Reaction to Easily Organize Your Dropbox Files With This Awesome Ipad App

Boxie is an app for an iPad and also works on iPhones which has now become free.  It is essentially a dropbox app.  As a business education teacher students always want to bring their digital files home to work on them.  My old answer to students would be to either save it on a flash drive, if they have one or email it to yourself.  Also our school district limits the size of files students can save in their folder.  Since many students have a smart device Boxie could be a solution to aide many students in file storage.  Also, by saving items to the cloud, students can access files from any location with an Internet connection.  Overall, I think Boxie sounds interesting and I would like to try using this app in my class to determine if it is a good storage option for students.

Reference:

Kharbach, M. (2013, December 6th). Easily Organize Your Dropbox Files With This Awesome Ipad App. www. educatorstechnology.com.  Retrieved December 7th, 2013 from: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/easily-organize-your-dropbox-files-with.html

Collaborative Editing Reading Response

Collaborative editing is when a group of people or students can all edit and view a document at the same time.  Teachers may also use collaboration software for demonstration purposes.  For instance, teachers can share a reading with students and allow for read only access.  Collaborative editing is a much more efficient method for revising files because all the group members can edit a document in real time.  This can be a big time saver rather than printing out a copy of a rough draft or having each group member work a different topic individually and putting it together at the end.  It also saves paper too since no printouts are necessary as long as each group member has a technology device and access to the account.

Collaboration software is a great technology for teachers to be able to use for group activities.  It allows for all students to be able to contribute to a digital document at the same time.  Collaborative editing is going to continue to grow in popularity for educators as teachers discover the power and effectiveness it can have for students.

Reference:

(2005, December).  7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing.  www.educause.edu/eli. Retrieved December 7th, 2013 from:  https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7009.pdf.

Reaction to Chapter 8 - Collins and Halverson

Chapter 8 examines how the education world can deal with changes of incorporating technology in the classroom.  One of the most important ways to manage these issues is to establish a new curriculum.  The top example given was to use games to help get students engaged.  I know that my students really like to play review games using the clickers and I think developing other types of technology by using games could help.   Utilizing technology in the classroom can also help with collaboration such as using blog, wiki or even GoogleDocs.  Students can collaborate both in and outside of the classroom on core concepts.  Students will be more engaged if they are able to work in teams and use technology.  Since students are always using technology outside of the classroom if teachers incorporate technology inside their digital classrooms students will be more interested in any subject are.

Reference:

Collins, A., & Halverson, R. (2009). Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.