Website

I thought creating a website was really helpful.  I learned a lot about creating a site that would benefit students.  Some of my favorite ideas were online assignments, and podcast for review, but the feature on my site that I liked best was the questions widget because it allowed my students to ask a question at anytime.  I also thought that the workshop last week was very helpful, and I really like the extra links showing us how to do things like embed video's into a power point.  Overall, I thought this was one of the better assignments, but what if our students don't have computers at home?  How do we communicate important information like this to them?  That is only flaw I found with the project, it assumes that students have this type of technology available.

Jan. 30 W-401 Blog

I thought that the power point presentations on breeze was pretty cool.  It worked pretty well with only a few minor setbacks.  The entire time I was thinking about how cool it would be to be able to use this to help students with homework or something along those lines.  I thought the information provide in the power points was really cool,  google earth could be a great lead into a new unit, Skype could be used to communicate to people far away like a senator, all of the technologies are really neat.  The only thing I really didn't like was that I could always hear people on breeze, which made it difficult at times to pay attention.  I think I will use Skype in class, because I like the idea of using it to contact a senator, and have him/her talk to the kids about the issues that matter to them.