Mica+Manning

**Mica Manning** **Supervisor Customer Service, Verizon Wireless verizonwireless.com ** **Graduate Student, University of Arkansas at Little Rock**

I have really enjoyed using Adobe Creative Suite as a foundation for lesson planning and to familiarize myself personally with a specific software. More information about it can be found at # http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/?sdid=FNIFN&. I have discovered that it is set up to be very user friendly and although I have not purchased it myself, it allows students of various ages to be creative in many different areas of study and proffesions.

Each of the Special Features sections in the text are very interesting. Without these, I would not have been exposed to alternative ways of using technology aside from that used at work and for school. I think that an excellent way to support and impact online, web-based or long distance learning is through wikis. Discussion boards are very beneficial but wikis such as this one, provide more of illustrative way to accompany learning. With the addition of web cams and online or streaming video, wikis can serve as a multi-functional way for students to interact and demonstrate what they are learning via live feed or recorded enactment. Personal testimony and dialogue can further contribute to the use of this form of technology. Technology integration is exactly that; integration. Not only can it integrate students away from a conventional classroom setting but can also integrate ideas, more interactive sharing and more energetic learning.

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