teacher's domain

teacher's domain offered a lot of interesting resources. There are several videos and ideas of how to use the full video and clips with lessons. I thought the video activities is a good way to incorporate learning outside of the classroom. Most young adults watch a lot of TV and if they learn how to think about video's in an educational way they may apply that type of thinking to TV shows and movies they watch on their own time

Thinkfinity

Thinkfinity is such a great site! I can't believe the amount of information and resources available from this site, for both teachers and students. It's amazing how easy it is to access so many diverse lesson plans. Thinkfinity is also a great starting point that will introduce you to other resouces and websites for educators. The lessons and games seem really inovative and modern wich is impportant in the aspect of getting students interest and making learning a desired fun experience.

sooo this week i'm supposed to blog about any technology...ohhh so many options. Well I guess I'll talk about facebook. I'm a college student so I guess there is no way around escaping my mild addiction to facebook. Facebook is great it helps me stay in contact with old and current friends, family members, and peers. Even for the podcast assignment my group members and I were using facebook as a tool to communicate. Granted I'm usually on facebook looking through recently posted pictures of everyone's eventful weekends when I should be doing homework or something more productive with my life but that's not the only negative thing about facebook. I recently found out about a virus that is being passed around thorugh facebook...YIKES! I guess you get a message from one of your friends that says to watch a video clip with the link. To see the "video" you must download a plug. Well long story short it's a virus soooo DON"T OPEN IT or your computer will die! Why are there so many viruses anyway? Who has the time to create all these viruses and what's the point? What are they getting out of making people miserable?

ugh...well that was confusing! I've only bloged a few times before and that was just for another class. I thought setting this up would be easy but I ran into some unexpected problems...first I couldn't use my new paltz e-mail address because I had already used it for the other class. I decided to use my old e-mail address that my sister made my account for when I was 12 or something so the actual address is kind of embarassing "ppanther" yes I used to LOVE the pink panther. Anyway after overiding cookie handling I have finally created a new blog. I guess this experience goes to show me that although I consider myself adept with computers there is ALWAYS more to learn especially with how fast technologies are updated and changed! The youtube videos shown in our first class had some fairly staggering statistics that prove that the world is fast paced and will continue to change with the continuous introduction of new technology.