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Best Examples of Instructional Activities with Student Engagement through Technology
Instructional Applications of Technology (our course title) is an equivalent phrase to technology integration and instructional technology. The simplest "definition" is using technology to achieve an instructional objective or outcome. This can be as simple as a drill and practice program where the learner develops a specific skill, such as, arithmetic facts or multiplication facts to more complex simulation and graphing software where higher order thinking skills are used to solve complex mathematical equations in authentic problem solving.

Based on my classroom experiences and the material I have reviewed in this course so far, I have chosen my two best examples of instructional activities with student engagement through technology (that I do, I have seen, I have heard/read about, or I want to do).


 * Audio Recording (Podcast) - Definition of Instructional Activity with Student Engagement through Technology:**

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 * My Best Examples of Instructional Activities with Student Engagement through Technology:**

The first example that I selected is a Thinkfinity lesson that I had found on the Thinkfinity site during a previous assigment. I found this lesson to be relevant to my area of interest because it is design related. I would like to teach design classes in the future and would love to integrate technology such as this into my classroom teaching experience. The second example is an instructional tutorial that I created with PowerPoint in EDT 6000 (the course preceding this one). It is relevant to my current job and I even used it and sent it out to faculty members in an effort to make collecting outcomes data easier and go more smoothly. It has been a great benefit not only to me, but to my entire department at the university.
 * Process and Reason Selected:**

Engaging students through the integration of technology into learning methods is something I consider to be extremely valuable and one of the most beneficial pieces of information that I will walk away from after this course. The more engaging an activity is, the more interesting it becomes to the student/learner. I used a PowerPoint tutorial that I created in EDT 6000 as my second best example of an instructional activity with student engagement through technology. You can view this tutorial by clicking here! This link will take you to my PowerPoint page under EDT 6000, where my Outcomes Assessment Tutorial is displayed. Just click to watch it!
 * Reflection:**