Blog day 5

Today we discussed the role of technology and the curriculum and how the objectives need to be decided before the technology can be applied.  The progression of having the technology, then choosing something to do with it seems a bit backward.  We looked at the Venn diagram for TPACK and discussed its purpose.

We then spent the rest of the class experimenting with various web sites that we could use in our classrooms.  We were exposed to Wall Wisher, Pic nik, Symbaloo and Prezi.  I am not too sure if I would use Wall Wisher, just for the simple fact that I could not seem to get it to work in class as we were experimenting with it.  I did, on the other had like Pic nik, Symbaloo and Prezi.  I could immediately think of lessons and outcome from the curriculum that I could teach using all of these sites. I think my junior hight students would go crazy over these site. The Prezi site would be so much more enjoyable for student to watch and to create for their own presentations.  This site seems so much more creative then the simple Power Point templates.

Now, you told us to write less so I will stop writing now, without mentioning how excited I was when I saw the Cooltoolsforschool sites for writing.