Amber’s Technology in Education Adventure

Technology integration in current classrooms has significantly increased over the past few years, including interactive whiteboards. Technology is constantly evolving in our daily lives, as well as, in our classrooms. This is apparent in the interactive whiteboards. There are many different models and upgrades of the interactive whiteboards in hopes to make them more accessible, easier for students and teachers to use, and programs/software that help engage students, such as the SMART notebook software. Permission by  From elementary school to high school I experienced the transition from overhead projectors, Promethean boards , and eventually SMART boards. From kindergarten until fourth or fifth grade, I can vividly remember my teachers using the overhead projectors to teach. They often had the worksheet or lesson that we were doing on a projector sheet that allowed them to project the picture of worksheet or lesson we were discussing, as well as, to write annotations and ...

As an education major, I am enrolled in Technology for the 21st Century Classroom course. In this course, we will learn how to incorporate technology into our classrooms as a 21st-century educator. One of the assignments that we have begun to work on is our education instructional video. Throughout the remainder of our class, we will learn how to plan for, construct, and create an instructional video for our students. Permission By Like most things in life, there are steps to this process that we must take into consideration. The process of the development of a video consists of four stages. The four stages in the process are pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. Pre-production is where the concept and planning of the video occurs. In the pre-production stage, this is when we will map out our video, figure out where the video will be recorded, what we will say in the video, as well as, the equipment, materials, and software that we will need. The next s...