Week 5

       This week we had someone come in that showed us more about the smart board. It was interesting to have someone else's elaboration on what Denvy already taught us last week. To be able to hand write on the board and transfer it to a document style text like times new roman. The advantages to having a white board that can pull up the internet and incorporate other aspects of for the lesson without having stop to turn on the computer, make sure it is up on the screen and everything like that I can totally see the convenience of this tool.
      Another thing we did during this class was focus on the teaching standards. We broke it up into groups and presented out own sections. I was able to go over and get pictures from what the other groups had written down.

Our group was the fourth group and we talked a lot about the importance of teaching the students about being a citizen of the internet and being a role model ourselves. It was interesting to talk to the other group mates about what it meant to be a world citizen on the World wide web. The technology that we use can connect us to other cultures, and we can use a variety of technology to reach students of all different levels, and abilities. On top of this it is our responsibility as teachers to make sure our students know how to be safe, and also that they are not doing things like cyber bullying, and plagiarism.  I never had really thought about the fact that because we are all so connected to this vast array of information that it would be part of my responsibility to teach these kids, that probably will know more about how to use the newer technology than I do, about being courteous and safe.