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I would like to add that I enjoyed doing the smartboard lesson project within the classroom.  When I was doing an observation a teacher was using one to teacher her lesson, not only were the 1st graders eager to go to the board and partake in interactive learning....so was I!!  So when we had the opportunity to put a lesson together using that software I was excited.  This tool will defintely be used where ever I will be teaching in the future.  With that being said I hope that where ever I do teach will have the adequate funds to allow the teachers to incorporate such techonogy in their classrooms.  Funding can be a down fall when incorporating technology into schools because it not cheap by any means.

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Incorporating technology is important in a classroom because now in order to grasp children's attention is to do something that they like and enjoy.  Since it probably safe to say that all kids are introduced to some form of technology they would like to have it incorporated in their favorite place to be......school!!! Yayy!!  Some of the benefits to having techonlogy in the classroom is that it could increase class participation because the students might be more eager to be out of their seats while learning at the same time and also not to do that same repetitive lessons from the book time to time.  In this class I have learned that all technology is not easy and you have to learn what works for you.  Also there are plenty of different learning materials that can be productive in the classoom setting.  Coming from someone that is not all that technologically inclined at times I found myself struggling but after playin around with it for a little while I was able to understand the basics and maneuver around to accomplish what I needed.

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Reflections on Presentations

Matt's IPhone presentation was a good idea.  So good that I did my presentation the same way.  Using his phone was an easy convenient way and probably the last way that people would thing of as to use to present something.

Suzanne's glogster was about the history of using animation in the classroom.  Having animation within the classroom is completely relevant in today's society when dealing with the younger aged children.  Look at all the kid movies out today they are animated so that's what they can relate to.

Gina's glogster about preschoolers and technology was right on point.  After reading it I realized how much technology these children come in contact with at such a young age.  I can't even think about what technology I used when I was 3 or 4.  Nowadays they have the leap pad  and vtech computer for children that promote learning and then they have the more fun technological devices like the DS and any game system.