How technology was integrated into my classroom

As far as I can remember technology has been integrated into my classrooms. There is a vast amount of technology that my teacher's have used to share information with their students. Starting with computers to do research, an overhead projector and elmo to communicate with the class, powerpoint presentations to share information and television to show movies or t.v. clips.
There is a specific time when I can remember one of my teachers sharing their information with my class via a powerpoint presentation to help my peers and I learn. After the presentation my teacher then brought in the television for us to view a movie about the discussed topic. I was in my 11th grade, AP environmental science class. At the time my teacher was introducing the topic of pollution and how if humans continue to pollute the earth it could result in serious measures, such as global warming. My teacher introduced to us the basic information about pollution, erosion, and serious world disasters caused by pollution through a powerpoint presentation. The powerpoint was extremely effective because on the slides there were only a few words and my teacher went into more detail about each bullet point to elaborate on the topics. He also incorporated many eye catching pictures that held the class's attention and interest. I thought by integrating this form of technology into the classroom it was extremely beneficial. My reasoning for this is, rather then my teacher simply lecturing to the class he found a way to incorporate technology to make the topic more appealing. The inclusion of the pictures really helped the lesson go smoother over all. Rather then the students asking questions such as, what does pollution look like, or what did some of the natural disasters look like, the pictures the teacher provided on the powerpoint slides answered our questions for us. Furthermore, after my teacher presented us with the written information via powerpoint he allowed us to watch a video on the television that was in the class. The movie he let us view was, The Day After Tomorrow. After viewing this movie I had a better understanding of how important it is to keep our earth clean and free of pollution. I thought his approach towards furthering our understanding of the topic by using technology in the classroom was a fantastic idea. I can truly say that both my classmates and I enjoyed listening to our teacher's powerpoint presentation and viewing the video. This lesson left such an impact on my learning that I can still remember it to this day. Without the technology that my teacher used to get his information across, the lesson would have been less interesting, ordinary, and less creative. I greatly feel that technology has a postive impact on education. -Jenna S.