Weekly reflection and Video

Everything Google

In class this week we learned all about google and some of its tools. I had never even known a lot of these things existed. It was fun to learn about them. The Gmail documents is something I think could benefit a lot of people. I wish I had known about it a long time ago. For a long time I only had open office and a lot of the word documents couldn’t open up on my computer. With this you don’t have to have word and everyone can use it for free. I think this can help benefit the kids so they can collaborate together on assignments. For example if my students have to write a script they can review each others' scripts and leave comments for them to improve.

The calendar portion of google is a neat way to keep classes and schedules organized. I seem to be on the computer a lot and if I can have my schedule right there telling me what I need to do, that is very helpful. As a teacher I could put my classes in and reminders of due dates and things and help them out that way.

igoogle is another cool tool we learned about. One benefit I can see with this is how you can pretty much put anything on your page you need to get to quick and easy. It can save you time and as a Drama teacher you need all the time you can get!

Video Reflection:

The video I watched was,”Introducing Web 2.0”. It introduced many different websites some of which I knew and others which I need to look into. I didn’t know there were other Wiki sites. I only knew about Wikipedia. It talked about how in this age of media collaboration could be taken to a new level. I think this is true. With the introduction of new media tools people can communicate from any place. As a teacher this can be beneficial to communicate with the students as well as having the students communicate with each other.