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Journal #1

I believe that technology in the classroom in so important an beneficial to broadening the learning environment. Last fall, in a women's writing course I took at Towson. our teacher had us take a week out of our curriculum and have the class meet at the library instead of our regular classroom. She had a media specialist teach us how to use the school site to find research materials online and even how to locate it in the library for a hard copy. The techniques she taught us were so beneficial. Our teacher made a scavenger hunt of things to find around the library and on the Cook Website to hone in the skills the media specialist had taught us. Not only was it a fun creative way to get to know the library and easier ways to find research information. but it proved to be very beneficial and I have used the techniques every semester since!

Journal #2

I saw technology being integrated all throughout high school. Overtime we had more and more frequent visits to the media center and would be taught lessons on how to use tools such as course catalog to help find information and were also taught how to use the internet at home to find appropriate websites and online encyclopedias to use for research projects. I will reach these levels by taking classes such as this ISTC class, and in my classroom by finding fun activities to do on a computer with my students that reinforce the lesson I will be teaching. My teaching philosophy in relation to teaching is that technology in this day era is imperative for students to know, but they must be taught to use their own resources first I believe, before they should be able to log onto the internet and go further with their educations. I am a firm believer in having basic skills down pat before introducing secondary and outside techniques!

Journal # 3

The web 2.0 tools I would probably use the most would be the animation tool, simply because I am planning on teaching a middle-high school aged classroom and that would be a great, entertaining way to hone in the skills that I would be teaching in my classroom. As a future educator I have plans to integrate many technologies into my class, web 2.0 being one of them, but not for primary instruction, but more as a tool to ingrain skills and facts into my students. I believe in 5-10 years there will be an abundance of computers in schools, and that it will be a more streamline way of teaching the students. I think the challenge will be keeping up with my students in the technology field. Similar to teachers of my age learning how to use the internet, I will most likely be at the budding of a new technology and need help keeping up to date with it.

Journal #4

After reviewing the websites, I knew that copyrighting what a way of protecting peoples works from being copied or reproduced without being credited to, I also knew that it was to protect the owner of the work and their work from being stolen or duplicated. I didn't know however that "public" ideas and facts were off limits which made me think, what exactly is a "public" idea or fact anyway? I also didn't know that copyright laws protected unmade work that could be based off of a previous copyrighted idea.

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