Blog Ten

The Smart Board

Why is it beneficial to have a smart board in a classroom? The smart board provides flexibility and interaction inside the classroom for the children. It provides pictures, videos, games, graphs etc.. The smart board enhances teaching and learning abilities. These smart boards provide new ways of teaching inside a classroom. Your able to interact and share work with the students visually. Some students are visual learners and this would greatly benefit those specific students. Smart boards are considered "going green" without the need of using regular materials such as a paper and pencil. Technology is being integrated into classrooms all over the world to help students create new ways of learning that individually help them learn. The smart board created communication for students to collaborate and demonstrate learning. To make learning fun and interesting rather then looking at a textbook. I hope in my future classroom I will be able to have this piece of technology to help students learn and interact

Blog 9

Prezi:


After looking over these prezi's I personally liked Math Twitter because twitter is something many people use in every day life. I do not exactly know how to use twitter so this prezi was helpful with explaining a few things that are important about twitter. For example it goes over what a hashtag is, direct message, how to start a message and how to reply to a tweet. It explains how you only have 140 characters per tweet to express your thought. You can interact world wide and stay in touch with colleagues using twitter. It explains how your close friends and family can view the things you are doing in your every day life.

Another prezi I specifically enjoyed was the Superbowl Quiz. I thought it was interesting how they broke the prezi down into different parts of a quiz. I love sports but unfortunately did not get too many of the answers right on this quiz. I would like to teach first or second grade and this is a great way to present a fun way to have a quiz. The students would stay engage and be more involved in what they are being tested on.

The third presentation that stood out to me was the Geography Prezi. I liked this one because it really held my attention. I like how the information about each broken down into sections. It discusses the intervening obstacles of the indigenous communities of Guatemala, the eco-tourism of Costa Rica, the communist society of the United States and Cuba. and market verse command. It also explains about the Amazon basin and how important it is agriculturally. This prezi explains how the different countries are important and how they contribute.