Weekly Blog 10 - Final Post

Thursday marked our last class of the quarter. It was sad to see this quarter come to an end but I’m excited for the future. In class, we had two guest lecturers. One talked about a technology that she felt could be beneficial to teachers. It used a Nintendo Wii controller to work the mouse on a computer that was projected onto the white board. I found this to be a cool little piece of technology. The second lecturer was a astrobiologist who talked to us about his field. This was an interesting presentation to me, as I have always been a bit of an astronomy and astrobiology enthusiast. I learned a lot from both lectures. There are classroom applications to both of these lectures. The first one is obvious. The tool discussed it something that could easily be used in a classroom as a cool and innovative way to teach ones students. The second lecture was important because it emphasized the importance of a variety of fields. Astrobiology utilizes geology, astronomy, biology, and other fields. The lecture served as a reminder that in the real world, it often takes a variety of areas of expertise to solve problems. This is most likely my last post on this blog. It was fun blogging throughout the quarter and it really helped me digest some of the issues talked about in class. It’s been fun.