Blog 10: And it's time to say goodbye

It seems like just when we are beginning, we are coming to an end. Sadness, I know. But in the progress of this semester, I have learned about so many different facets of technology. The one aspect I would like to learn more about are the wikis. We briefly flirted with the wikis during this semester, and I have yet to really find out what we as educators have to benefit from them. Seriously do we?

I would like to go back to examining websites that are similar to the ones I talked about in my last blog. These websites are part of a growing number of websites dedicated to creating exercises appealing to different multiple intelligences. I think as we enter the new millennium, these websites are going to become increasingly popular. There's also another website called FunBrain.com, a site dedicated to providing similar games to elementary students.

Fun Brain.com proves that the educational field is continuing to bridge technology with teaching. Could we see assessments becoming purely technologically assessed? A lot of groups today, while presenting their grant cited that technology is an important assest to a student's success. I am a very progressive individual, and I for one would try to use technology as much as possible. I feel that teaching will never be totally replaced by technology, but I feel we will see more of an integration.

As a teacher about to embark on the fundamental classes, the lessons that I have learned here are invaluable. We have learned some of the best time saving techniques that are available to teachers. I think to further my knowledge of technology, I would have to continue to be aware of new developments and learn them. Microsoft Office 2007 was hard to grasp, but some of the things I learned on 2007, I now use on 2003. It just coninutes to show how cumulative technology has become. Oh where will we go next?