Final Thoughts

I really enjoyed this class. I took this same class at Faulkner State Community College, which did not transfer to South.... imagine that haha, but this class was one hundred times better than the one I took at Faulkner. I love that this class is not "burp-back" education. In the class at Faulkner all we did was follow a guided book that told us how to make spreadsheets and useless material like that. This class has been very fun and very educational. I love the podcast and learning about Audactiy. Audacity is a really cool application, I never knew something like it existed. I also liked the idea of blogging, I think it could be a reat educational tool in every school. Overall, the class is great.

Two podcast

"Can wikipedia be useful to students and educators?"
I really like Wikipedia, I think there are tons of useful information on it. It is really easy to use. The only thing about Wikipedia is you should check your resources of the material you find. Anybody can go on Wikipedia and enter information, it does not mean it is true information. I really like the podcast idea. I think podcast gives students another way of learning instead of reading and writing all the time, or taking notes. I think these podcasts are very useful.

"Using Facebook as an educational tool."
Facebook has a few ways of being useful for education. One thing Facebook has is notecards. I think digital notecards are very neat and can really be useful to students. If a student misses a class they can get on Facebook and see what they missed. It allows you to connect to almost anyone you want, even people from other countries. As I said before, I really enjoy these podcasts and think they can be very useful.

txting away ur education

I agree with the article to a certain extent. I do think cellphones and other technology can be very distracting. I sometimes can be talking to a friend and he will get a text, pull his phone out, reply to the text and will have heard nothing I just told him. I think texting is distracting and it has become WAY too popular. I work at the cellphone company T-Mobile, so I have seen some of the cellphone bills of teenagers who use too many text in one month. You would not believe some of the bills. As far as texting making kids shy away from thinking, or look for quick answers, I do not believe that. Texting is distracting and students can not possible listen to the teacher and text at the same time, but I do not see texting changing the way people think.