Blog about a Blogger

Wesley Fryer is a educational blogger that blogs about all of the technology that he and his students bring to the classroom. He talks about the new abilites the new technologies that are coming up will effect the stuff that occurs in his classroom. His main point is that technology can be used in the classroom in an efficient manner such that it brings the student a better understanding of the subject. He also talks about what ways you can use a old technology in a classroom so that it is not the same and old way. In one of his blog postings he actually talks about a youtube video his daughter had created in class. This is a very good use of a technology in the world today it makes the classroom meet the Web.

Type 1 and Type 2

The difference Type 1 and Type 2 technolgies is how you use the technologies. If a teacher teaches a lesson plan on a iMovie but just uses it in a boring way, compared to using all the different features of iMovie, than they are using Type 1 technology. Using it in an advanced way, cutting adding, splicing, extracting the music would be considered Type 2. All technology has the option to be Type 2 as long as it is used in a reasonable manor. Type 2 technologies would be considered iMovie, Garageband, and Comic Life. Type 1 technologies would be considered word processor for essays, iTunes for playing music, and iMovie if used in a way that does not require other things in the iMovies other than the orginal video feed.