Post #6

The information I see publically on Darnel Cookman Middle/High School am Ms.Fiser’s AP Biology and Case Studies were different tabs depending on the class. The front page has a a link for the students to take notes on. On the tab with 16-17 case studies it has a list of what the students will be doing for each day they attend the class. The AP Biology link has a miscellaneous page with a safety agreement, Resources for investigation and Labs and the Power points of the 3 units that will be covered throughout the year.

I envision myself using technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities by knowing how to do mail merge to keep my student’s parents inform on important things they will need to know. I will also use Desktop publishing because According to Chapter 7, it will let me have a format for flyers, forms, invitations and newsletters that I could use to present information in a different way other than a Power point. Electronic spreadsheet also will benefit me because it will allow me to store data in an organized manner. It could also make calculations easier. Database management will benefit me in terms of Queries which can assists students in practicing logical and critical thinking skills.

The smart board was in the tech sandbox. The smart board can be used as a interactive tool in the class room because the smart board is touchscreen teachers can run different educational programs on it. It is relatively easy to each and it can take the place of the basic whiteboards in most classrooms. It can used for notes taking, you can even allow your students to play games on it on it and you could even examine 3-d figures. For example, if I was a science teacher and was discussing the components of a cell, I could actually give my students a 3-d picture of each component and a location of it.