Reflection on Ch. 1-3 & 6 of Blogs, Wiki, Podcasts

The readings about technologies role in the classroom has opened my eyes as to what kind of technology can really be used in the classroom. Before this reading I thought that using technology in the classroom meant that computers or laptops would be used and for schools that had enough funding those students might be able to have the use of iPads and Smart boards in their classrooms. In no way had I thought before that blogs would be used as the journal time in today’s classroom. I was also surprised that parents were using twitter along with the teacher and the students in order to keep up to date as to what was happening in the classroom. After reading this I think that using blogs in the classroom is going to be the norm someday soon. It has proven to be a great thing as it is actually getting the students to want to do their homework and go into more depth with their responses to each other’s blogs posts. One thing that I will do differently as a future teacher, after reading, is to set up some kind of assignment that involves blogs for my students. After reading how successful it is in classrooms, this should be used in every classroom across America. I would also like to split the assignments up for the year by having half of them be completed online in one way or another and then having the half of assignments be traditionally done in class. So it would end up being a hybrid class. However, if my students were doing better with the assignments online, I would find a way to make most of the assignments that way then.