Integrating Technology into my Teaching

I believe that technology can add to any lesson in new and interesting ways.  After exploring the podcasts available on iTunes, I realized that these will be useful resources to integrate technology into my classroom.  My concentrations are Social Studies and Language Arts; I found two podcasts that could be very beneficial to each content area.  I found a CNN student news podcast that I think would be useful in a social studies classroom to use as a current event at the beginning of the class period.  I will also use vidoes to teach certain topics, such as one I used this week from national geographic to teach about American Indians.  If the resource is available in my future classroom, I will also incorporate the use of a smartboard to allow my students to interact with the lesson. Now that I am learning how to use blogs and wikis I plan to use these for my students and their parents to use at home.  Not only will it be a fun place for the students to learn and stay organized, parents will also have acess to the information their students are learning, and will be able to monitor homework assignments.  I still need to learn more, but I have gotten a lot of new ideas just from the first three classes!