How has your opinion of technology integration changed in the past 10 weeks?

Blog: How has your opinion of technology integration changed over the past 10 weeks?

My opinion of technology integration has changed over the past 10 weeks because I feel I have gained a wealth of knowledge about new ways or new projects to integrate technology in my classroom. As a current technology teacher, I found this class very valuable. I was provided with a wide range of resource to help integrate technology in the classroom, and new ideas that I was unfamiliar with

I was able to create WebQuest, which I feel would be very valuable to implement in the classroom as it is a virtual lesson plan that students are able to follow at their own pace. When creating the WebQuest, I realized these are the future of lesson plans. By creating WebQuests, teachers are storing their lessons plan digitally. WebQuests help teachers reuse valuable lesson plans, and also provides teachers with unlimited space to store lesson plans. Moving forward, I feel I would create more Lesson Plans based around WebQuests, because it provides clear instruction for the students and is a great way to store information and lesson plans.

Throughout this course my opinion of technology integration has also changed because I feel I was introduced to a bunch of great resources or project ideas, such as Ignite Presentations or the virtual classrooms that can provide a chat feature (I want this for my classroom so bad!!). The unique project ideas that were discussed throughout this course gave me a lot of new ideas for student projects, and also the new technology ideas gave me new ideas for ways to improve my existing projects. Overall, I felt the resources that were discussed and demonstrated were the most valuable tool that I gained from this class.

To say my view of technology integration changed does not necessarily apply, because I am currently a technology teacher... Therefore, I always believe technology should be implemented in the classroom :)