Technology Blog 2

     For my second technology blog, I decided to share my thoughts on our first presentation assignment, our Webtool Smackdown. I found everyone's presentations to really enlightening and creative. Even more, I could relate my professional field and daily life now to almost every single one that we have seen so far. 
     While I enjoyed all of the Smackdowns, I want to talk about a few that really stuck with me, especially if I realized they would be useful to be in the future. For one, I wish I had known about Google Docs before spending hundreds of dollars on Microsoft office. It's amazing that you can do all the same things as Microsoft but for free, which is great for college students drowning in debt, like myself. I was always a little skeptical to use Google Docs for projects, especially because I did not really have the desire to learn a new website. However, now I see how easy it is to use and how convenient it would be to work on group projects, and in the future, I could use it to collaborate with other professionals. Next, I really liked Socrative. It seems like a great way for students to be involved, and it would be less complicated than creating a Jeopardy game. Even though it is intended for teachers, I am sure I could somehow use it as a Speech-Language Pathologist. Lastly, another one that was cool was Remind. What a great way to be able to remind many people at once of something without having to use e-mail or print anything out. I could use that now when collaborating with group members and in the future when I'm working with many professionals, clients, etc. 
     I really like how we can all take away from the Smackdowns. It's a great way to quickly learn about resources that I have right at my fingertips but never knew existed. Also, everyone did a great job at keeping the class involved and interested. I think this was because we were all learning about things that we might have never heard of before. I know that was the case for myself. After last week, I am looking forward to finding out what else we can learn through each other when we complete future Smackdowns and other projects.