Thursday, October 25, 2012

Personal Issues

I am having a slight issue in one of my classes this semester. The class objective is to teach pre-service teachers how to use technology in the classroom. Now, the issue arises when the professor has no clue how to use a product of technology, yet is teaching us how to use it, and is requiring us to do something with it for a grade in the classroom. This brings me back to the point about knowing and practicing the tools before stepping into the classroom. Some things that this professor has done while "teaching" us the tool is click everything under the sun. The professor had no idea where to find certain tabs in order to show us how to use special things within the source. We were working with audacity and PowerPoint to develop them together into windows movie maker. The professor was all over the place, and I am bad with technology as it is, so I was lost and confused the entire time. We were bouncing around between the three tools and the professor wasn't sure what to do...it created a bunch of chaos in the class and I learned nothing from the experience. I was just furious and ready to smack someone. Well, the point of this rant is: KNOW YOUR STUFF! If you have used it before make sure it hasn't changed, and in general...know how to navigate the source. Try using it before the actual class starts just in case something happens. But definitely know your stuff. I don't think I can say this enough.

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