During our last class it was interesting to see different students' presentations. Throughout the presentations I noticed two things: 1) Teachers do not know enough technology and 2) increasing communication between teachers and students via e-mail and text.

Throughout the presentations one of the students mentioned how research was showing teachers themselves do not know enough techonology. There are many interesting activities out there that support learning for today's students but not enough teachers would know how to set up all the technology involved in carrying out these activities. Not only this, but teachers would also have trouble finding a spot in curriculum to implement technology. This is something that bothers me when I think about my own teaching but it may just be a matter of letting the older, more traditional teachers retire. Soon enough we'll have a brand new generation of tech savvy instructors.

It is rather unacceptable for students to communicate with teachers via telephone. This type of communication is usually seen with students that are college/university level. Furthermore, there are still teachers today that can not upload an attachment to an e-mail to send work home for a sick student! I had a situation recently where one of my students was ill for over a week and I sent work to her mother's work e-mail and the student was able to come to class without falling behind. Had it not been for the parent and myself communicating via e-mail, the student would not have been caught up.

Our students' presentations included many great activities but without teachers learning the proper technology necessary, they are useless.

PSA Video Project

So about this video project - the first time it was mentioned in class - or the first time I saw it on the syllabus, I thought to myself "I'm going to make a video?!" I thought it was an impossible task but I soon saw how easy it was after the class where we got to make the skating video. I thought it was very neat and easy to understand.

For our video project, I worked with Carrie and Chauncy and I had a really good time. We decided to do our PSA on older men interested in chatting with teens and establishing a sexual relationship with them. At first I thought it was kind of crazy but I liked the purpose behind it. One of the most challenging parts was making our video fit into 90 seconds!!! It was harder than I thought! Now that we're done with it, I think I admire whoever was able to do it in less than 90 seconds....kudos to those who did it in 30 seconds!

The filming part was not too hard...We were able to film quickly and it didn't consume too much of our time. The most interesting part to me was all the mixing. I truly enjoyed it! We were able to mix in all the music perfectly. Although some parts of it were choppy, I think we did a very good job, considering it was our first time doing a project like this.

I am proud of how much I've learned in this class and I think I can use videos like these in my classroom. Honestly, I wouldn't mind using it in my personal life as well to make videos of my children. They're great memories!