Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Top 10 Reasons to blog
1. It is a great way to stay in touch with parents.
2. You can make announcements to students and parents.
3. Can bring your students together.
4. Great place to post pictures of what students are doing.
5. You can give shout outs to students who do great things in class.
6. You can make it private so it can have more exclusive news for parents unlike a website.
7. It can show parents your involvement in their students lives and how you are invested.
8. Students will be excited to see their work on there so they will be excited to do the work.
9. It is a great way to be organized and keep track of what you do for each class so when you look back it is all filed and organized through the blog.
10. You can print it off at the end of the year and make a book out of it.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Top 10 Reasons to use Video in the classroom
1. It is a great way to engage the students
2. We can teach our students how to use technology
3. Great way to introduce a unit on something in history
4. Can tie together a lesson and make it more realistic
5. Emphasizes the importance of something
6. Effective for visual and auditive learners
7. There are a number of ways we can cut and make our own now so they can be very pertinent to the material presented in class.
8. They can be a good way to get the class involved and let them be creative.
9. You can have speakers in class through a video that we could never get into our class.
10. Videos can be powerful in bringing out feelings of those who watch them.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Top 10 reasons to use Apps in the classroom
1. They are always changing and there are new ideas
2. They cover so many different subjects
3. They can be great aids for students who are falling behind
4. They make learning fun for students
5. There are good apps for evaluating students
6. There are apps that keep kids accountable for their homework but it makes it more fun so they want to be.
7. They are accessible from a number of devices
8. We can keep parents informed through apps
9. Apps are a fun way to get kids involved in technology.
10. It is a great way to think of ideas on how to help your students
Tips for using Web quests
Top 10 Reasons to use WEB QUESTS in the classroom
1. Kids can work on their own
2. It can be very specific to a subject
3. It can include a few different subjects that connect
4. The kids can have fun while doing an assignment
5. Students will be excited to be using technology to do their assignment
6. You can include interactive games from the internet
7. You can bring a number of different ideas into the assignment so students don't become biased.
8. It can make students think a little more out of the box rather than just finding answers in a text book.
9. They help students learn how to navigate on the internet in addition to learning about the subject
10. It is a good way to organize your thoughts as a teacher and create an assignment that encompasses the whole unit.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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