Blog # 10

I feel like I learned a lot after watching the ERIC presentations. All the groups presented information that was helpful in someway. If not directly to our future classroom, but information that is good to know as a teacher. Using technology in our future classroom is extremely important and it was interesting listening to various ways, views or areas of technology that we can integrate.
There were various subjects or things that grabbed my attention during the presentations. Through this course, I have realized how important it is to understand the benfits and be prepared to integrate technology into our classrooms. I thought the presentation on the digital divide was interesting because it is very realistic that we may not have the means to have adequate technology available for all of our students. We will have to find alternate ways to introduce students to technology and be creative in doing so. If the digital divide is nothing to worry about, then use the computer in lessons by utilizing kid pics, kidspiration, neighborhood map machine and other software that we will be learning about this week at the software fair. I enjoyed hearing about what we can use in our classroom; areas that will be applicable in our future classroom. Also, I felt that the science integration presentation was helpful. The Quest Atlantis simulations look like a neat resource to use. Overall, I felt like the presentations were done well and provided useful information!