About the delicious site

I like the idea of the delicious site. I think it could be useful for someone who had issues remembering the names of websites, and I know I have been put in many situations where I wanted to show someone a website I'd been on, but I couldn't quite remember what the website is. However, I don't see myself using it because I think it sort of makes you lazy... America is already lazy enough, and having a website like this makes it unnessary for you to use your brain and think. So unless you have a short term memory or something like that, I don't think you should use it.

My Thoughts About Blogging...

I think whether or not blogging is useful would be dependent upon what you would have your students blogging about. In my case, I think it would be a good idea to blog about what's been going on in your life, for the most part. Occasionally I might throw in something specific that I wanted them to blog about. I say this because when I was in high school my teacher made us keep a journal. She wouldn't read it if we put a note asking her not to, but everyone always participated. We always had things going on that we needed to write down on paper, and it was helpful. I could see myself using that for my students.

Spreadsheet

After the two assignments that we had today, I learned that I actually liked spreadsheet. It's very simple and there are so many things that you could do with it. I love the fact that it makes grids and graphs for you. That made things so much less time consuming. (I like that phrase I guess) I also like the fact that there are so many things you can do with it.

As a teacher I feel this could be very beneficial. One of the assignments we did this week was proof of that. Spreadsheet is a perfect program for gradebooks. It was easy because the spreadsheet could do math for you. You didn't have to worry about doing any type of math or anything of that sort because it was programmed into the spreadsheet. I LOVE that. The program is so intelligent that you didn't have to do as much work. How nice.

About the Video

I am ABSOLUTELY JEALOUS!!! I seriously wish we had that program when I was still in grade school. It excites me to know that I will have that as a resource for when I become a teacher. What I liked was the different ways that you were able to make different diagrams and how they could change into outlines, or notes, and things like that. It seriously fascinated me. I believe this could be very beneficial for both students and teachers because it would be more structural than what we are used to. Also, most students hate having to make outlines, and the fact that this program does that for you would get the student more willing to do the assignment. It also seems that it would be easier for the teacher as a teachcing tool. It was very easy to understand, and it didn't seem intimidating.

This program would be beneficial on more than one level. Being an aspiring English teacher I think about the different novels that are going to have to be read, and the times when I would ask my students to make a diagram of the novel based on the setting, characters, and timeline. I also could think of history and science classes that would be able to use it with a project or anything of that sort. Truth be told, there is only so much time in a school day, and a lot of times teachers have to spend a lot of time breaking down how to use programs. Well this program was so beneficial because it wasn't complicated and it was sort of self explanatory. The fact that it made the notes and outlines as you go made it less time consuming as well, and therefore, you have more time to spend on more things. I just believe this was a beautiful piece of technology, and it excites me.