Thankful
The cool use of technology that I am thankful for is that we can swipe our credit card at the pump when we get gas. Now that I have a child I can’t imagine having to wake her up, carry her into the gas station to pay cash, and carry her back out again. She is invariably asleep when we drive and this would make her miserable.
Now, I would probably buy the same amount of gas either way. But it might be an example of making life SO much easier.
I was trying to think of a similar thing I use in the classroom and it might be teacherease. Students and parents have online access to view my gradebook. They know exactly where they stand in real time. Grades 1.0 would be the paper grade book with calculator at end of semester. Grades 2.0 is the desktop based computer program or spreadsheet. Grades 3.0 is the online system that allows full analysis and access. It saves A LOT of time and effort.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I find online grades can be hacked by one of my students…he is about to graduate though! I want to use Engrade thereafter. How did you get that cool “listen to this podcast” in there from Talkr. I couldn’t do my correctly. I just don’t have the computer know how everyone else does. Just a plain old educator over here….