Chapter three seemed a little simple to me, discussing voice recognition and note taking software, technology our generation is already used to and exposed to. As far as productivity software such as word processing and spreadsheets, both applications are extremely useful, especially in the teaching profession. Presentation software is also very familiar, Powerpoint being the main application exposed to us. It was good to learn that there are technologies created specifically for school purposes, such as school management software, grade book software (that will come in handy), and reference software.

Since my last posting I've learned how to create school newsletters and quizzes for class. I believe these things will be very helpful to me in the future because otherwise my quizzes would've looked extremely sloppy and my students would have made fun of me =(. I did not learn a lot of these things through my previous technology course, and am surprised and interested in the neat things you can do with microsoft word, an application I'm familiar with on the basis of essays and little else.

I would just like to share that I have read two very good books in the last two weeks for a couple of my classes; Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson, and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. If you have any free time, or just like to read, these books are great. I sound like Lavaar Burton on Reading Rainbow... ahhh I loved that show back in the day. Does anyone remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, Wishbone, or The Magic Schoolbus? Our children are going to be so deprived with their limited Spanish vocabulary they pick up from Dora...