This week I have been in the classroom as a substitute teacher, and also assisting in the guidance office because the guidance counselor is going on maternity leave, so I am there to help with students who have missing assignments. But when I am in the classroom I get to meet so many awesome students both in the middle school and the high school. When I am in the classroom, I can see how I can use so many of the resources we have learned about this week, such as Prezi, Voicethread, and Slideshare. My favorite of all three of them, were the Prezi and Slideshare. For this assignment, I did three separate ways of displaying my reviews of these cites. I had a lot of fun with these reviews. For two of them, I used Kidspiration, which I'm upset that my free 30 day trial is up soon. For the first one about Slideshare, I used bubbles that explained what slideshare was, and then connect arrows to the pros and cons of the cite, which linked down to my rationale for using it in my classroom. I used several colors and made it fun and creative. My second one about Voicethread was the most creative one I made. I used the pictures of people on the side that acted like they were in a normal classroom and asking about the cite. I had three students in my review who had thought bubbles and so did the teacher. Then i put in separate boxes the pros and cons of the site. At the end, I had the teacher have a thought bubble explaining why she would use this cite in the class. It was a lot of fun do do that kidspriration because it was different an made it my own.  For the Prezi review, I used Glogster do review it, it wasn't as engaging as my other reviews, but I still made it more interactive and fun than PowerPoint. My favorite cite that we viewed was Slideshare, because there is so many works on the cite and you can almost anything you need in a short period of time. My least favorite was the Voicethread because I like to speak to the class so I can answer any questions right away. I did like that other teachers could comment on the thread of what they liked or another way of solving the problem. I would use the voicethread cite if I wasn't at school that day and I still need to go through with my lesson plans so I could explain the lesson in my own words and give them all the information they would need instead of trying to have the sub explain it. All of these cites are different from plain old PowerPoint and they are more engaging which may be exciting for the students and I would use all of these in my classroom to change it up every once in awhile. I'm starting my non linear PowerPoint, but I am having some trouble thinking of a topic and tying to make whatever i chose to be fun for the students. I am not proficient with PowerPoint so it might be a challenge to figure out how to make it active but it will be a fun new tool to learn. I cant believe we are halfway through the semester and all that I have learned so far will be so helpful when I become a teacher of my own, I just hope that all the technology doesn't change by the time I'm finished with school, because a whole lot has changed since I finished high school five years ago.