also be a successful teacher by being understanding to your students home enivornment which can play a major role in there personality. Being observant and understanding will get you far as a teacher.

After using microsoft office excel in class on monday i would say that yes i would definitly use microsoft excel in my classroom. It would not only help me keep up with my classes but my grades also. It makes grading so much easier because you do not have to rely on a calculater and sometimes i know that when i am using a calculater with a long stream of numbers i have the tendancy to skip numbers, if i use excel in my classroom that is less likely to happen.

The three main functions of excel is storing, calculating, and presenting information. In a class room all these things are important you have to be able to store all your students grade information in a place where you now you will not lose it. I have a bad habit of losing things when they are not all together and when you are using microsoft office excel all your grades are together and they are safe, unless you erase them by accident! As i've said about being able to calculate all your grades without skipping numbers is very important you do not want to screw up the students grades because you skipped some numbers by using a calculater instead of a spreadsheet, that would be a bad thing! And as for being able to present information you need that as well so you can show charts and graphs to your students in your classroom to help with a point your trying to make or to show a bettter example.

I think that this chapter is very interesting and so was the inspiration video was also just as interesting. Both have given me pointers on how to teach my classroom of high school students how to write better papers using inpsiration and technology. As i am going to become an english teacher all these things will play an important role in my classroom. Now as for the children of today they are so lucky to have all the technology that they have they are learning things so early in life that by the time they become sophmores in high school they well now what i know now as a junior in college which is not only amazing but it is also terrifying to know what more technology we will come up with on the internet to help write better papers.

Okay i like using blogs no i do not think they should be used in the classroom for teaching purposes cause i do not see in any learning from it except for people to vent there opinions.

There are many different ways to use the technology in the classroom like co-constructing knowledge with wikis and blogs

Introducing myself again!

Hi my name is amanda robinson i am from emory texas during the school week at Texas A & M commerce i live at smith hall on the weekends i live with my boyfriend david siebenthaler in alba. I am an english major and i plan to teach high school students! Right now my spanish course is killing me already and its only the second week of school! And i've also already forgotten some homework assignments! Doing good already!