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During this eight week course of technology and education I have learned that I don’t have to fear technology. Before I began the ED 505 I hated doing anything on computers, I always felt that I could not download, save drafts or even links. Now with the help of this course I feel more comfortable around computers.  I have really enjoyed ED 505 because we were taught so much as unit. I learned how to create lesson plans and class room rubrics. I have never had to create rubrics for any other class, because while at UWA I was chemistry major not an education major and my professors didn’t worry about rubrics or lesson plans. Using lesson plans and rubrics I will be able to grade my students on the knowledge and skills that they will acquire when I give out an assignment. My students will be able to follow out specific guidelines I lay in front of them and can see where their strength and weaknesses lay on certain subjects. This will also help me create better course outlines and teaching patterns that will allow students to understand material better.  Another activity that I will use in my classroom is digital picture labs. In digital pictures labs we used flickr, five star flickr, picnic, photofunia, dumpr, and Bighuglabs. These technology activities helped me explore the creative side I never knew I had. I was taught how to download pictures from a digital camera and use those photos to create crazy pictures of classmates, locations and everyday items. I learned that I could rearrange photos into groups that had nothing in common to tell a story on power point. During the digital pictures lab activity I learned about a numerous of electronical devices such as XO laptop, digital flip camera, tape recorder, digital camera and a few others I cannot recall. Each of these electroncial devices can be used in a classroom environment to teach students on sequencing, location, and time awareness. A student for example will be able to take five photos of random objects and download them to flickr or any other link and create a story will their own creative ideas. Or post the findings on Google docs survey and they will even be able to write a story other students can comment on using Google docs writing.  Creating a wiki is an activity I enjoyed doing while in ED 505, a wiki is web site is educational and helps students save assignments that they have done. In my wiki I learned I could save my work for the course and I could have Dr. Fowler review and exam my work on a time and orderly fashion. As a high school teacher I will be able to create a class wiki and each student will be able to post their assignments and change their wiki to their own creative styles. I will be able to monitor their work process and if they are having trouble will a certain subject I will be able to help that student catch up and maintain their grades.  The skills that my students will acquire in the 21st century because of my improved technology computer skills are that they will learn to download and create web sites. Students will be able to create links that function and create awesome pictures of friends and family. They will acquire the skills of typing, organization and writing. These skills can be placed in everyday usage for students; because being organized a student will be able to follow instructions well, keep up with assignments and grades will improve. Typing and writing skills will help a student keep up with grammar and spelling. A student that feels they have a comfortable educational background in computer skills and other aspects of education will succeed in their live goals.