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
Thursday, October 18, 2012
DK Quiz App
The DK quiz app is a great way to introduce students to new topics. There is a huge range of topics and could be a fun way to get kids interested in learning. It is also timed so students are challenged to think quick. I think this would really draw students in because they have to be focused to even be able to follow the quiz.
Each topic has over 20 questions so you are not constantly starting over but instead utilizing your time in the class well. One great thing I found about the app is that after you have finished the quiz it gives you the option to retry so students can remember the answers they went through rather than just guessing. The thing that wasn't great about the app is that it only shows you briefly what the right answer is and there is no way to go back and look at them so it would be hard as a teacher to teach your students the right answer. Hopefully after we redid it enough times the students would be familiar with the questions and answers.
Other Negatives:
Once you click on the quiz it starts timing and there is no way to go back and pick a different quiz until you finish the one opened. I tried exiting out of the app completely but when I opened it again it was still on the same quiz. This would be a pain if you were prepared when you clicked on it or if you decided your students would prefer a different quiz.
Other Positives:
The app allows you to connect with other people to compete on the quizzes. If you had an internet connection you could compete with others online. I think it would also be a fun way to compete with other classes. This would be fun to connect kids from different classes either in the school or even across the country. It would give students an incentive to learn the information.
If the app can get the few little kinks worked out, I would definitely use it in my class. I think students would really look forward to it and it would be a fun way to learn new facts.
Each topic has over 20 questions so you are not constantly starting over but instead utilizing your time in the class well. One great thing I found about the app is that after you have finished the quiz it gives you the option to retry so students can remember the answers they went through rather than just guessing. The thing that wasn't great about the app is that it only shows you briefly what the right answer is and there is no way to go back and look at them so it would be hard as a teacher to teach your students the right answer. Hopefully after we redid it enough times the students would be familiar with the questions and answers.
Other Negatives:
Once you click on the quiz it starts timing and there is no way to go back and pick a different quiz until you finish the one opened. I tried exiting out of the app completely but when I opened it again it was still on the same quiz. This would be a pain if you were prepared when you clicked on it or if you decided your students would prefer a different quiz.
Other Positives:
The app allows you to connect with other people to compete on the quizzes. If you had an internet connection you could compete with others online. I think it would also be a fun way to compete with other classes. This would be fun to connect kids from different classes either in the school or even across the country. It would give students an incentive to learn the information.
If the app can get the few little kinks worked out, I would definitely use it in my class. I think students would really look forward to it and it would be a fun way to learn new facts.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Top 10 Reasons to use Powerpoint
1. It is very specific to topic
2. There are themes put together for you
3. Some kids are visual learners
4. It is easy to include pictures within the powerpoint
5. It is a great way to present new ideas
6. Kids are familiar with them and can follow easily
7. You can embed videos on the topic so it has some creativity to the lesson
8. It is easy to embed links to other websites
9. You can add themes to the power point to make it easy to read
10. It is a good way to give yourself notes for lectures
2. There are themes put together for you
3. Some kids are visual learners
4. It is easy to include pictures within the powerpoint
5. It is a great way to present new ideas
6. Kids are familiar with them and can follow easily
7. You can embed videos on the topic so it has some creativity to the lesson
8. It is easy to embed links to other websites
9. You can add themes to the power point to make it easy to read
10. It is a good way to give yourself notes for lectures
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Top 10 ideas for Prezi in the Classroom
1. Great way to teach a new concept to students
2. Reading out loud
3. Educating parents on school schedule...via the web
4. Description of task w/ more detail
5. Different paths through the data?
6. Educational games that can draw the students in by the pop ups and transitions..easier way to create games
7. Group editing projects across the internet
8. Embed video for visuals and presentations
9. Organize old power points into Prezi
10. Different level of teaching
11. Scaling for math objects
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
One of Many ??????
How early in the school system do you think we should be introducing our students to technology? Should elementary kids be using computers for homework?
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