February
2008
The depressingly late launch.0
Hello! Welcome to my edublog, which will mainly focus on the impact of technology in children’s lives. I feel this will be an interesting experience over the course of this semester, as I’ve always had a rather.. “traditional” outlook at technology. Computers are very convenient nowadays, for writing essays or making spreadsheets and even making entertaining little powerpoint presentations, but that’s as deep as I thought it could go. Who would have thought I’d be made to create a videoblog in class!
I still remain a bit skeptical over the importance of teaching children about “podcasts” or “blogs,” but this is only the beginning. Three months can really change a person, and I hope that this little blog of mine entertains! It will be filled with more worthwhile content, I swear.
Now for some eye-candy! (Or eye-poison, as the image is really not friendly to resolutions at all.)
I was hesitant to post my mind map to my blog, but now that I think about it, I might as well. My e-learning class created this at the beginning of the semester, so this mind map is dated the 28th of february. We needed to state various technologies that could help teachers or students and have proved most helpful in the classroom. You can tell I went a little wild with the ideas, and my instructor even told me that some applications could be blended. Which is fair enough!
Be warned, the image is incredibly stretchy and I remember grumbling over how to compress it in class. Oh well! This was created in the application “Inspiration,” and I can always toy with it in the future. It’s ideal for making mindmaps in a clean and polished fashion, and I know mindmaps are pretty popular to use in the classroom. So there we go!
