Technology Blog

There were many times that we used technology throughout this class. Computers were the main piece of technology that we used both inside class and outside of class. This course was basically a hybrid course because we spent so much time on the computer. I have never done anything with a wiki or a google doc before and I really liked doing those in this class. I have now started doing google docs in my other classes because it makes group projects so much easier since you do not have to find a time to meet. It allows you to work on it separately even though you are not meeting together. We used the forums on sakai and emails to communicate with each other and to send in assignments. There were many other computer programs used in this class like Microsoft word, excel, powerpoint, inspiration, geometers sketchpad and panopto. The NCTM website was a very helpful website and I really enjoyed reading the articles on there because I learned a lot from them.

In the actual classroom the smartboard was another piece of technology used. I have never used a smartboard before and after using it in this class I really want one. It is a tool that is interactive with the students and seemed to make teaching a lot easier. I liked that students can just write on it like it was a chalk board I thought that was so cool. There was also a camera that we used one day in class. This camera was a really neat piece of technology that we had in the classroom. I was trying to think of ways that this could be used in the math classroom other than the number line activity. We could have also used this for the measuring with a non-standard tool activity. It would have been interesting to watch everyone go around the classroom measuring the different objects. Calculators were another tool that was used in the classroom that is technology. We did a calculator activity in class and I have never used a calculator that was not graphic that could do all of those different types of problems.