In this blog Beth is a prime example of how technology in our schools can help tremendously. She blogs about how she used Skype to have another educator present in the classroom. The good part about this blog is that she didn't even mean for it to happen the way it did. She was simply using skype to personally talk with the other educator and then realized she was up for her annual teaching observation. Even though she was worried about something going wrong or what the principal would think, she left the skype up anyway. The outcome was awesome! The students communicated and were helped by someone who wasn't even in the classroom. Beth says it was like having an assistant to help her out. She also states that the principal loved this idea and everything turned out wonderful.
My First Workshop (Week 14)
In this post Beth is talking about how excited/nervous she is to be in charge of her first workshop. Her audience is a group of teachers from Nebraska whom want to learn how to stay connected with each other. They also want to know ways to make their lessons more easily accessed, shared, and web enhanced. She talks about teaching them about all the wonderful tools offered by Google. Programs such as spreadsheet, and power point, basically the same ones we use in this class. I really liked reading this post because it sheds light on the fact that everyone is starting to see the big picture. For students that are in school now, they are learning about these tools as they go and for the teachers who are older and do thing the old way, well they are learning it too. It really goes to show how much technology is growing!
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