TPACK according to Me!

What I understood about TPACK is that it is incorporating A knowledge of how to use content, and technological knowledge to teach. You would know how to teach in all of this and bring all this together to come up with a good interactive lesson plan that continues to help the children learn and expand their knowledge as well as your own. It really was kind of hard to understand at first but I think I got it now...hopefully this is really what it is. It is necessary for teachers to have this knowledge so that they can be the most effective teacher possible and help the students broaden their horizons with what they can use and learn in the whole learning process.

The science/math technologies that I explored were the google earth app, I hadn't used this really before, it really was neat to see my house and its surroundings, and I was absolutely blown away with stellarium! I could go to where my brother was on his mission and look at what the sky looks like down there in Chile. Really neat that you can even control the speed of the visual image. Technology nowadays is AMAZING!

A peek in my head...

This RSS concept was completely new for me. I've never leaned or heard of this before so this was neat to see that I can receive updates instead of checking different sites EVERY time I get on the internet. I learned that I really can easily keep up with new ideas in education, the news, weather, and other really informational items so that I can keep learning and staying on top of the latest knowledge out there. It was also neat to see those sites such as Goodreads and delicious where I can keep information easily stored. I feel like it won't be so much of a hassle finding and looking up new things with these sites.

Theresa and Technology

The extent of my technology background on a daily basis is email, facebook, and other such online things. My dad is very technologically savvy and normally is the one I go to if I have problems. I can normally figure my way around different computer issues, and back in elementary school I used to clean and work on computers with my classes, but that was quite a while ago.