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Final Reflection

If I hadn't believed that the education will completely rely on technology in just a few years from now, I wouldn't have chose this course. I don't want to reject the traditional methods used in education, but I think that Teaching with Technology doesn't necessarily mean alienation of students from eachother, it's just the opposite: it can enhance their curiosity, motivate them to work in groups, but also to help them to communicate with eachother in an easier and more effective way.
Although I wouldn't used all of the programs and methods suggested on this course, I'm glad that I was provided with variety of choices and see for myself what are the exact methods, exact programs and ways of improving student's performance while studying and using Technology.
The Powepoint presentations, for example, are a great and interesting way of expressing your ideas in a clear and persuasive way. Besides that, students are required to go one step at a time while preparing the presentation, in terms of elaborating their ideas and bringing them to life, which means choosing the topic they want to talk about, putting an emphasize on the most important things by including it to their Powerpoint material, but also take care of the impression they will make on the other students by their choice of details in Powerpoint. The method is quite good because it requries an effort which is interesting enough to make, and it is student centered, because you can get the opportunity to adress directly to your colleagues and enable them to follow your presentation through the interesting visual material that the Powerpoint provides.
Although I disliked couple of programs, e.g.the Painter, which is pretty boring, slows down the working process and and decreases the motivation, I think that the students should be introduced with it because education is all about giving different choices, several of which can be combined to get to your goal.
Modern educational methods, which are inevitably connected to Technology, require intensive and interesting group work, as well as a very self-motivating individual work. That's exactly what the Teaching with Technology provides: a great amounts of motivation, based on interesting, vivid, visual and audio experiences, leading to the enthusiasm that we all need in order to be sattisfied with ourselves and what we do. Webquests were a wonderful example of that, because they included group work, exploring, investigating, thinking and combining different information and details.
As I said in the beginning, Technology was not invented to alienate people from themselves and stick them to their PC's, mouses and make their PC programs their only friends, it's just the opposite: using Technology in education processes will definetely save some time, lead to effective work with valuable results and create people who will definetely enjoy they job because they will be challenged and motivated enough.

Reflection 6

What:
Today we've learned about web quests, how to make them.
So What:
It is very interesting think that can be used to motivate our students to meet the new cultures and to use search engines to find the information that they need to solve the problem.
Now What:
I think that with using a web quests my students will learn more about other cultures, languages, and many other things that will be on interest for the class and the subject they learn.

Web quest

Introduction

The director of the museum asks us to find out as much as possible information’s about the great battles in World War II. In this exercise you will need to provide us as much as you can information’s, photos, and everything that you can find about the great battles that happened in the World War II.

The Task

1. Explore the internet and all historical information’s to find more appropriate information’s
2. After you will find the information’s check the information’s reliability
3. Find out the conditions and weather that was on the time that the battle happened.
4. Find out the type of weapons that has been used in the time of the battle.
5. Find who was the generals that lead that battle
6. Find out the year that the battle has happened

Resources:

WORLD WAR II

Second World War in timelines

World War 1939 - 1945

The process:

When you will find all necessary information’s you can create an presentations about World War II and all the weapons that have been used in the time of war. Also you can create a flyers and brochures about that period.

Conclusion:

By doing this web quest my student’s will learn how to search the internet, and we will learn more information’s about the great battles in the World War II and about the war itself.

Reflection 5

What:

Today we worked with presentations made in power point. This type of teaching is wide used around many schools and faculties.

So What:

On today’s class we were make a presentation about our impressions on the ISUM and one presentation that will tell more about ourselves.

Now What:

I think that I will use this kind of teaching in the future because it is useful and we can give all the knowledge that I prepare to give the on much more easier and funnier way.

Reflection 4

What:

Today we’ve had to work with graphic’s by using the computer program for paint.

So What:

With this program we’ve need to draw our shoes and it was pretty interesting to work in this program. I think that is pretty harder to draw a painting using a mouse instead handwrite.

Than What:

I don’t think that in the future that i will use this program to teach my students because is really hard to make a picture with a mouse and it needs lots of nerves to do that. It was interesting to try but i think i wont use technology to draw a picture. Honestly for drawing a painting i prefer the old fashion way (drawing with a free hand).

My Shoes

This are my favorite shoes
I hope you will like them ;-)