Scootle is an amazing site! I have spent quite a bit of time exploring what is a available and identifying learning paths that are applicable to my students.
Second Life is an engaging and fun way to stimulate learning for both students and teachers. The virtual worlds bring topics to life, as with most technology the students will very quickly learn how to navigate the site. I would use this site with upper primary students and some of the Stage 2 students in my Enrichment groups.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Module 8
Googlereader is fantastic and very user friendly. I have spent alot of time adding my favourite sites to my personal page. I have also added my link to Delicious as well as my school site.
Googlereader will make browsing the web so much quicker and easier.
With each new module I complete I become more amazed at what is available and how easy it is even for someone like me to use these sites and tools.
Googlereader will make browsing the web so much quicker and easier.
With each new module I complete I become more amazed at what is available and how easy it is even for someone like me to use these sites and tools.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Module 7
Delicious what a great site.
It certainly makes finding my favourite websites quicker and easier.
As a site for classroom use it definitely has a place. A class page could easily be constructed that all students could access, on this pages the most useful and most visited sites could be stored. This would enable student to use these sites easily both at home and school. Better time management would be the advantage as the endless search for suitable sites would no longer be necessary. However the teacher would need to manage any additions to the page that the students wished to make.
Delicious definitely has a place in the classroom. A staff page would also prove useful in sharing useful sites with colleagues.
So far I have enjoyed learning how to use all the great sites and tools that are part of this course. I have in no way mastered any of them but at least I now know they are available and I am growing in my understanding of how to use them in the classroom.
It certainly makes finding my favourite websites quicker and easier.
As a site for classroom use it definitely has a place. A class page could easily be constructed that all students could access, on this pages the most useful and most visited sites could be stored. This would enable student to use these sites easily both at home and school. Better time management would be the advantage as the endless search for suitable sites would no longer be necessary. However the teacher would need to manage any additions to the page that the students wished to make.
Delicious definitely has a place in the classroom. A staff page would also prove useful in sharing useful sites with colleagues.
So far I have enjoyed learning how to use all the great sites and tools that are part of this course. I have in no way mastered any of them but at least I now know they are available and I am growing in my understanding of how to use them in the classroom.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Module 6
This module was a lot of fun, it has endless possibilites for engaging students in learning.
Bubbl.us is a fantastic tool for organising thoughts and planning a learning task. I think many of the tools we have been exploring are better suited to Years 3 to 6 in the Primary school. However the sites could be used in joint constructions using a IWB for the younger grades.
This is the link to my Gloghttp://cosican.glogster.com/web-20-glogging/
Bubbl.us is a fantastic tool for organising thoughts and planning a learning task. I think many of the tools we have been exploring are better suited to Years 3 to 6 in the Primary school. However the sites could be used in joint constructions using a IWB for the younger grades.
This is the link to my Gloghttp://cosican.glogster.com/web-20-glogging/
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