Surprisingly, October has come and gone without any real hitches, and yet even more applications have been introduced. One of the many that I didn't care for was TodaysMeet, which is a backchannel app that allows people to post comments in real time. Perhaps I am old fashion, but TodaysMeet felt like a disorganized media mess and would easily turn me off from using it in my professional field. It lacked structure, something that I find to be important in my media life as well as personal life. Moving on, we also had to use an app called Blackboard Collaborate for two synchronous classes in which students delivered presentations for other Web 2.0 tools. I love Collaborate, which is a program that can be downloaded for a thirty-day trial period, and think that it would be a wonderful investment for schools that are trying to integrate technology without allowing it to run rampant. Also, another app that I had previously dismissed was Evernote, and after having it explained in detail by a classmate’s presentation I would like to say that it is actually a lot more useful than I had originally thought. Evernote can be synced and accessed from any device, can be used as a collaboration tool, and can snap photos and record audio among a few other things.
I also loved working on my two technological artifacts for this month; The Digital Story and the Web Treasure Hunt. It was fun having that free range of creativity and I think helped develop a sense of self as far as teaching goes. The artifacts, in my opinion, reflect what kind of teachers we will be as well as what kind of learners we are. I also love the link from Edudemic that Prof. O’Keefe provided, 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Of course there are a few on there that I think should be discarded, but there are some on there that I think all teachers actually should know about. I like that it links everything that is listed and allows teachers to try out what’s listed to see if it is something they will find useful in their everyday life and/or teaching life. I also think it’s neat because I really do not think that most teachers are as app happy as their students, so they might not have come across the applications without them being introduced in this list.
I also loved working on my two technological artifacts for this month; The Digital Story and the Web Treasure Hunt. It was fun having that free range of creativity and I think helped develop a sense of self as far as teaching goes. The artifacts, in my opinion, reflect what kind of teachers we will be as well as what kind of learners we are. I also love the link from Edudemic that Prof. O’Keefe provided, 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Of course there are a few on there that I think should be discarded, but there are some on there that I think all teachers actually should know about. I like that it links everything that is listed and allows teachers to try out what’s listed to see if it is something they will find useful in their everyday life and/or teaching life. I also think it’s neat because I really do not think that most teachers are as app happy as their students, so they might not have come across the applications without them being introduced in this list.