Technologies

My first reaction to the youtube video on college students relating their life and education to media really grabbed me. I thought that how it was set up, no one narrating, just having the students hold up signs or type out a message on a computer screen was really powerful. It made me think about if I use technology correctly in class. I have brought my laptop to class and not used it for educational purposes. But then again, we've had more learning opportunities with our computers at hands reach. Also interesting to me was about the hours we spend doing things during the day...and there just isn't enough time. Just those simple facts that were stated seemed to really speak to me, and probably many college students. I showed it to my roommate and she also found it interesting and true of the college students life.
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The second video from Professor Wesch was a little more confusing for me to follow. I am still somewhat unclear about Web 2.0. I understand it's Wikipedia and youtube videos, and its no longer HTML, but its XML. But the whole formatting thing, still confusing to me. We are creating what we want to see online now, that is what I gathered from all of this.
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I am beginning to wonder where Jo found all these videos... They are very informational. The third video on integrating technology into the classroom I found to be very true. However, students like us going through college to eventually become teachers are learning about this technology, so hopefully we will utilize it more often. It's the veteran teachers that this message really needs to reach to. We were part of the generation that grew up in this technology era. Using technology in classes is becoming more and more common. I have yet to see how a cellphone and iPod can be used, but hopefully I will see that day. As long as we're paying attention to what is happening and evolving in the world of the students we teach, we can keep them engaged by reaching to them through their own likes and connections to the world.
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This fourth video did not seem to have as much of an impact on me, why I am not quite sure. I thought that we all knew for a while now that computers and the Internet serve as a great educational tool. When Chris Walsh was talking to the Google guy, I was a little confused. This video definitely did not have the impact that the others had on me.
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The last website that I looked at was interesting in the fact that it classified into Type I and Type II technologies. It really made sense when he said hat Type I was like a typewriter and Type II was like word processor and how the way of writing has evolved. I did not find this article to have as much of an impact on me as the others did, and basically all I pulled from it was that we need to integrate technologies into our schools somehow.
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