What new thinking I have after today's class!

During today's class I learned a lot of valuable techniques that I can use in my future as an educator. One of these things was how to use a wiki and what a wiki actually is. A wiki is an Internet site that anyone can add information to. The cool way I learned to use it for my future would be to create a wiki on what I do on a daily basis with my students. Sometimes I can sit through a whole class, and totally forget some of the things we did during that period. So I will understand when a student doesn't quite remember what I did throughout the day with them. With a what we did in class wiki, not only can the students remember, but the parents can look at it and see what their child does at school that day. It will really help with organization and hopefully impress the parents! Another thing that I came out of class with better understanding today would be what social bookmarking is. This is a cool way to keep all of your favorite websites organized and in one convenient spot to locate them. The website we used was called delicious. It excited me to learn about this because it is a way, like Professor Boyer said, to keep materials for the future organized and to save a lot of time. For example when looking to write a lesson plan, I will have websites all organized and in front of me that will make the process go a lot smoother! I really love this class because it has already taught me so many techniques to use with technology that i had no clue of before I came into this class.