Thursday, March 5, 2015
Overview of ED521
Simply, a great class for any educator! I thoroughly enjoyed learning all of the new websites and technologies I am taking away from this class. The resources provided will really improve my classroom and give me a lot of resources if I move into a technology integrator position next year. I will have a lot of resources to share with my peer teachers. I like that our website will stay up even after the class is over so we can still access the data and resources. I feel this is a valuable class for any educator at any level.
Top 10 Take Aways From ED521
My Top Ten List from ED521 is as follows:
- Diigo, really like this organize by tags with this website. And the diigolet add on is great, I like it so much more than bookmarking pages.
- Twitter, who knew it could be used in education?! I didn't...
- Skitch, I was using PowerPoint previously to do this, but this works much better!
- Google forms, I knew you could make these but hadn't yet. In just the past few weeks I have made 3 forms and plan to make many more because they are easy, the survey participants feel they are user friendly, and Google organizes the information effectively.
- Wikipedia and now knowing that it can be a creditable source.
- Blogger, I have always wanted to start a blog, but just haven't done it and Blogger was really easy to use and I plan be blogging more now!
- Today's Meet, when presenting for Professional Development sessions or even when instructing students, a back channel can be very useful to kind of hear inside thoughts and questions of your audience.
- Google sites, I like you do not have to pay for a domain site or hosting. I wish it was more user friendly for a beginner.
- Mystery Skype, I plan to look into this further and try it with my 7th grade keyboarding class. Looks really cool!
- Symbaloo, I like organize by picture especially for younger students. Great to use as a homepage on the internet.
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