Technology+Reflection

The nice thing about this project was that it gave us an opportunity to work in groups in order to familiarize ourselves with the SmartBoard which we will use quite often in our classroom. Working with someone from another discipline also helped give me some perspective about teaching. Negative things include not using the AirLiner and not using the SmartBoard as much as we could.
 * Technology Reflection:**
 * SmartBoard Project:**

The podcast assignment was fun and gave us all a chance to work with audio recording equipment; I can't speak for everyone else, but this is the first time that I've had to do that. I liked how much time we had to complete the project and how simple to use the program was to operate. Drawbacks are how long it takes to make even a short recording when you focus hard on editing the podcast.
 * Podcast:**

This project was probably the least helpful for me. While I can see the purpose of this program for elementary teachers and many teachers in other fields, I find it hard to use in secondary math. However, I liked how easy the program was to use and as a teacher I could use it to challenge myself to find a way in which to use the program to best help my students.
 * Inspiration/Kidspiration:**

This website gave us an opportunity to use a wiki-style webpage for the first time. Also, having a running project such as this helps us stay responsible and working hard throughout the semester. However, I'm not sure this style of webpage is one that I would use for my classroom. It is effective and easy to use, but I think other formats, even though they might be harder to use, could be more effective for secondary math students.
 * Wikispaces:**

This project was pretty much the culmination of everything that we've learned in education classes involving technology. I like the fact that we had to use many different technologies in the final product; this served well as both a review and showing a practical application of each technology. I think that having enough time to work and polish everything before presenting it to the class was very helpful; also, getting to see everyone else's presentation gave us some things to think about that we may not have considered before. One thing I didn't like about the project was having to have a video. For our group, I think that we might have been better served learning the video program doing something else instead of including it in this project. Otherwise, I think the project went very well.
 * TIP Project:**