Last Blog Post!

Well here we are the very last blog post for IP&T! I kinda already gave a semi to last post, when we did it in class. But I guess this really is the last blog post. If I was to pick the most useful technology that I learned this semester, it would be learning how to make the class website, and then using a the movie maker. The class website is so useful for any area of teaching, we live in a technology base world so being able to access and create a website just for your class is so useful. The the movie maker is a bit more catered to my style dance education. I could see myself using that to make videos of my students dancing, or using it as a teaching tool. There are many ways I could use both of these technologies in my future years of teaching. I think the way I am going to be able to have my students be active learners is doing hands on activities to critique, watch, and keep record of their dance pictures and films. Using photobucket they can create slide shows of them using their dance pictures, they can use the movie maker to make videos of them sleves or of each other dancing. And then of course using Audacity to learn basic music editing that they could then use to make up a dance. There really are lots of options. I am glad I was able to take this class because I have learned things that I will be taking with me in my future teaching years!

What I have learned...

I am not going to lie, during the beginning of the semester I really didn't think this class would be that applicable to my field of study. But as we have gone through the rest of the semester I have learned some new types of technology that I can use later in my field of dance teaching. Now I am going to be honest and say that I don't think everything we learned I will use later on but that is ok. That's what happens when you are combined with a field of study that has the potential to be very technologically based such as English. But overall I am grateful for this class and I have found that with a little time and patience I can learn new technology. If I am to look back on the semester we really have learned so much about different technologies and that really is awesome! This is a class where I will walk away with knowledge that I can take with me and that I will use when I start teaching someday! So yah for technology!!!