Flash the boy genious!

So basically I haven't been doing to well keeping up on my blog but that does not mean that we are not doing anything worth mentioning in class because we have learned some interesting and useful information that can be used in class as well as outside of class. On Monday we had the chance to build our own google website and I had some fun putting some stuff together there. Websites can be used very easily in the classes that we as educators teach. We can make a class website and post all of the activities that we do in class that way if a student has to miss class they can know exactly what we did and know what to prepare for when they come back to class. It can be used similarly to blackboard in the sense that you can let the students access the web page and do different activities right there on the class web page. Let's face the facts here we live in a time where every student has a cell phone and can manage their way around the internet better than I can, so by applying technical techniques in our teaching methods we can tap into the students interests and really help them to grasp the ideas that we bring up in class. We have also went over very briefly Flash and I must say that it is a bit complicated but you can do some very cool things. I haven't really played with it too much so I don't know what I can do or even begin to do on it so for updates on how Flash will be coming to a History class near you stay tuned!