A)
Knowledge
gained.
During
these months, I had the chance to discover many internet sources that are
pretty useful for us as teachers to be. This question is very difficult to
answer since I cannot measure exactly everything I’ve had learned through this
semester. What I only know is that everything I had been in contact with has
been really meaningful to me because now I can apply or make use of a variety
sources that were all the time available to me, which I hadn’t realize before.
From
voxopop, voicethread, to quandary, delicious, and even prezi, I learn a lot of
new things of them. Since the ways I can apply those tools (not only to my
future classes but also in different aspects of my personal development) are
going to make a change in the “traditional matter”, I am expecting to enjoy
even more all the things I will perform. It is nice to make a change, but it is
even nicer when you know how to do so.
B) What attitude must be needed to work with online tools.
I guess to
me the principal characteristic we have to have is patience. As we are working
with new elements, the way we want them to work may not be the way we want. In general,
online tools bring us that touch of differentiation from the regular things we
are a costume to do. As I said before, changing make us even more engaged with
everything we do; besides, it breaks monotony which is something your students
will appreciate from you.
To conclude
my idea, we must keep positivism when doing different things because they might
not work at our first shot, but practice makes someone skillful in any area.
C) How these tools can be implemented in other subjects. Give specific
examples, please.
Some
of the tools that come to my mind right now are:
Slide.ly
This
tool will allow us to make like a picture portfolio for an art or design
subject
Storybuilder
We
can create our own story with different characters for our literature class
Voxopop
We
can record different discussions about politics, war, decisions, world matter, etc.
for your social studies class
Voicethread
You
can video-record the process of a project or experiment you did. This is for a
Science class.
Prezi
Allows
us to make those boring presentations in a more creative and different way. As you
can work with pictures, text, videos, documents, etc. this can for any subject.
Here is an Example
Delicious
Web
site that may allow you to keep track of the different links you are using.
This could work perfectly with Introduction to Educational Research as you need
to add all the links you have been using through your investigation.
Loose leaves
This
page allows us to write anything we want, from simple quotes to complete essays
with no limit of characters. This will be useful in a Literature or even
Composition subject.
Hot potatoes
This
tool brings us a variety of ways we can have students working on the target
structure. This will be really useful in all levels especially in Basic English
I
CHECK THIS VIDEOS
How to use JQuiz
How to use JCross
How to use JMix
How to use JCloze
How to use JMatch
How to use The Masher
D) What are some things that should be added or left out in a future course?
Things like
how to connect an LCD projector (some of students as myself need some help when
the time of setting or connecting this tools arrive)
The use of
the “mimio”, or another physical tool for teachers. What I mean with this is
that we could discover a lot of online tools through this semester, but there
are some other implements that we still don’t know how to use them.
How to make
the appropriate use of a lab.
How to
create a platform for students to work
E) Suggestions to improve the course.
To have a
permanent place of working will be great. As we were bringing our laptops, we
were very nervous to be robbed, or to damage our implements.
To have
access to other materials that allows us to work with no interference, like the
internet.
To develop
this type of classes I guess we will need a better internet connection
To conclude I want to share this video of the History of technology!!!.....
