Blog Post #7

Powerpoint is a great tool that can help students learn. If I were teaching students about the different shapes, the powerpoint will reinforce what I will be saying so, it will help them understand the material. By understanding the material, the students will then be able to remember what has been taught to them. If they can understand and remember what is being, in this case shapes, then they can apply it by doing their homework on shapes. By seeing the different shapes in the powerpoint the students will be able to analyze them and organize them into groups. Once they fully grasp the lesson on shapes they will then be able to apply it to other parts of their studies like math, and with that they can do basic geometry.

In chapter 4, it talks about using adaptive technologies for children with exceptionalities. One that I found interesting was talking word processors. This technology is used for students who have poor reading skills. As stated in chapter 4 this specific technology is able to read aloud whatever the student wrote. It can be read as word by word, sentence by sentence, and entire paragraphs and documents. A challenge, that can occur in the classroom, in using adaptive technology is training. Both the student and the teacher need to be able to use this technology efficiently so that it can help the student.

I thought that the web page design assignment was a very interesting assignment. I have never made a website before and thought it was kind of hard. Since there are many different websites online to help with making websites it has become a little easier. I like the fact that we were able to design the website however we wanted. It will be interesting to see how other student designed theirs. I could use this in my future career by creating a website for my class. This way parents can see what is going on in the classroom and students can go on it if they have any questions.