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Video Conferencing

The topics all fit and relate to one another. I did not know that all these topics, that have been presented in class, could be linked to education and how teachers and students can suffer by participating in the crime. If my lesson dealt with the use of a computer, such as or research for a project or assignment I would inform the students of the different types of fraudulent sites and events that could happen. I would teach them the sign of pharming, phishing and vishing. My group and I have used skype for the previous presentation, and it worked out successfully. However, Skype for business, was not as easy as the original Skype. From the demonstration from class, my group and I wanted to use Skype for business to video chat and work on our content for our presentation. Skype for business, allows one to have a conference call with a total of 250 people, record while in the conference and share documents simultaneously (Microsoft, 2018). The variety of web conferencing tools...

Show and Tell

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Assistive technology allows students with disabilities, the chance to be independent. Depending on the disability, students can type out their notes on a laptop, or use voice recognition programs to take the notes for them. Features such as this allows the teacher and students to continue to focus on the lesson at hand. As an educator, I would introduce some assistive technology to mu class by assigning a project. The project I would choose is show and tell.   The students will be required to bring in a form of technology or a picture of how the object looks that they used in every day. All students would show and teach their fellow peers what technological devices they use and the basic functions of it. The activity would involve students with disabilities, and this would be an opportunity for the student to educate the students common items we all use but, how it helps them and their disability (George., 2005). This way the students become the teacher, and they get an underst...