Jasmine Technlogy Journey

   Virtual Reality is an interactive experience through simulated environments. It's mostly for visuals and auditory, but in some cases can have other sensory features. Using virtual reality is another way to make your classroom engaging for the students. Virtual reality will be used to go on field trips, but stay in the classroom students will get the experience of traveling around the world. These learners will have the chance to go to a place they never thought of going in their lifetime. These experiences can be turned into lessons that teachers can use. For example, teachers can show significant monuments in Rome in a history class when they are doing their Roman Empire unit. I think it will be great to add this technology tool to the classroom but it will get the learners to want to learn instead of making the learning process difficult. I can think of so many ways I could use this tool to improve a lesson plan. I remember when I was a tutor for 7th and 8th-grade class ...

       This week I learned something new which was adding a caption to a video. I always wondered how captions were added to a video. When I was doing the activity it was a challenge transcribing the video. I had to go back more than once to fix the errors I made or hear the video again to make sure I didn't leave anything out. I understand why the captions are there for an option, so it is a good thing to include it when making videos.       Moving on to the benefits of using youtube in the classroom: Flipped Instructions: Students can learn the content before coming to class. This way the teachers will have more time to apply the concept and have hands-on experience.  Supplemental Information: You can provide the students with extra resources that you can't cover in the classroom. Sometimes the students will have an easier time comprehending the information from these videos.  Self Directed Learning: Let students explore youtube on t...

Social Network Technology is used for communicating through the internet. For instance, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogger, and Instagram are all social networking sites. Users use these sites to tell a story, express their feelings, to share pictures and videos, but these sites can be used in a different way than the initial way. These tools can be used to research, create, and learn. The fact that technology changes frequently becoming better, teachers should keep up with it because the students use these tools making them digital natives in this world. If teachers use these sites that students are used to will engage them and allow them to collaborate about what they learn instead of just using it to flirt with others. So Let's talk about what you can do with these sites in the classroom: Twitter: This site is considered to be a micro-blog and can be used as an exit ticket. You can have the students tweet about what they learn about in the class lecture and discussion. I...