and the blogging continues

Today we dove deeper and deeper into the world of the handhelds as we learned different programs. The first programs that we learned dealt with concept mapping. This is, indeed, something that I think is definitely used in the classroom on a regular day to day basis. I think that it is really interesting since I always used the outline format, rather than the whole mapping process. I can vaguely remember using this in school. But, moreso, I remember using the form of the outline in which you have roman numerals, capital letters, numbers, and lower case letters. I am not sure if they still use this in the schools. However, I am aware that this webbing technique of concept mapping is very common. I think this can be explained by the four different software programs that we looked at. I think that there are advantages to all four and I was really impressed by the different ways that students could organize the information that they received. I think that this would work especially well in a language arts/reading class in which students could outline the story that they are reading. I, also, can see it in different subjects in which students are reading and need to organize information so that the information is easy to comprehend. The second part of the class dealt with making the e-books. I found this particularly interesting in which I thought that it was a harder process to make an e-book than it actually is. I do think that oneday schools are going to go to the level of teachers creating their own e-books rather than buying textbooks for the class. I think that this is amazing, however, I am not so sure if I would like this as a student. Maybe if that is the only thing that I knew. However, I think for me that they are too small and the illustrations and graphics just are not there. I do see the pros however. . . soemthing to think about!