Tuesday+Symposium

__**Tuesday Symposium**__
During Tuesday session, several technology seminars encouraged exciting lessons for my classroom. Many websites were presented in Kristi Skogstad's presentation "Who Has Time for Technology" that linked useful websites that create time savers to creating Smart programs and teacher aids. Her information made the switch to technology much quicker process when you can borrow resources from other teachers. One tool that was the most influential today was the Prezi.com website. Within this website, users are able to implement more interactive and entertaining presentations. A great example of this would be David Warlick's presentation on the first day of the summer symposium. As a visual learner myself, I noticed my attention and concentration was much greater during Warlick's presentation than traditional PowerPoint presentations. In my classroom, PowerPoint is a way to get information out to all of my students clearly and effectively. I have found this last year of teaching that the PowerPoint are not engaging my students as much as I would have liked. I am very excited to transfer my content into Prezit presentations. Overall, several of the presenter demonstrated fast and useful ways to engage students with technology.

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