1. What are your favorite tools you now have in your personal technology toolbox? Briefly describe a particular activity that you will plan for your students using at least one of these new tools.
I enjoyed the digital storytelling tool. I think the students could use this tool to write class stories about projects or field trips we do during the school year. I think I could use this to model the project to the kids, and have them work in groups to tell a story, perhaps about their impressions about our new school building.
2. How have you transfomed your thinking about the learning that will take place in your classroom?
I think that the learning will be in many varied forms this year. We will have to balance the students' technology learning with their composition practice and story writing for the TAKS test, since many of the apps didn't address composition writing.
3. Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
There is a lot to learn in technology, and a lot that our students will be expected to know in their learning for the rest of their education.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tool # 11
For your Tool #11 assignment:
In YOUR blog post, discuss at least three things you would want to make sure your students understand about being good digital citizens. Explain briefly how you would "teach" the idea of digital citizenship to your students.
Three things that I would want my students to understand about being good digital citizens are to be safe, to be a courteous user, and to use reliable and valid websites.
I would use brain pop videos to review with students information about internet safety and security. These will show the students what to be aware of when they are using the internet. I would also teach them to think about the information they find on websites, and not trust the information as truth just because it is on the internet. I would review a lesson about hoax websites that our librarian taught them during technology time last year. Above all, I would be monitoring my students as they are working on their computers to ensure that I can help them before problems arise.
In YOUR blog post, discuss at least three things you would want to make sure your students understand about being good digital citizens. Explain briefly how you would "teach" the idea of digital citizenship to your students.
Three things that I would want my students to understand about being good digital citizens are to be safe, to be a courteous user, and to use reliable and valid websites.
I would use brain pop videos to review with students information about internet safety and security. These will show the students what to be aware of when they are using the internet. I would also teach them to think about the information they find on websites, and not trust the information as truth just because it is on the internet. I would review a lesson about hoax websites that our librarian taught them during technology time last year. Above all, I would be monitoring my students as they are working on their computers to ensure that I can help them before problems arise.
Tool # 10
For your tool #10 assignment on YOUR blog:
1. Discuss some of the free educational apps you reviewed.
Some of the apps I looked at include the following: Word of the Day, Fact of the Day, Did You Know?, and Quote of the Day.
2. OPTIONAL: If you had an opportunity to play with one of the devices, briefly describe your experience. Was there a WOW moment?
I was looking at these devices from Apple's list included with this module.
3. Discuss ways your students could use the iTouch or iPad and appropriate apps in your class.
I think that the Word of the Day or Quote could be used to help increase my ESL students' English vocabulary or thinking and reasoning skills in a fun way. The Fact of the Day or Did You Know? could be particularly helpful with my GT students because it could create a spark for them where they may want to research a topic more fully that they have learned about through one of these apps.
1. Discuss some of the free educational apps you reviewed.
Some of the apps I looked at include the following: Word of the Day, Fact of the Day, Did You Know?, and Quote of the Day.
2. OPTIONAL: If you had an opportunity to play with one of the devices, briefly describe your experience. Was there a WOW moment?
I was looking at these devices from Apple's list included with this module.
3. Discuss ways your students could use the iTouch or iPad and appropriate apps in your class.
I think that the Word of the Day or Quote could be used to help increase my ESL students' English vocabulary or thinking and reasoning skills in a fun way. The Fact of the Day or Did You Know? could be particularly helpful with my GT students because it could create a spark for them where they may want to research a topic more fully that they have learned about through one of these apps.
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