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Objective 9 **Knowledge of media communication technologies that enrich learning opportunities. **  __**Meeting the Objective: **__ My personal blog served as a place for myself and my classmates to share ideas and technology to help with our classroom instruction. By writing my blog and commenting on others, I was able to discover several new technologies that I frequently use in my instruction. Reading my classmates' blogs also provided me with different views on both technology and teaching methods. I shared my blog with my colleagues so that they see how to better integrate technology in their classroom. I used Twitter almost identically like my personal blog. By following different educators, I found several good resources for my classroom. Also, I was able to easily disseminate that information to my classmates and colleagues through Twitter. Often, I found examples of using technology in the classroom by simply searching Twitter. The usage of Twitter for my students was limited due to their age and not everyone having the same technological resources.  My activity wiki gave students the most interactive experience of all of the resources encountered in ED 505. Under the pages of tutorials in my wiki, the students were able to post questions and comments if they did not understand the material. Also, the students could use the links provided in the wiki to help clarify any topics. The wiki included a page for example problems that the students completed and submitted their answers. Finally, both of the projects from my lesson plans were published on my wiki. __**Personal Blog **__  [] __**Twitter **__  [] __**Activity Wiki **__  http://fordj5272.wikispaces.com/