Week 7

Today I presented on technology in the classroom. I can’t lie I was pretty nervous. I’m not sure why I get so nervous in front of 7 of my classmates and my professor, but I am completely fine when I am in front of 28 students. I guess that’s one way to tell that I am going to be a confident teacher. Doing my presentation on technology in the classroom, I ran into some difficulties with the technology. One of the key points that I went over is how important it is for a teacher to be prepared when working with technology in the classroom. For me, I am so used to working with Mac computers, and unfortunately the computer at the school is a Windows, so I ran into some difficulties with that. Some of my titles were not aligned the way there were on my computer, also one of the YouTube clips I posted was the wrong link. But after the presentation was over, I felt great. After the technology in the classroom portion of the class, some of us shared out Fakebook/Facebook pages. I really liked Matthew and Sarah’s pages. Matthews was on evolution and I just thought it was very clever and a great way to keep students entertained because it related to them. I definitely think that working with the Fakebook page was difficult and at times frustrating. I think it would be an excellent idea for someone to create a website template page for educators, such as Fakebook, but a template page that is much easier to navigate and work with. I wish I had the creativity and the time to do it!