Andy’s presentation

I appreciated Andy’s introduction to using technology in education by talking about the meaning of the term, all that it represents.

Using technology in the presentation

I thought it was funny that my laptop, which has been extremely reliable, was somehow in a wireless black hole, sitting where it was in the room. I could not get online. Meanwhile, Jennifer is merrily going ahead and distributing laptop computers to students and they are all going online. It was a perfect example (of which there are many) of the affordances – being able to look up mulitple definitions online as a class – and the constraints – not being able to go online myself for the presentation. Luckily I had all my files on my computer, so I was able to function. It always pays to prepare a backup system.