Elluminate Live is Awesome

Sorry it took so long for me to put my blog up I just lost track of time checking my ess readers. That presentation on Wednesday by Alec was amazing.

Elluminate Live is an awesome tool that could be used in so many benificial ways. I was in Distance Education my first year of University and the technology has improved so much since than. Being able to show youtube videos during the presentation was really impressive espcially the one with the bubbles, that was awesome!

This type of technology would be awesome in northern communities where there resources could be limited, they could offer more classess through this approach and students would benifit from this greatly. It is a great way for different communities and schools to link up with one another and share their ideas.
This type of technology is so useful in the classroom and I could see myself using this to connect with classrooms across the globe sharing ideas with one another.

John Evans Epic Words

John had some awesome points, and some even awesomemer jokes (if that makes sense). After his discussion I realized how many tools are at the teachers hands. The website literacy with ict was a beauty and provided myself with a lot of links.

Classroom 2.0 seemed like a great site to join up with when we become professional teachers. It provides a great support community for begginer teachers and also experienced teachers to meet up and share ideas on technology and everything else.

He also warns us about becoming overwhelmed with the technology and trying to choose websites. An excellent piece of information he delivered to us was choose one website and play around with it before trying to move onto another one. Make sure your intersted with the website first of course. The Rss site he showed us that links us to educators around the world was a great find, I can bounce ideas off of other educators and get some new ideas and tips.

Also the was a good piece of information ctrl + to make the screen larger, thats always helpful!

Interests

My name is Riley Skinner and this is my second year in the Brandon Education program. I am really enjoying myself here in Brandon, since I come from a smaller town (Portage la Prairie) attractions like the bowling alley really apeal to me.
My major is History and my minor is Native Studies. I would really like to teach in Winnipeg or the surrounding area because I like big cities and I would be closer to my family.
Thats all I have for today and I look forward to blogging you later.