Hypermedia and software

In Chapters 5 and 6 of Roblyer and Doering's book Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, they focus on using hypermedia and software to enhance learning. Some benefits from using these programs are improved productivity, improved appearance of student work, better accuracy, and support for interacting and sharing among students. there are many different types of software that can enhance learning in the classroom, but they stressed only choosing materials that would benefit your own students.

Some software that is available can help students to easily collect data and can help them add creativity to their work. Some software is highly beneficial to the teacher. one program that I would like to try is a test and worksheet generator. with a program like this , a teacher can scatter test questions so that each test looks different. My first grade students frequently look at each others papers. Most times I don't mind, since they are so young, I feel like they learn from each other.Sometimes though, I really need to see what they know as individuals. This would be an easy way for me to do this.

Teaching my students to publish their own writing and visual images would be so motivating. I am excited to try this next year throughout my writing class. I feel like my students will not only enjoy our writing class more, but will also begin to choose to work on writing during their free time. I only wish we had more computers in our classroom.

The students that will enter my room in the fall will most likely have experience using the computer, keyboard and mouse. This year I would like to introduce the use of video and audio, if our school has the equipment to do that. The use of these devices could give students the means to make their work more personal which in turn will stimulate a lot of creativity as well as motivate all students. Not only will they enjoy the production part, they will also enjoy seeing what their classmates have created.