Reflection #4 and video #4

What?

This week in class we learned about google presentations. We were put into groups to do classroom rules; the group that I was in was having some technical diffuculties so only one of us could be in the presentaion at one time. It was a very good thing to learn about because it's almost like Powerpoint only you can get into anywhere and on any computer without having to have in on a c.d. or some other kind of device.

So What?

If I were to use this, parents would be able to access classroom rules from their homes. I could put anything onto the presentation that we would be doing in class and the parents would be able to get onto the site and see what we were going to do that day or what I expect from my students. You could put together just about anything with the presentation and parents would be able to see them without calling you and bugging you all of the time. Also if you were to do a google presentaion, you wouldn't have to worry about losing it if your computer died. You would only have to worry about the whole google server thing go down. Whereas with a PowerPoint presentation, you would more than likely lose it when your computer dies... unless of coarse you have it on some other device which most of the time we don't think that far ahead.

Now What?

I would really have to get used to using this instead of just using PowerPoint. I know that they are similar but PowerPoint has more things that you could do with the presentations then the google presentations do. Although with Google Presentaions you would be able to have parents access it whenever they want to. I guess I would just need to learn how to get used to using google presentations over powerpoint for some things. I could also use Powerpoint in my classes and then make the same thing for google presentations... I know that that would be a lot of extra work but it was just an idea.

Video:

This video wasn't really what I wanted to watch. I guess it was informative about giving the definitions of what certain things are like tagging, podcasts, RSS, social networking, ect... I'm not sure if I would show this to my students to give them an understanding of what things are because it was a boring movie... But it would be good background for teachers...