Chapter 3 deals with Application Software, and all of its many uses. Application Software, or application programs, are used in several different ways: as a productivity/business tool, supporting school and professional activities, assisting with graphics and multimedia projects, helping with home and personal activities, and facilitating communications. The different uses of application software in school are: school/student management, grade books for the different teachers, educational reference tool, special needs whether with students or specific topics, and note taking. Most of these tools are essential to the modern day teacher, for example the teacher's grade book. Although, teachers have a written back of up of their grade books, most rely heavily on the grade book they use through the computer which helps compute averages for tests, quizzes, and overall scores.
Using application software can help in many differents aspects of a person's life. With the home/person applications, people are able to keep track of their own personal finance, get their taxes in order, and what most of us use, entertainment. Communications is a major factor in today's world. Everyone is constanly trying to find ways to keep in contact with one another and most of the ways that they use are through application software. For example, most everyone has an e-mail account (its almost become a requirement in today's society), instant messages, web browser, blogs, and even newsgroups have their own application software.
I have never had the opportunity to use Inspiration before, and found that it was an interesting program to use. I think that it would be very benifical in the classroom, especially to help keep students attention during class because this method is a lot more interesting than the typical outline. It would also probably be a good tool to use in an English class, where students could use the program to create ideas for their paper and releating topics.
6 comments:
I also feel as if Inspiration will be useful in the classroom. And also fun for the kids too!
I also think that inspiration will help keep childrens attention in the classroom as it is interesting to look at.
I want to be an English teacher and agree that this program will help students a great deal when it comes to writing papers.
It is neat to see how so many things are changing and becoming more advanced like the application softwares like the gradebook. I think this is a great thing that will be very beenficial when it comes time for me to teach.
Technology really has allowed us to become more independent. Application software allows us to do our own finances and taxes...we no longer need to consult someone of that profession.
It really is cool how much computers can help. There are now progrmas to do so many things that would have been done by hand or done manually on the computer.
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