I enjoyed Dr. Boyer's presentation on technology in the classroom. My only complaint is that I wished it would have lasted longer and that we could have learned more about new and exciting gadgets and technological wizardry that are going to be helpful in making our teaching careers more fruitful in the future. One of the great things I took away from the talk was the formula for deciding whether to implement new technology or not. It is nice to know that by asking oneself 2 questions, the answers will make the decision. Also included in the talk was a 4-square diagram to assess the strengths and weaknesses of new technology, in addition to weighing the opportunities and threats.
I found it particularly interesting that Dr. Boyer was adamant that we all should be using clicker technology. Some faculty have not yet implemented this technology within their classrooms for one reason or another, so it was interesting to see such a full-fledged one sided view.
I also found interesting the idea of storing bookmarks online instead of a browser or single computer. I had never thought of it before, but Dr. Boyer made a great point in that, "someday, your trusty computer is going to fail you." Immediately of concern to me would be work, pictures, and personal documents gone forever, but loosing bookmarks would not have been on the top of my list of things to worry about, until the dust had settled from everything else. Delicious sounds like a great place to store and share with an online academic society. He is also so right about how fun it is to say.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed Dr. Boyer's presentation about technology and am excited to implement some of the ideas he had about curation and creation into my own classroom this summer. I would like to thank Dr. Boyer for putting on such an engaging and informative presentation.
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