Week 8

     This week in class we learned about wikis.  I think this presentation would have been better if we would have had it like the second or first week of class. The group could have done a tutorial on how to use wiki and navigate around the website. It would have been very helpful but instead it it was this week. I thought it was a good presentation though. I liked the video we watched that compared blogs and wikis with the two presidents. That was really funny and interesting. We also learned about self-directed learning which I also found very interesting. Then we used an awesome website to make rubrics which will be very helpful in the classroom and we also learned how to make podcasts.

     Every week it gets harder and harder for me to answer the question "will you use it in your classroom" because these are all really great tools that we are learning about to use in our classroom but it's just really hard to incorporate them into a math class. There are some things that I would like to use such as blackboard and stuff but things like podcasts and wikis would be very hard to use in a math class. But I do see how other subjects would be able to use these great tools that we are learning about!

     Some of the ISTE standards that we used today as teachers are:

• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments: We learned a new technology (podcats) and how to incorporate them into our classrooms. 
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning: We demonstrated fluency in technology in being able to create a rubric and work with audacity.

     Some of the ISTE standards that we used today as students are:

• Creativity and Innovation: We applied our existing knowledge of technology and computers to learn something new.
• Research and Information Fluency: We used a really cool website to make rubrics.
• Communication and Collaboration: We use our wikis daily.