Blog #4

    I have been enjoying my experience with Twitter. I have been interacting with some of my classmates, and with the FSU education twitter page. It has been beneficial to me because I have been learning more about education. Twitter could be helpful in my future career so I could connect with my colleagues and learn more about teaching. I could also use it for my students to do collaborative homework assignments.
    Podcasts could effect students success in school because they are not always the best resource to use when teaching certain subjects. Also, not all students can really pay attention to a podcast for a long period of time. It is easy to get distracted especially if the person speaking in the podcast is boring or not very entertaining to the person listening. Another thing is that not all students can get access to technology so these students grades could fall behind very quickly if they can't get access to a computer every time there is a podcast up.
    Some of the student software I expect to use the most are the presentation software and educational games. I will be teaching second grade so using a presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint would be very beneficial for my students to help keep them focused and learning. Educational games will also be very important in my class. Since my students are so young, having games throughout the day will help them retain information and again keep them focused. I most likely will not be using academic databases in my class since my students are so young and they are not old enough to use them effectively.

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