Explored Technology

I learned how to use a temperature probe. This tool seems very useful because the data can be collected extremely quickly. I also learned how to use a temperature probe. I found it very interesting that a probe can plug directly into a person's computer and information is sent directly to the right program. Because of the quickness of the results students can spend more time analyzing the results.

TPAK

I'm excited to learn how to be a TPAK teacher. I found it very interesting to learn about different types of teachers within the TPAK definitions. First, Technological savvy teachers a teacher can know a lot about technology and know how to use it, but not know a thing about the content matter they are teaching or not know at all how to go about teaching it to students. Second, a Pedigogical teachers can know the best procedures to use when teaching specific students, but not know a thing about technology or about the content matter they are teaching. Third, a Content knowledgeable teacher can know everything there is to know about their subject and not have a clue how to teach it or how to include technology.
After understanding the three different types of teaching skills it was obvious that the best teacher would be one that contains all three components. A teacher definitely needs to know the content that they are teaching and know how to teach it, and at the same time know how to incorporate technolody into their classroom. By having a teacher that is well rounded in these three components the students will learn much more than they ever would have by the power of synergy.

Week Three

This week I learned the rules of copyrights. I had no idea there were specific amounts of media: video, text, music, illustrations, etc that could be used without any permission whatsoever. I also didn't know that even though a teacher purchases a movie at the store a teacher cannot show that video in her classroom as reward. The teacher must purchase copyrights to the video on top of just buying the video. I also didn't know that if I purchase a song from Itunes, even though I paid for it I still cannot use the entire song for educational purposes I can only use 20 seconds. The only thing that I would really like to know and didn't learn from the tutorial and video is HOW to site the direct website that a picture or thing is on. For example, I've just found an image from google, how do I find the exact link to the picture instead of just to the google search?