Digital Collection

Using technology in the classroom is both exciting and scary! I really enjoyed learning how to embed a slide show within a classroom blog. By uploading images on the blog of a class field trip, a class project, the normality of our academic day I see this as an exciting way to share our academic learning with families.

In addition, using a scanner is such a wonderful way to save evidence of all the hard work a student puts into a group project, an art assignment, or to track the progression of learning over time. This information could be used with any or all of the students during parent conferences and/or M-team meetings. By recording a student's work digitally, it will permit the information to remain in a tidy and organized fashion which is easy to retain and to transfer over time as needed to parents, new schools, or other resources depending on the situation.

As we have more and more access to technology in planning our lessons and creating materials for instruction I look forward to having a better understanding of how to add images to these documents. Our students are visual creatures by nature, and having the ability to make lessons visually interesting is a great way to encourage engagement thereby reducing inappropriate behavior during instruction.

I look forward to playing around with these techniques outside of TPTE 486 and to try out within the classroom.