Blog+Reflections

[|The Tech Savvy Educator]

One of the blogs I followed this month was The Tech Savvy Educator. Initially I have to admit I wasn't very excited or interested in doing this piece of the assignment. I failed to see how reading or following a blog could be time effective when I had so many other things to get done. Needless to say "I stand corrected". As I occasionally checked in to see what was posted a few caught my eye. One in particular was "What to do when you have to punt?" The nature of the blog is the technology isn't working (which is something I have experienced a lot of lately). And how to take limited technology and apply what you have using a "win-lose-or draw" game on the whiteboard to review technology related terms. Another one that I particularly remember is the importance of educators understanding how the technology works to some extent to help them with using the technology most effectively. This post was related to the use of google docs and the overload of teachers who tried to contribute to a project. Because of the numbers of educators all trying to collaborate at the same time they themselves were frustrated as well as others because of the limited or slow response time.