Assignment #11 Podcasting

Podcasting is a great digital tool to use within a classroom setting. Teachers/instructors can teach a short lesson, have students listen to music and other sounds, and can have students respond and comment to the podcast. Teachers can also use podcasting when class is cancelled. This way, students can keep up with their work and not get behind. Podcasting is an interesting way for students to do their homework or classwork by using the computer. If we make schoolwork more technology oriented, will students be more likely to do their work?

My Real Webquest

So my webquest finally works... thought i would save the url to it.

WEBQUEST

“Learning with Games and Simulations” Assignment 10

FunBrain

Bumble Numbers

This game was a great tool for students to use to practice their math skills. It was fun and entertaining.

Operation Order

This game is a great tool to get elementary students to practice and sharpen their skills dealing with order of operations and how to put an equation in order to get the correct answer.

Concept Map Assignment: Webspiration

This concept mapping tool called Webspiration would be a great tool to use within a classroom setting. This is because in a school setting, it is sometimes difficult to present difficult and detailed lessons with your class. A concept map will help students to see the steps and the process of a certain object and will help the students to link connecting ideas to one another. I used graduation as an example of a concept map because it shows students what the steps are and what components link together to help you to graduate. The graduation hat, the main point, leads to the big clock at the top of the concept map. This shows that it takes time to perform the tasks needed in order to graduate. The other links lead to classwork, homework, and links to class and homework. Links to class and homework include a bus, a laptop, and a usb drive because all of these objects are portable and travel from the home to the classroom.  The classwork link leads to three other links: objects that relate to school social life, tools used by the teacher, and tools used by the student in order to complete classwork. The last link from the graduation hat is the homework link. This link has a backpack that is connected to an open book and a calculator, two things that apply to doing homework and studying.


Concept Map: Graduation

Wordle

This wordle tool would be very useful in a classroom because teachers and students alike can use this to see what words they use the most when writing a paper or making a project. This can be helpful in creating a representation of your paper/project as well as helps with not using words too often withing a paper.

VoiceThread Assignment #8

I could definitely use VoiceThread in my future classroom because it would be great not only for helping out substitute teachers that may be teaching lessons in your class, but VoiceThread is great for when kids have snow days and you want them to complete a lesson before they come back to school. They can take notes from VoiceThread as well as find out what they need to complete before the next class.

For the iste standards,  I met the standard model digital age and learning.  VoiceThread is good for students to learn how to use because they may need to use it in the future for assignments and other projects. They also may need to learn how to use VoiceThread for when teachers in the future may have them use it or watch a lesson on it.

Voice Thread

Lauren, Ashley and Kaci's Online Safety Question

Should all educational sites like blogs, wikis, and youtube be blocked in schools just because they are social networking sites? Why or why not?

Google Forms Assignment #7

Google Forms
         I think that google forms has some great ideas on how to use it in different settings, especially in a classroom. I think that google forms has several great ways for children to give their feedback on their work or on their readings. Children can do book reviews on google forms and can write journals about things that they have learned. Also, students can use google forms for math homework and other math assignments. Google forms is also great for having students do surveys on how well the class is going and what they are struggling with. The only thing I would be worried about the students doing would be using google forms, then looking up their answers to their assignments and their journals on the internet, and etc. For example, if a student were to have a spelling test on google forms, he or she could easily look up the spelling of the work on the internet or spell check it using a word document. Using google forms may be very beneficial for some assignments, but may be also very bad for some assignments too.

(2) In your blog post,  respond to the following two questions.

• Based on your discussion with your classmates, what do you think are the three best ways of using Google Forms in this article?
• What are possible ways for you to use Google Forms in your classrooms?

Student' Knowledge About The Internet Survey
Update the Assignment 7 link in the classroom gallery.