Week4

Most of the links I added to Delicious are resources provided by our EDUC 411 professor Peter. I also found Kevin's presentation on Podcast at McGee secondary school.

I realized I have never practiced what I preached. As an upcoming information technologist, I always encouraged fellow educators to use technologies in their own classroom. Yet, that was something I rarely did in my own classroom. Before this semester, YouTube and PowerPoint are the only technical tools in my own Math classrooms. I have used Excel to solve Math problems but I didn't have a chance to teach that to my students during my 401 practicum. I was motivated to change my habit. I began experimenting some of the technological tools like [] and [] recommended by Josh in my EDUC 411 and 415 Math problems. Both the two pieces of software and Josh are awesome. I also tried using [|Geometer's sketchpad], another Math tool that is highly praised by several Math educators. To advocate the use of technology in Math classrooms, I guess I have to start using technologies and establishing a habit to adapt them personally first.

I spent some time looking at [|Carrol's blog] and [|Andrea's blog] this week. Inspired by the FrontRow Sound system, we share our thoughts of teacher's voice in a classroom. I also shared the the various available collaboration channels with [|Isamu] in his blog and over email. I started to realize I am spending more time "collaborating" with classmates and researching online than reading textbooks and finishing my other courses' assignments this week. My preference to collaboration may be an indicator of my personal preference of the more instantaneous media.