Blog # 8

In this videos "This is How We Dream Part 1&2" The speacker has very good points. Most people my age are not able to write in multimedia. I know I am one of thoes people. I have learned to do more in this class than I knew before, but I don't think I know near enough as I should to be prepared. I have noticed most times though that most work is done on an apple computer. Something that plays in my mind is does apple make this process eassier or does my PC work just as well? Is this a particular thing I am going to have to worry about when I start teaching? These are just a few questions that poped in my head as I watched this.

I do belive that we as teachers are going to have to be able to do this. For one it will make learning alot more fun and interesting. We could even get our kids envolved in our project. That is a way we could teach the is by group participation. That way we are helping them too. They could help pick the topic, or they could even help do research. This way of writing will change how we will teach more and more over the years. As I have stated before I feel that with the technology we are given we are getting closer to not doing anything on paper.

I belive our students will learn how to do this with ease. most children today can do more on a computer that a grown person can.I know for a fact that the two kids I nanny can do way more on a computer than I can. Dylan the 14 year old can tell me what I am doing wrong and if their is something wrong with my computer he can tell me. I do not think we give our kids enough credit for what they know. Im our extra assignment the children learned how to do something in four mintes and had never seen a computer before. I belive our kids might even know this before we do.

One thing I think that would be very beneficial to do a video on is the fact that this class is really important. After my first day I thought that it was just a waste but looking at it half way through the semester I have learned so much. We do videos all the time about the end what about the middle? All of these videos are very helpful because they make you think about how really different this class is and the fact that procrastination is no the answer. Not only that life is not always easy. Chipper proved that with out drive and looking for easy ways out you wont get fare. In the end she went to the long road to make her life better.
In both the articals about Smart boards both of the authors feel that they are not useful. One author even goes so fare to say that they could find more efficient ways of doing things in his room than using a smart board. They both believe that it is a waste and that the money could be spent somewhere else in schools besides something else that the teacher stands in front of. Both don't have really positive things to say about them. Their are other options that are not as expensive and that are way more useful than Smart Boards.