This is a link to my Google Reader. I have subscribed to the topics that I find interesting. http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=wy#stream/user%2F07910065306116253811%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list This is one of the posts that is on my Reader Page from ESPN "Behind the Box Score, where the Clippers and Grizzlies nearly salvaged a terrible night of hoops (Ball Don't Lie) from Yahoo! Sports - NBA - Indiana Pacers News Memphis Grizzlies 105, Los Angeles Clippers 98 (series tied, 1-1) After a miserable night of basketball that saw the Pacers and Spurs win by a combined 54 points, a reasonably-competitive Clippers/Grizzlies contest was a needed tonic, but hardly much to behold. It was fun to watch at times as Tony Allen and Zach Randolph worked their way back to respective health, and Chris Paul featured his typically-pugnacious ways, but the back and forth never truly delivered. You think Memphis cares? They hung in this one, quite well, forcing 20 Clippers turnovers and essentially beating Los Angeles to every crease, or every either-way call. Paul was fantastic for most of the contest, totaling 29 points on 17 shots (our man hit 4-6 threes) with five steals. He also turned the ball over five times, to just six turnovers, and it was O.J. Mayo that absolutely hounded CP3 into oblivion. Relatively speaking, of course. Chris Paul, for the most part, was still Chris Paul."

This is my Diigo Library list http://www.diigo.com/user/jzap71023?type=all The way that I could use Diigo as a student in my University of Indianapolis coursework is when I have something that I have to read for a class and need to remember the important parts that I read, I can highlight those parts directly on the page, and save it. Then, seeing as I can also have Diigo on my phone, if I forget what it was, I can look it up on my phone to help me remember. As a teacher, this would be useful in helping remember the important parts of an online book, which would be cheaper than having to get a huge book to carry around. This would make my classroom more technologically friendly and easier to use in the classroom.

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This is a Google presentation that I created. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZAuLbYhou8jeFN7K4kZR9SNGvA8QNjoigcaqxslP4Xk/edit During the creation of this presentation, I noticed how similar it was to making a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. The thing about this that is better than PowerPoint is that it is free, as well as that it was very easy to use. Two ways that this could be used in the education field is by making a presentation to present new information to a classroom, or by using it to assign a classroom to a presentation using this rather than PowerPoint.

Technology 102 Assignment on Prezi

"> For our group's project, we decided to focus on a freshman algebra class. We found a picture of a chalkboard and set as the background. By using the doodle function on VoiceThread, the teacher could present the information, as well as work out math problems, in a creative way that would keep the students attention. At first, the problems would need to be very basic so that the students wouldn't have any problem becoming familiar with Voicethread, and then gradually make the problems harder so that the students are getting the most out of the lesson. I think it would be difficult for students to use many features on computers for math class, but I do think that Voicethread has many features that would be helpful for students. We used this standard in our project: 7. Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.

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Account on Voicethread

My account on voicethread is weinzapfelj@uindy.edu.

Twitter in Education

One idea that was brought up in class was the idea of using Twitter for educational purposes.  We broke up into groups and discussed how this could be possible.  Our group talked about how awful "ice breakers" are with the ffirst couple of weeks of class, and we went with that thinking, 'well what if we could use Twitter to introduce ourselves?' What we were thinking is that in the first week of class, the teacher introduces the students to Twitter if they are not already familiar with it.  Then, when the students are familiar, have them introduce themselves using Twitter. This would take a lot of the awkward ice breakers put of the equation.

Examples of Blogging in Education

A couple of examples of the use of blogging in education would be the two websites: edublogs.org and Wordpress.com. Edublogs tends to be used in a more educated sense and is addressed more towards a teacher/student interaction, in particular high school and college. Wordpress is more of a general type of blog and not necessarily aimed at education, however I know of a couple of college English classes that use the blog to reflect on certain classes or to bounce ideas off of each other for a paper topic.  In the English class that is my example, there are usually small comments made by the classmates if they have any general suggestions or if they think that the topic or the reflection is interesting.  As I am more familiar with Wordpress, I am able to give better examples of how this is used as opposed to Edublog.

As a student of education, and being from the generation in which technology is a vital part of our daily lives, I will more than likely be using blogs in order to communicate with my students better because as the years go on, the number of students that are going to use technology will only go up.  I think that the use of blogs in teaching can and will be an important aspect of teaching as time goes on.

Introduction

Hello! I created this blog for anyone who is interested in becoming a teacher someday and is confused on how some technology could be very helpful in the classroom.  I will be posting little bits of information periodically on information of different forms of technology that is being used today and/or some that could be used in the future.