Technology Blog

Through out this semester of Math Methods we used a lot of different technologies. From day one we used the SMART board. I found this to be a new amazing technology. It was really interesting to be able to write on the board without an actual marker. One day in my classroom I hope I have the availability to use a SMART board. We also started our first small projects with the WIKI. This was a very useful tool as well. The reason I really enjoyed it was so we could see how much work each person actually did. You would be able to see when people worked on the WIKI and what work they actually did. The only problem was that two people could not work on it at the same time. We also used GOOGLE doc which was more beneficial I feel than WIKI. I enjoyed it more because multiple people could work on it at the same time.

We also used the math applets. I thought this were extremely entertaining. I really enjoyed searching for different ones and playing with all of them. It will also be useful in my classroom one day even if the only technology I have is the computer. This is because my students will be able to use the computer and access all the different math applets. The applets will be a fun way for students to learn new topics and enhance old topics on the computer. Today in class we used the calculators as another technology. These calculators have came a long way since I used calculators in grade school. The calculators are very user friendly and actually show you the numbers in the correct way. I really enjoyed this feature. Overall, I am very thankful for all of the technology that we learned about in math methods this semester. I can not wait to start teaching and actually getting to use some, if not all of these technologies in my classroom.