INTRODUCTION

     The experience that has been gathered from using educational technology does not involve the following: Glogster, Animoto, Pixton, Xtranormal, Zunal, and Prezi. Although, the programs listed are going to be exciting to learn throughout the educational course. The types of media, software, and search engines that have been utilized are as follows: bloggers, website builders, YouTube, Facebook, EBSCO, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, video editors, and audio editors. Exemplified in Duffy & McDonald (2011), the library has become more of an impractical facility in the past 20 years due to the online databases that contain customizable search engines and the latest research. The students have access to millions of media files that are formatted into audio files, video files, pictures files, and text files on the internet (pp. 5, 16-17).

EBSCO:

EBSCO Search Engine

According to Knezek (2000), the future of instructional strategy involves incorporating technology. The students should be studying digital media by using readily available technological devices, like computers, laptops, iPads, and cell phones. Furthermore, the students should use technology in collaboration with peer learning, so group projects, collaborative ideas, and scaffold creative input are possible. The creative thinking from study groups will make problem solving more effective, due to the knowledge and talents that are integrated into an academic product (p. 7).

References

Duffy, J. & McDonald, J. (2011). Teaching and learning with technology (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. 

Flagler College. (n.d.). How to use EBSCO databases [Picture file]. Retrieved from www.flagler.edu/library/guides/ebscohost2.html

Knezek, D. (2000). Nets for teachers (2nd ed.). Arlington, VA: ISTE.