Module IV
Email
• Benefits and advantages: range from communicating with colleagues, students, and parents. Messages can be organized, and used to facilitate collaboration with students in and out of the classroom;
• Utilized in the classroom: To communicate/keep parents and students updated on events, and provide feedback. This includes a class web page, and discussion groups, and distribution lists.
Poll Everywhere.com
• Benefits and advantages: standard web technology allows live responses from any venue. Conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv or print. (free for those who need to collect 30 or fewer responses per poll.) plans for K-12 and Higher Education are available
• Utilized in the classroom: class can vote after a debate, for a persuasive argument, choice of assignment, class president, school/class rules. Etc.
Linkedin.com
• Benefits and advantages: locate friends, alumnae, professional contacts
• Utilized in the classroom: grades 10 and up are able to search for contacts in industry, exchange information, ideas, and job opportunities as part of coursework, or project. Create professional groups, contacts of portfolios.
Winksite.com
• Benefits and advantages: a mobile website community that can be shared worldwide. Immediately connects to web pages that provide hundreds of links within the category.
• Utilized in the classroom: an fun alternative to the usual search engines. Visually appealing, students can browse tagged sites by category alphabetically.
Twitter.com
• Benefits and advantages: called microblogging, this web 2.0 tool can be used to make contact without sharing cell phone numbers or email addresses.
Utilized in the classroom: Application “tweetworks” can be used for group communication. Announcements for upcoming projects, tests, change in schedule. Send out updates, current events, follow professors or classmates for research purposes.
References
Email: Learning Light e-Learning Center:. Retrieved October 19th, 2009 from http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/usingoutlook.htm
Linkedin: Relationships Matter. Retrieved October 19th, 2009 from http://www.linkedin.com/home
Polleverywhere.com:Text Messaging, Polls, (SMS) Audience.Retrieved October 20th, 2009 from http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Sketchfu: Draw, Share. Retrieved October 20th, 2009 from http://sketchfu.com/
Twitter: 50 Ways to use twitter in the college classroom. Retrieved October 20th, 2009 from http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/
Winksite: Winksite.com. Retrieved October 20th,
2009 from http://winksite.com/site/index.cfm
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Karen you've listed some really grade resources. I'm particularly interested in "polleverywhere". I'm doing a project now with 4th grade students in which they will be identifying what they feel should be the "7 Wonders" of our school. I'm going to check this out to possibly use for a voting process we're planning to do.
ReplyDeleteWandra, that sounds like a very interesting project. Please keep me update on what the students list as the "seven wonders!"
ReplyDeleteAlso, think of polls being taken for curriculum content, staff development topics, and even school lunch menu choices can be taken!
Karen
ReplyDeleteYou have posted some very interesting sites. I am not currently teaching a hisrtoy course but will be sharing the polleverywhere site with my colleagues. Also, have you used Twitter with students?
No, I teach at an alternative school for students who have been expelled from their homeschool. Students cannot access twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia or other social websites.
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