About Ms. Brown

Hi, My name is Ms. Barbara Brown. I am a senior at the University of Tennessee Knoxville majoring in Elementary Deaf Education. One day I hope to teach children who are deaf better communicate with both the deaf and hearing community. I believe that learning should be fun, meaningful, and progressive!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Looking back at my technology journey

This semester has been so helpful for me as I have never been the most tech savvy person.  I learned how easy it is to make a website even though it does take a lot of time and effort to make a good looking, orderly site.  As far as Web 2.0 tools go, I believe the only one I had ever even heard of before this semester was Pixlr and I had never use it.  I would say that learning about these tools was a great success in my book for the semester.  These tools are so fun to use, and should be very beneficial for my journey through teaching students who are deaf or hard of hearing.  Most of them were really easy to navigate through.  I actually had never written a blog before this semester either so I learned how simple it was to jot down my opinion and things that I have learned.  I enjoyed doing the digital scavenger hunt, making a digital story, and creating resources through a wiki to use in my career.  I however do not care much for the InterActive Whiteboard assignment.  Although there are some really good ways to help students interact, it seemed too difficult for what it is worth.  I may think differently a few years down the road when I have had some more experience with the tool!  I really enjoyed learning all about technology this semester.  Some of the most common sense things made me think in different ways throughout the time of this class.