The End...

I'll admit that I am not a big fan of technology and subsequently was not looking forward to this assignment.  However, by its conclusion I realized that SOME of the activities were not only quite useful but actually fun! I stress the word some because I believe some of the activities would only be beneficial to people who are big internet users. For example RSS feeds would not be useful for someone like me who only accesses 1, MAYBE 2 sites a day.  I don't need to have a separate add-on on my computer that lets me know when these sites have been updated because it would take the same amount of time to just check these few sites.  However, it is good that we learned about RSS because not everyone uses the internet in the same way that I do and for them maybe learning about RSS was a godsend.

My favorite activities were all the ones that dealt with photo manipulation.  I loved Flickr
the image generators, and most recently animoto! I could see myself going back to all these sites to create more cool custom images!

No matter how hard I fight it, the world is becoming more and more technology savvy so in order to keep up I need to as well.  Therefore, the program has made want to become more comfortable using technology and make an effort to use it more in my day to day life.

What surprised me about the program is the fact that almost every activity we did could be applied to the classroom.  Even though at first I thought for sure using something like Vine had no academic benefit I was proven wrong eventually.

I think the program was a bit lengthy and repeated itself somewhat in its activities.  For example even though I really enjoyed playing around with flickr and the other various sites, I don't think it was necessary to introduce us to quite so many when they all did basically the same thing.  But with that being said I still believe that the program as a whole was genius and will only help make us more innovative teachers!!!