Blog # 7

In this chapter we learned about how to evaluate the different types of technology that are available to us today. It also gives us different ideas on how to integrate these types of technology's into our curriculum. The chapter describes how there is alot of technology at our disposale in today's world, yet as educators you have to know what is appropriate to use and what isnt. Something is appropriate to use if: " it is suitable for the educational situation, motivational,must promote learning at the correct levels of student ability and academic acheivement." Teachers rely on all types of sources to tell them what is considered appropriate. Some of these are catalogs,published evaluations and conferences. I think one of the most important sources is opiniions from your couleges. These people have experience and will probably be able to help you.

Something that I learned over the past week was how to make a web evaluation sheet. This is something that was also discussed in this chapter. This is important because it is important to understand where the information you are looking for and it is reliable. Alot of people can post stuff on the internet and that doesnt mean that they are using facts or know what they are talking about. As students you have to be able to look at a website and take out what is important and look past the garbage.

Next weekend I am going home and Im very excited. It is a three day weekend and im happy to spend it with my family. Im especially happy about it because i dont know if im going to be able to go home for thanksgiving or not. My parents planned on coming up here since my brother and i are both here and they wanted to do something different. But now my brother wants to go home for thanksgiving so all the plans might get changed around. Im also excited because my birthday is in less than 3 weeks and when i go home i get to go shopping with my mom for my birhtday presents!