First Post!

My first post on any blog. Pretty excited. I probably would have never created a blog if it had not been an assignment for this IT class that I am taking. A class I have been critical of to peers during the first few weeks of this semester. Lately however the class has forced me to create two google websites, located here and here, and now this blog. So my view of the class has changed, for the better of course.

Anyways, these first couple of posts are supposed to deal with my opinion on using technology in the classroom. Let me first show you what is needed for effective mathematics education, and we can go from there.
If you can squint your eyes and read the little orange boxes you can see in my philosophy "effective communication" lands under each of my three individuals areas. What is so great about technology is that it enables all to communicate in multiple ways. We have email, instant messaging, blogs, webpages, twitter, facebook, all as different ways to enable communication. Also, as a math educator I am able to access multiple online mathematics resources to expand my knowledge of subjects and have my students expand their knowledge. There are video postings on youtube that help explain certain subjects. Heck you can even post your own videos of lessons. Here's one of myself!



There are so many ways to help people communicate, expand general knowledge, and really just help both students and teachers during the entire process of math education using technology.

So I guess my opinion in short is, technology is a good thing to use inside and outside the classroom.... especially for math teachers.

Go blogging. Hope to be using this medium much more in the future.