Tech in the Classroom

Podcasting & Aggregators
I think that podcasting is something great that everyone should take part in. I feel that it adds so much to the way that we do things. I know for a fact that people have lessons that you can take and play for the students. Podcasting is blowing up and if I has many practical adaptations for a social studies setting. As far as the students go they love new things and will take to it, you could also play a lesson when a sub comes in. This is stuff that is here to stay. The fact that you can get so much information in one deal is great. It is new technology and like any new technology it can be overwhelming.

Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet, and Beyond

This is an article that talks about all of the technological developments that we have gone threw. It starts with the development of connecting America and the role that ISP played in this role. We will get the birth of the World Wide Web and things, as we know it will be forever changed. They tell us about plugs and emails and how widely used they are. Portals are thing like Google and yahoo and we have all heard of these. They hit upon the huge impact that peer-to-peer sharing has had on us. The webs is change how we work we get our, news from the web, our movies, everything.

It is great to see how all of this stuff came to be it gives us a better understanding of the technology that we used. When I tell a student to go to Google and find something I know why and how it came to be. As far as the internet is concerned it is to big to be going anywhere anytime soon but up. There is going to be more and more information that is going to be on the net. Which will allow us as teachers to give students more option to explore. That is what history is exploring the past