This past week our assignment was to create our own Wiki space. This was my first time attempting anything like this but I found it to be completely user friendly. Before this past week I knew what Wikipedia was but not how to create my own page. Through this assignment I have learned not only how to create my own wiki but also how valuable they can be.
Looking through other people's wikis is a good way to find out more about certain technologies that I may some day want to incorporate into my own classroom. Personally I think that it is very important to incorporate other cultures into your classroom because your classroom is bound to be multicultural. Because of my strong opinion on this matter I chose to review ePals and Skype. EPals is a website in which teachers can connect with other classrooms around the world and even work together on a project through the web. I chose Skype to go along with ePals because I think that it will take the connection between the two classrooms to a whole new level. Skype is a tool that allows people to communicate like they would through a phone call, but with Skype that can see each other on the computer monitor. This allows the students as well as the teachers to get to know each other on a more personal level. Being able to see one another also allows the students to learn more about other cultures through visuals, which can be one of the best ways to learn.
I would definitely make another wiki and will browse other peoples' wikis from now on to continue learning about different tools or ideas that could be incorporated into my future classroom.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Google Docs and Flubaroo
The further in the semester that I get, the more I am learning about technology and all of the different resources out there that are available to the public for FREE. Over the last two weeks I worked with Google Docs and Flubaroo.
Teachers can use Google Docs to create grade books that can be permanently online, which I really enjoyed because I love to be as "green" as possible. There are many different functions in Google Docs that do a lot of the work for you, such as calculating the maximum number of points, minimum number of points and even a function that calculates the grade that the student got on the assignment. But most importantly it is user friendly for those of us that are not technologically gifted.
This week in my class we learned how to make an online quiz that we can easily apply to our classrooms. In order to do this, we again used a Google Doc application called a "form". this allows the individual to choose a theme for the quiz as well as write each question that they would like to include. This application even has different formats for the questions such as multiple choice and text box. After creating the quiz you can make an answer key as well as e-mail the quiz out to your students, and as soon as they take the quiz their answers will appear in a Google Document that looks like Microsoft Excel. If that isn't amazing enough their is an application that can be installed to Google Docs called Flubaroo that will automatically grade the quizzes as the students submit them online! All-in-all I think that these two programs are incredibly useful and everyone should take advantage of them.
Teachers can use Google Docs to create grade books that can be permanently online, which I really enjoyed because I love to be as "green" as possible. There are many different functions in Google Docs that do a lot of the work for you, such as calculating the maximum number of points, minimum number of points and even a function that calculates the grade that the student got on the assignment. But most importantly it is user friendly for those of us that are not technologically gifted.
This week in my class we learned how to make an online quiz that we can easily apply to our classrooms. In order to do this, we again used a Google Doc application called a "form". this allows the individual to choose a theme for the quiz as well as write each question that they would like to include. This application even has different formats for the questions such as multiple choice and text box. After creating the quiz you can make an answer key as well as e-mail the quiz out to your students, and as soon as they take the quiz their answers will appear in a Google Document that looks like Microsoft Excel. If that isn't amazing enough their is an application that can be installed to Google Docs called Flubaroo that will automatically grade the quizzes as the students submit them online! All-in-all I think that these two programs are incredibly useful and everyone should take advantage of them.
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