My E-Portfolio

Another great way to explain who I am.....Please enjoy my portfolio it was a lot of fun to create it! http://web.me.com/david.a.betsy/Daves_Portfolio/Welcome.html

The end is the end....

  Blogs, glogs, smart lessons, and you tube channels.  I conquered them all Dave style, well for now any way, I say that because this technology business changes daily.  Therefore, the most important thing I learned was that I must change daily.  Fortunately, we have a wonderful mind that allows us to understand this premise.  The key really is to keep in touch with technology or you may find yourself going from digital native to digital immigrant.  How can I not incorporate technology in my classroom?  It is the current method of getting through to learners today.  I can't even focus very long without some hand-held device or screen blinking at me.  The endless benifits to technology can be summed up in one word efficiency.  Our personal wants are determined on how fast we get the desired result.  The correlation of worth to time.  The challenge currently is the investment in which I devote my time to technology.  Where as technology for the next generation is a standard, currently we must strive to gain knowledge in the technology field.  Other then the life lesson listed above a tangible lesson that I will take with me would be the video in the classroom project.  For one, it was so much fun, secondly the time invested results in an everlasting memory.  It was not that long ago, in eight grade I created a video project with a classmate.  Of course that was VHS tape during that technological epoch.
In summation, the class brought forth several technologies I.E. you tube, who would have known I have followers, that's right people subscribed to my page, and I don't even know them, crazy right!?  As for now I can only continue to absorb and reflect on how the class has changed my personality and understanding towards technology.

The Good the Bad the Ugly

It was a little difficult finding some great portfolios most are non-working.  The first was http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/insideteaching/
This was organized and the colors were a nice mix, also it was easy to navigate.
The bad http://kids-learn.org/
It did not have a great color scheme, or pizzazz, plus it did not match the authors official name, "technology intergration consultant."

Finally Organized

O.k. Tech Class I got myself organized and the videos are posted for public consumption.  It is a Three Part journey.  So please watch em all... Oh yeah it is OK to laugh... Plus don't forget to comment on any of my videos I would love to hear your comments!!!!http://www.youtube.com/user/80s90s10s?feature=mhum

The Presentations

First, I have to say everyone did a great job and I understood everyone's articles based on their presentations.  I am amazed at the talent that our class has and it really pushes me to try to keep up with the rest of the class.  Josh's MP3 was out of this world with talent, and had me tappin my foot and really focusing on the lyrics.  Julie and Mike's glogster was great I have to thank Julie for all the years of video game playing. The prezi by swaffle, was awesome and I will definitely use that in the future.  Paula's video was very informative and Judy really let her personality come through in her video.  I really liked Ryan Marie video it was very eye catching.  Mandy did a great job as usual and she brought light to a very interesting subject. Julie G did a great job with her points of interest in her glogster poster.  I think the only other thing I would like to know is the rest of the articles the class reported on.

who knew we would be arguing with a board?

A light has been turned on,  in a recent trip to a third grade classroom I was able to witness the use of a interactive board.  Although it was brief I have reflected on what happened for the past several days.  The lesson was on multiples of 2 or 4 and it was set up in a Van diagram fashion.  The result of the lesson showed me that there are certain issues that with interactive boards.  The user friendliness  of the board was an issue, the children(just as myself found) was very hard to write on the board.  To answer you second question I will never deny a resource, fortunately I will be in a trial by error business.  The hope of every lesson I present will be to influence a child in a positive way.  The smart board can do this.  I think the biggest asset to the smart board is that it opens up yet another door for a person to express the knowledge and ideas that they may have.  Lastly, engagement of students is not based on quantity or presentation of subject matter.  It is the quality of subject matter, engagement of the students in my opinion is sparking an interest in a students life.  Simply put if you are interested in the subject you will want to know!

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