Project 15: Interview with Amber Grace- "Incorporating Technology into Classrooms"

For Project 15, Amber Grace, also from Class D, and I interviewed each other through a discussion of technology in classrooms today and tomorrow. We also exchanged ideas on how to incorporate technology outside of the classroom for personal uses. I mentioned the use of Google Earth to find latitude and longitude coordinates in a previously taken Geography course at South. We also talked about the timeline toast and its many uses, in and out of the classroom for a wide variety of age groups. Amber shared with me a few projects her and her daughter were working on such as a Timeline of events in their lives. We both agreed that gaining the knowledge on how to make Timetoast Timelines would definitely come in handy later down the road. We discussed Vocaroo and Amber stated she has been emailing reminders to herself as part of her PLN. She and I really enjoyed Vocaroo because we each have a young child and they are really amused by hearing their own voices on a computer. I asked Amber Grace if and how she would be using Blogger/Blogging in her future Elementary classroom. She said it was a definite possibility and that she may set up an extra credit system in which her students may blog for needed points. Overall it was a great interview and I was glad and excited for our technology literacy expansion we have undergone this semester.