EDUC 7108 Module 6 Blog

As a leader in educational technology I can stress the ideas of new and improved technologies to others by explaining how these technologies can be beneficial to them. People need to know how valuable these things are to them. Thornburg states, “Valuable means understanding a culture well enough to help people incorporate new ideas into that culture” (Laureate Education, 2009). Using technology in the classroom, keeps the students interested and motivated to learn. I can also stress how important it can be to all different levels of learning because technology can cater to different learning styles and basically all aspects of life. Everyone needs to understand and be able to become productive members of society this includes having those 21sy century skills. We are a computer generated society and there is no way of avoiding that. The idea is to keep abreast to changing times, Inventors of today know this, that’s why there are various things being created every day.

Laureate Education . (2009) Diversity and Globalism. Retrieved August 22, 2010 at http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4199715&Survey=1&47=5847480&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1

EDUC 7108-Module 1 Blog

I chose to discuss Google Docs. Google Docs came on to the scene in 2006. It is an online collaborative tool for documents. It allows people to edit documents together online. Documents may include Word, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and forms. Users have to have a Google Account to use this service. Each user can have 1 GB of space (Google, 2010). Some other benefits include the advantage of sharing work and being able to access your work from anywhere. This is a good benefit to have in education and especially distance learning. Google Docs is also integrated with Blogger which is another service provided by Google.

Even though the advantages are numerous, there are a few issues with Google Docs, one being that you have to have Internet access to work with the documents. Google Docs also has less features than Microsoft Office and space is limited on the server because of the vast number of Google Accounts. The technology probably would be better if it incorporated more features.

These are links to information on Google docs:
http://www.docs.google.com/
http://edutech.msu.edu/online/GoogleDocs/GoogleDocs.html

References

Google Docs. (2010). Retrieved June 7th from http://www.docs.google.com/