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Throughout the course of the class, we went out and found websites on our own and then shared them with the class. We talked about how they could be useful in education and how we as teachers could use them in our own classes.
This was the second presentation that I did. Tinychat is a chatroom where people can talk via text or webcam. I also made use of Jing for recording the actual presentation.
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Using Jing was a little daunting because you had to record your presentation and you didn't really want to mess up on the recording. It took some finagling to get the actual presentation uploaded but it just forced me to get creative with technology which is always a good way to learn about it.
This was the first presentation that I did. Blogger is a basic blogging website that is easy to use. Students can use it to post their writings and get quick feedback from their classmates. Teachers can also use it to post information for the students.

I think that the presentation went well for the most part. I had planned it out and I knew the website well so I was able to navigate it easily. I also was using it for a different class so it was easy to think of ways to use this website for educational purposes.
Class Demonstrations
Classmate Demonstration Sites
My fellow classmates also demonstrated various sites to the class, and I've found some of them to be pretty helpful as well. Here are a few examples of some of the ones that I've tried out.
Flickr is a website that you can upload photos to. You can also then share these photos as well. It's a nice way to organize your photos and they also will be stored there, in case of computer crashes, which would have been helpful for me in the past. I'm not sure how it could be helpful in a classroom setting, at least for what I'm going to be teaching, but it's still a nice site to use.
Google hangouts is similar to tinychat which I demonstrated, but this one is available to those who have Google accounts. Many schools are going in that direction, using Google accounts and such, and it could be just as useful as tinychat in that manner. It's also easier to weed out the less appropriate people that can be found on tinychat, and makes it more school appropriate.
Shelfari is a virtual bookshelf that is connected with Amazon. As someone who owns a Kindle, I found this site definitely helpful. It allows you to sort out books by what you've read and what you want to read in the future. As someone with a long list of books to read, it's a nice way to organize everything and will definitely be helpful once I become a teacher as well.