Week Seven: Reflection

For this week's technology project, I decided to create a lesson using Google Earth, Microsoft Office Publisher, and wikis. Google Earth has so much to offer. I spent way too long exploring the shipwrecks that are found beneath the oceans surface on Google Earth. I also watched a few video clips about some of Jacques Cousteau's underwater adventures. I could have spent the entire day just looking around, so I figured that students would find this just as interesting...and could probably accomplish WAY more with it than I could. ☺ I chose to use a wiki for this activity because I really have enjoyed using our class wiki to share the things I have been learning and to look at what other people are learning also. So...again I figured that students would enjoy this type of presentation for the brochures they created. As for using Microsoft Office Publisher to create the brochures, I figured this would be one of the easiest means for making a brochure because many templates are offered for users to simply plug in their own information or the user can begin working from scratch.

Although I am not teaching right now, I will keep this lesson in mind when I go back to the classroom. When I was in the classroom before, I didn't use much technology in my lessons because I knew how to use very little technology. I still am not proficient in many technology aspects, but I do have more confidence when it comes to trying to learn something new. I hope to be able to successfully integrate lots of technology into my daily instruction so that my students and I are continuously learning. I also expect that my students will be able to teach me a thing or two about using all sorts of technology...things they will have been using since they were in diapers, I'm sure . ☺