Weekly Blog 5

I must admit that today’s class was slightly overwhelming. So many new programs and websites were learned and not much time to fully realize the full potential of each. However, it is pretty clear that the most significant thing I learned about today was the blog Free Technology For Teachers (found here: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/). What an amazing site. The blog provides countless links to technology related sites, all of which have some relation to teaching. Being someone whose concentration is social studies/history teaching, I was able to search for posts using the keyword: History. What I found was a multitude of different posts, all of which highlighted some site which relates to both history and technology. For example, I found one site which has thousands of hours of video footage from different documentaries and news stories, and there were countless other links to things just like this. This blog will be a great resource later in my life when I begin teaching. It will be fun to browse the site in search of things that I can use in the classroom. The only questions I have left over from class are questions surrounding the classroom applications of some of the things found on Free Technology For Teachers. Some are obvious. Most of what I found involved interactive maps, historical videos, animations, etc. All these would be great tools to use in a classroom as I feel that they would help present material in a more fun manner for students. However, I do feel that it would be nice to maybe hear what some of my peers discovered on the site and some of the potential classroom applications of their findings.