This blog is being used for an Education class I am taking this semester. After that we'll see how this goes.

About Me

I am a 21 year old Senior at Florida State University. I am part of the Florida State Flying High Circus and have been since my freshman year. Along with participating in the circus I am a T.A. for Biology 2.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Integration of Technology in the Classroom

While exploring the integration corner of our textbook I found some very interesting websites that would be very helpful to teaching in this new age. I am leaning toward teaching in science so under the science corner of the website, I found numerous sites that allow me to give to my students to take quizzes, convert units for chemistry, have an online dictionary for organic chemistry terms, which I would have liked to know of when I took it. There is also websites that show you how to name molecules and how to describe different birds that are seen in North America. Along with just science websites there are a multitude of other websites for different areas of teaching, including elementary education, post secondary education, also areas for administration and research.
Since the last posting I have learned of a new program called Jump which allows me in input data and statistically analyze it. I used this program to analyze some data I collected over the summer for my internship. I needed a way to statistically analyze it, other than using Microsoft Excel. This program allowed me to do this and after a few minutes of exploring I was able to understand it well enough to use it for my project.
While looking around the assistive technology page I found a link to WixCom Technologies Ltd. While exploring I saw a product called Readingpen which helps people with dyslexia read. As a person that knows someone with dyslexia this interested me very much. I know how difficult it is for him to read sometimes and it hurts me to see him struggle. Now reading about this product, I see some hope that it will be very helpful to him and take off an enormous weight that he feels when he tries to read.

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