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I had never really realized how great of a tool technology has been in the classroom until recently. Although people may dislike this program, Blackboard has been an amazing tool for checking grades, receiving and submitting assignments, and much more. PowerPoint is used in most of my classes to present and then later posted on blackboard.
Last semester I had this really "old school" political science professor. He would spend the whole class writing on the chalkboard and Ispent the whole class copying what he wrote. I could not focus on learning because i was busy coping and it seemed like he could not focus on teaching because he was to busy writing. If he has used power point and posted them on Blackboard, he could have spent much more time teaching and I could have been spent more time learning. There was also no real way of checking grades. That class really opened my eyes to how great it is to integrate technology in the class room.