My workplace in Spain

Its been a long time since I started to be a fan of new technologies, after having my first computer like 12 years ago, I like to buy all the new gadget in order to create a profesional studio that I use for diferent purposes. This is a picture of my room from 2006.

Reflection on things learned this semester - EDT300- Education and Technology

Amador Jimenez-Garrido


Write a Reflection on things learned this semester - technology skills and ideas on integrating technology in future teaching.



Personally, I have always been aware of the importance of using new Technologies in classrooms today.
Nowadays there are only a small percentage of teacher that don’t use there feature in class or another learning situation.

There are two basic reasons why technologies should be part of the learning process today; first of all, these new methods make our class work to a quicker pace which allows us to cover more concepts within our time. And secondly, technologies make our work very interactive that is the best way to learn most subjects.

There are another ring of external reason like the importance of being familiar with technologies since childhood because our professional future is going to be determined with our capacity of utilize computer or other electronic devices.

I reckon that my knowledge of the possibilities available today was not good enough at the beginning of the course if I compared with today. Thank to this class I feel like I have good a wide range of methods that I will be incorporating to my lectures. I am very glad to have learnt the web basic programs because they are easy, intuitive, and they don’t need any installation or further setting up.

To enumerate or describe how I am going to use all of them is class is hard because I have not get to that point yet since I am still studding but I am sure that the use of some features or other is going to be related with the age of my students, but Office, Wiki, Digication..are going to be common in my classes.

The students will be benefited of the addition of technologies to class because they won’t be monotonous anymore and they will learn enjoying.
For me the challenge of bringing new feature to class is important because that means being a teacher that considers to be according with the times.

Hello Amador,

I read your blogs and they are nice. I liked that you inserted video clips into them. I would like to try that tortilla de patatas from your country. I think it is wonderful that you have studied at three universities in different countries and can compare their teaching methods.

What's behind the simplicity of Google?

Most people, where I have to include myself, write a couple of words in this searcher and see how 3 mill results appear and we hope the best results to appear in the first page. It is true that we are getting good information but probably not the best in the web.

We can use special syntax in order to restrict our search to only the elements we are actually looking for.

www.google.com/help/operators.html ------------ Contains the Google commands needed to filter our searchs

Google also includes a wide ring of new utilities that makes our work easier without leaving our internet browser. Calculator, Ortography, Dictionary, Maps, Discussion Forums, Notifies (when your fav web is updated).....

It is really worthy to spend some time getting familiar with these features because we are going to get that spent time back and our work on the computer is going to be easier, quicker and more proffesional.


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1306760,00.asp --PCMAG MAGAZINE

Amador

Draw Your Own Picture

Testing New features

Wiki, group work

Wiki is a very useful tool for groups to work over a project without have to get together all.

Sometimes people in the work group have very diferent schedules and they live in diferent places, this makes getting together more complicated. Wiki helps the group in these matters and makes really easy make a colaborated work from house.