WOW!

"WOW, I'm done with my wiki! And I want to tell you some things." At the beginning when I just got the class I thought it was going to be fun and easy to work with technology but as I was advancing I was really struggling and realized that I was afraid of technology and, I sometimes blocked myself causing me to spend hours trying to figure out how to do the assignment that should be done in short amount of time. Eventually when I could do my first lesson plans I realize that I was enjoying it because is creativity, of course it took me time to realize that I was doing art, I was creating! I am proud of everything that I did. I think my best work was: //all about me,// when I talked about myself and my philosophy of education. It was interesting seeing my pictures in you tube. I know that with animoto, podcasts, vocaroo I will encourage my students to learn in an interesting way by listening, looking and playing around when they get to do their own projects. What I would do different next time is that I will take it easy and not get so anxious, because technology is interesting and fun, If you realize how important and necessary it is. It is the 21st century way of learning so we have to be at the vanguard of learning. My concern though is that there are so many schools that don’t have high technology such computers, for students to use in classrooms and also there are so many low SES schools, where students don’t have computers at home. If I get to work in a Low SES school, I would do pieces of the lesson in the computer so students can take turns to work at least a little bit every day with technology. As Spanish teacher I think technology will help students to learn the new language in an interactive way. They will be creating at the same time that they will be learning.