See You When I See You...

Well, it's all over. Class is out! For the teachers I will restate it like this, class is out???? :(
I'm just having fun, summer was not all that bad besides the extreme amount of stress. I met cool new people who are fun and got great instruction from the instructors.
            The last class on Friday seemed appropriate and worthwhile to me. We got to meet real teachers and get their opinions on technology. From what I heard I remember thinking that the different teachers all had different access and requirements with technology, and therefore I suggest flexibility! One must be flexible with technology to survive in different environments. If you act like a stubborn old person and you get put in a high tech school you are going to have some troubles. On the other hand if you are a high tech individual and you are at a low income school that doesn't have good access to technology you are going to have to find a way to continue without the technology.
            I liked that we didn't really have to do anything that day. We were very stressed out from the exams on Thursday and we still had big projects due on Sunday and Monday. So it was nice to just sit, relax, and listen.
            After listening to these four we went into the biggest available room in the social work building...which wasn't big enough (I got a seat though, so I'm not complaining). It was very disheartening to hear how so many people have down talked the instructors. I personally have thought that this class was always fun to listen to, and enjoyed the interesting topics that came up from it... BE MORE POSITIVE PEOPLE!!! I did mention that the librarian lesson went on a bit too long a couple weeks ago, but I meant nothing bad by that and in retrospect I should have tried to find more relations from it to teaching. I have learned from this class that I need to be more flexible. If certain technology will benefit myself or my students and it is available then I should use it despite my own fear of technology.
            I think I closed out this summer with a much better attitude towards technology, and can't wait until we get back to class again (In a sense, because in the other sense I hope this vacation lasts for forever.) So, I'll see you guys when I see you.
           

EduBloggers

            So the edublogger I looked at was Mr. Benson, an eight grade teacher at Marietai Beach school. His blog seemed sort of opinionated, but had ideas that I agreed with mostly. The ideas were logical and interesting as were the graphics that he used. http://mbschool6.blogspot.co.nz/ that is the edublog link. I decided to look outside the box of recommended edubloggers provided by the instructors to see what more mediocre edubloggers looked like, as I do not see myself being one who would get his blog referenced to have students look at.
            I also looked at http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org/ this blog seemed to be focused on connecting with the students. I mean, what student would not be interested in "Tree Houses Harry Potter Would Love"? Though certainly less educational it is a good way to interact with your students and let them know that you too are human.
            These edublogs were interesting. They show students that you are human, and you can really have fun with them. Teachers may use these to post ideas about class and expand students knowledge in a unique interesting way. I think that these blogs are just another example of being creative with technology and trying to reach your students.