Visualizing with Technology

In my classroom I want my students to feel comfortable to express what they love to do and who they want to be. With have students that are able to do as the 6^th grader in the video about creating apps you are having great tools to be provided to your students. Visualizing with technologies is teaching and showing students new ways to learn and grow with the changing times. It is new careers that teachers can prepare their students for. Also, teaching students with visualizing with technology makes your classroom more interesting because students have not learned in that style before. In my classroom I play to use visualizing with technology to help students better their education and their futures.

I believe that visualizing with technology has a huge impact on the use of technology that you can use in your classroom with your students. When using visualizing technology in your classrooms it gives your students something to look forward to, and also it gives your students another tool to express themselves through. Having this can help your students learn about technology and also help them grow with technology. When having students work with visualizing technology in class you can use this to help make the activity interesting other than just pencil and paper that they are used to using. Students that are using technology are ready to learn because they have an interesting tool that they are getting to use. 

Podcasting

Over the past few years I have seen the changes that have been made with broadcasting, but I never knew it had a name. Podcasting is something I knew was out there but just thought it was the new version of broadcasting. Watching the video and reading over the information, I use Podcasting a lot! With working and going to school I never get to watch my Saturday night TV series. With Podcasting I am able to download the series whenever I have time to catch-up on what I messed from when it aired on Saturday. I believe that podcasting can be used throughout the classroom like as the example on the YouTube video of information from a different country and also if you watched something at home on TV that you felt your students could relate to through an activity you can download the video and show it to them in class.  

I believe that Podcasting and Web 2.0 are very similar in very many ways. I believe that they are great tools to use in your classroom for technology by showing a video and with communicating with your class. Web 2.0 and Podcasting have made great improvements in the way that we all use technology today.  Podcasting is a tool that you can use to show students that you would never been able to show before. So as Web 2.0 as a teacher you did not have great tools like Wiki, Social Bookmarking, and Voice Thread. With having this great tool in your classroom you are able to improve the child’s education so that they will be able to succeed and at what they want to prose in life.  

I own an IPhone and an IPad, but I do not use my IPad as much as my little cousin does. My cousin is three years old and has had trouble learning how to talk. In the past few months he has been going to speech therapy where he works with a SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) for 30 minutes every Monday. One of the tools that she uses is an IPad and he loves to play on it. After observing him a few times I went home and download some of the games that she had on her IPad. When in just a week of him playing the educational games on the IPad and on my IPhone I could tell a dramatic change in his speech.  I believe that using this technology in your classroom is a great and funny tool that the students are willing to use and learn at the same time. I think that online communication has its advantages by giving the student another way they can contact the teacher and also other students when they need help. But with a disadvantage of always having some problem with technology, maybe the server was down and the students couldn't figure out how to do their homework or maybe they wanted to let the teacher know they would not be at school and the teacher did not receive the email.