Chapter 8

Chapter 8 dealt with Security Issues, Ethics ad Emerging Technologies in Education. I thought this chapter was very interesting. The section about Security Issues seemed to be the most relevant. Now a days the increase in viruses is outrageous. This section was helpful in the fact that it went into detail about the signs of virus infections (p.471) as well as two of the most common viruses; worms and Trojan Horse. I have heard of people getting the Trojan Horse virus on their computers and they said its the worst thing that has ever hit their computer and it takes a while to catch it. This section also talks about logic bombs and time bombs; such as the Michelangelo virus. I still don't understand why people create these viruses, it will never make sense. Creating these viruses seem unethical, causing harm to others intentionally.
Some new skills that I acquired since the last class, was creating a web page. I've never created one before and I have always wanted to. Being able to create one will help later on when I become a teacher and need to have a website. In todays society if you don't have a website, webpage, or know how to create them or use them, your in big trouble. Todays society seems to be built around the use of the web, and learning new things from it. Creating a webpage you can be as creative as you want with it, being able to draw as much attention to it as you please. You are able to use webpages for your own use or for many different uses which helps in many ways.
I was glad that Spring Break was here, but it went by entirely to fast. Spring Break is a tease, but the good news is we only have a little over a month until Summer. Although now im not in any rush for summer since we are required to take summer classes. So now I am just jumping right back into classes. Spring Break was definitley needed and it was great to be able to go home for a few days. I hope everyone else had a great Spring Break and now we must get back into that "learning mode".

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 was about technology and curriculum integration. One of the more interesting things that I found was that students retain knowledge longer when they are actively involved in using digital media to meet their benchmarks. Technology helps make learning more active and gets the students more involved. With all this great technology, there are barriers just like everything else. The most common barrier is the lack of teacher training with the equipment. Most of the information that was covered in this chapter, we covered in my intro to education class (EDF1005). So it was basically a review.

This past week we learned how to do PowerPoint. I like PowerPoint a lot. You are able to do so much with it. I had no idea that you could make it seem as though you were on the internet. That’s awesome. I’m quite excited to use it!

I still can’t get over all that things that we learn in this class that help with everyday things, not just teaching. PowerPoint, Word, Blogger these tools are things that we can use years from now. I still find this class informative and interesting. I wish it wasn’t at 8am but it’s a good class and I’d recommend everyone should take it.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 deals with Digital Media and all the Software Applications that you can use to help teach. I didn’t realize all the applications that are out there for teachers to use to enhance their teaching methods. With the new technology and the advancements of the old ones students now have more ways to learn. With digital media software students have the ability to learn in ways that they’ve never been able to before; whether they are visual, audio or kinetics. There are different pieces that go into creating this digital media that makes it better. You can add text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. These digital media technology can be used as an application. You can use it to train, as electronic books, how-to guides, magazines, newspapers, journals. These applications can help not only with teaching but with every day things.

Some new skills that I learned was how to use wiki. Wiki is different and I'm not sure how I feel about it still. Ive never used and application like it before. I don’t think I'm a big fan of it. I do think its an interesting process but its not the effective.

I found it effective that the class lesson was online. Ive never had a class online and I thought it was cool how I learned through Videos off of Youtube.com. I don’t know though if I would learn better that way, if I had a strictly online class though. I think that would cause me to procrastinate more and I think I would get distracted more as well.