SCP Questions

1. Which Technology do you think would be most likely to use in your future classroom and why?
  A nice chunk of Google's repetoire was showcased by the class, with all of the programs having at least some useful classroom application.  Picasa, integrated with Google, would provide a globally accessible place to share pictures for projects, class scrapbooks, or one of many other tasks

2. Which technology do you think you would be least likely to use and why?
  ToonDoo and Create Comics seem like very roundabout ways to not get too much done...  I'd consider using them for students to play with, or for students who have difficulty in writing or drawing to make comics (with the rest of the class doing so by hand), but I feel that its being streamlined defeats the educational purpose of asking students to make a comic strip, by undermining some of their creative input.

3. What did you learn about instructional strategies from your peers that you might put into effect in your future classroom?
   Today I saw several ways to post and share pictures online that could be excellent resources for a 'wired' classroom teacher, allowing for shared experiences and pictures not only from the teachers end of things, but from students and their families.  Pictures of field trips, adventures students had outside of school hours, picture based family trees, the possibilities are widely varied.

5.  What is the most fascinating thing you learned from our peers today?
 Hands down, the interactive blackboard.  I'd seen them used before, but never gotten a chance to use one personally.... it's so cool!  Despite some snags, the technology worked more easily than I expected, leaving me excited for the possibility of having one in a future classroom, as well as for possible improvements and innovation with it in coming iterations.