Online week!

I feel very confident and excited in the lesson plan John and I created, it was a collaboration upon the art historical era of Pop Art. The main problem that occurred was narrowing down the subject to specifics aspects, but after reviewing the information in detail, it became easier to rule out the less important information and focus on its main points.
I am very grateful for this course being integrated within my core educational classes. I have learned a great deal of information about integrating technology within the classroom setting that otherwise I would be totally oblivious to. The class overall has been a wonderful, informative experience, I feel that nothing needs to be changed, I enjoyed the class greatly.
What I am taking from this class is information about technology that I originally knew nothing about. Some of that information includes blogs, wikis, educational websites for teachers, creating a lesson plan, using the online database to find articles related to my field, and so much more.
It is a given that teachers must be aware, but more importantly fluent with technology. Technology is progressing each and every single day, and students are growing along side with it. If an instructor is not aware of this, they are not only hurting themselves with their career, but sadly they are hurting their students.

Voice Thread!

I personally think voice thread is a very unique tool for having conversations based around media, including media such as images, videos, presentations, documents, or even a combination of them all accessed in one central location. One of the feature's included with Voice Thread is the ability to draw on images while making a presentation. Another feature is the comment button, and five different means of making comments, telephone, web-cam, microphone, text, or file upload. Lastly with voice thread, can be accessed anywhere in the world, and there is no software required.

As far as using it within a lesson plan, one must keep into account the audience, the age group of the students. Depending on the age group it seem as if it would be more useful and effective for older students, its helps grab their attention and allows them to comment. In younger, it seems as if it would be difficult to keep their attention with all the incorporated media.


I will personally would use this program in my future classroom. Being that I am going into art education, having the ability to draw on pictures and physically point out aspects of design within them it would definitely help me be more effective in my instruction. The other feature of commenting by multiple means, is a great aspect, because anyone no matter the lack of technology they do have the means to access the program and comment.