This course has really shown me how technology can be integrated into lessons. I enjoyed learning about pod casting and discover that it is not that difficult. However, I am realist and have to admit that I probably will not use it in my lesson during my first year of teaching. I would eventually integrate it into some of my lesson especially a lesson for when a substitute has to watch the classroom. I can see how pod casting really beneficial for students that are not able to attend school on a regular bases due to a illness. Even though I may not be a master of pod casting, however I feel I now know enough that I could allow my student to use it as a medium to demonstrate their mastery of a concept.
I am also doing my field experience this semester and I have not seen a lot of the technology discussed in this course use regularly in the classroom. I wonder if this it due that teachers are not aware of all this technology or they just do not have time to integrate it into their lessons. I think it is the latter teachers do not have enough time to create lesson and to create pod cast to integrate into the lessons. There is a learning curve in understand the working of pod casting and for that fact any of these other programs discussed in this course so far. Hopefully we as teachers catch up with our students that see to know and understand how to use this technology from birth.
Signing off to work on the next assignment, webquest.
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