EDCI 505 Post #2

Hello again!!!! I have learned even more about technology since my last post.  I will have to say that I have liked some of our assignments, and I can see me using them in the classroom, but I have not liked some other assignments.  Some of the assignments I did not like because I would personally never use them in the classroom.  That is the neat thing about technology.  Not everyone has to like or use the same types of technologies.  Everyone can use technology in a variety of unique ways.  If teachers use a variety of different technologies, than students will have the opportunity to work with different types of technologies and form their own opinions. 

I had some positive and negative feelings about the graphic organizers that we made.  I like the idea of a graphic organizer, and if gives students a different way to look at, and learn material.  It is also a great way to introduce a topic.  The problems I have with graphic organizers are first they can become extremely confusing when you have a more complex topic.  I want to teach middle school education, and I believe the more complex the topic, the more complex and confusing the graphic organizer becomes.  Also, I personally believe that we hand students graphic organizers ALL the time.  I believe that they simply get old after a while.  I wish there was another way to display this information without using a graphic organizer.  I also had positive and negative feelings about the googledoc assignment.  Once everything is set up, and all the formulas are in place, GoogleDocs is a great resource to use.  On the other hand, I do not believe that GoogleDocs is very user friendly when trying to set up a grade book.  I thought it was very time consuming and frustrating at times, but in the end I guess that is what technology can be like.  These are just some of my thoughts on the past assignments that we have had in EDCI 505!