Week 2

•         Today in class we learned ways to incorporate technology and social media sites into our classroom. It was really interesting . I liked the ideas that others had about using Smartboards in the classroom. The video we watched about the kindergarten class using the Smartboard to learn words was so cool.    I not sure how I feel about kids that little using so much technology (smartboards, ipads ect), but it is a great way for the students to be interactive and enjoy learning. Another useful tool that we learned how to use was Twitter. I am not a big Twitter fan myself and did not have one prior to yesterday but, I  must say that it is a good way to stay connected. It's a good way for a class to be able to interact with their fellow classmates, whether its about school work or outside of school things. Lastly, we learned about all the ins and outs of powerpoint. I thought I knew how to use powerpoint pretty well but clearly I was mistaken. I did not know how to use the hyperlinks and switiching from slide to slide. That was really cool and very useful for using in the classroom. I will defiantly be able to make my power points more interactive and fun for my students!
              I could defiantly use these tools in my classroom. The one that I would probably use the most is the smartboard. When I was in high school we used the smartboard a lot in my Statistics class. It was a great way for us as the students to be interactive and come up to the board and solve problems.  It also makes things a lot easier by not having to constantly erase the board every time you ran out of room and you could save the work and work on it the next day if you ran out of time. I could not see myself using social media sites in my classroom. I do not think they would be beneficial in any way in helping the students learn. I think I could find a way to use an ipad in my room, but i most certainly would use the smartboard. 
  
  

Some of the ISTE standards for Teachers we used this week were:

• 1d, because we learned how to use power point more efficiently in our classrooms and really engage the students in using power point and learning from it. Not only how to use the program but academically.  
• 2a,  for the same reasons as 1d, we learned how to use power point to promote creative student learning.
• 3a, would also be a standard that we used today. We talked about the difference in today's classroom and the classrooms that we grew up in. A lot of us didn't use smartboards or ipads when we were in school. So today we learned ways to switch from the old to the new. 

Some of the ISTE standards for Students we used this week were :

• 1a, most of us had pre-existing knowledge of how to use power point but I know that I learned a lot of new things ie: hyperlinks. And I now can incorporate them into my future power points.

• 6a, we must understand ourselves how to use these applications in technology in order to incorporate them into our classrooms.