Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Web 2.0 Resources

I learned a lot of new things this week. Web 2.0 resources are freely available to anyone with an Internet connection and provide users with the powerful capabilities of generating and sharing online content, creating online portfolios, social networking, and tagging or rating other user-generated content (Robyler & Doering, p. 426). I think these tools will really motivate students! It might take a little bit of time for a teacher to get used to using these tools, but the rewards will be worth the time learning how. Educators will use these systems when they see how powerful the capabilities they offer to enhance classroom learning (p. 176). I really enjoyed Animoto. It is such an “attention grabber” to introduce something. I plan on using the Animoto video that I made to motivate my students on making their ecosystem projects this upcoming year. My favorite was Glogster. It wasn’t very user friendly, but I really liked my end result. I’m not sure how much I would actually use it during the school year though. It was very time consuming, and I’m not sure I would have enough time to create one during the year. I am going to use the one that I created about plants during our AMSTI Science plant unit. All of these resources are very motivated and encouraging to students. Students who usually struggle to complete a project will often tackle a hypermedia project enthusiastically (p. 176). I am also going to allow students to make a fake Twitter post. I think they would love doing this! They would be so encouraged to really think about what they learned so that their Tweet would be published for everyone to see. Students who enjoy instruction are more likely to focus more attention on it (p. 178). Overall, I really enjoyed this week! I think these resources are extremely beneficial!
Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.
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  1. UnknownJuly 10, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    I agree that incorporating technology in the classroom is time consuming for teachers but also very rewarding. I was just telling my husband that when I return to teaching, I plan to use most of the resources from this class. I liked Glogster as well. Yours looks great, and I definitely think your students will be motivated to learn about the Plant Life Cycle with all the neat resources you have created for them!

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