A wiki is different from a blog in that I feel a wiki is more of a community/collaborative site. From my experience I feel that more thoughts and ideas can be shared with a wiki. If a parents or someone else wanted to leave a comment on your blog page they would have to log on. For the wiki site, they could type you an email. Again this is based off what I know. It could be different but I would rather communicate on a wiki page. Also, a wiki page can have several different pages so that the teacher could let each child have a page. Unlike a blog, a wiki has the history tab which lets you see who edited the page and when. This is a great way to see if and track students working on an assignment that they were given.
In my classroom, the students use the wiki to go to math practice sites, accelerated reader, spelling city and view class pictures. They also can go to snapgrades and view their grades in my class.
Some problems that could occur could be that I would have to monitor comments and postings of my students. It would also require lots of individual help which I'm not sure I could fit into my computer time. I could get around this by doing activities that students could follow along step by step as I do them. It may require a few computer class periods but I think I could manage and each time the students would be more confident in using wikispaces.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thing 14
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/- This wiki is loaded with links that connect you with tools for creating things in the classroom. The links are all decribed and easy to connect to.
I loved this wiki when I saw it and thought that it would be really useful. I am just learning how to to use a lot of these tools, so it would offer lots of helpful ideas and it also is very easy to navigate. This you could intergrate into any subject area. I like that used each set of tools the links to each one are already there. That makes it fast and easy to click through which is excellent when you are pressed for time in the computer lab or classroom. Also it would be nice for students to be able to click on the link. Otherwise they are often typing the html wrong. This can be very frustrating to me.
To adapt this wiki page I would add some pages that have examples of ideas that have been done using these tools. That way you can see or the students can see what they are capable of producing.
I loved this wiki when I saw it and thought that it would be really useful. I am just learning how to to use a lot of these tools, so it would offer lots of helpful ideas and it also is very easy to navigate. This you could intergrate into any subject area. I like that used each set of tools the links to each one are already there. That makes it fast and easy to click through which is excellent when you are pressed for time in the computer lab or classroom. Also it would be nice for students to be able to click on the link. Otherwise they are often typing the html wrong. This can be very frustrating to me.
To adapt this wiki page I would add some pages that have examples of ideas that have been done using these tools. That way you can see or the students can see what they are capable of producing.
Thing 13
After using dumper.com to edit my photos I came across a Christmas ordament that would be great for the students to use for the holidays. They could take their school photo and make it into an ordament for their tree. Parents would love to have this keepsake of their child! Students could also use this site to help them create and edit photos for the yearbook. This would add some interesting effects to each photo. They would have a lot of fun doing this!
Outside of the classroom it would be a great tool to use for scrapbooking. It would probably be a lot cheaper to scrapbook this way too instead of buying all the supplies to add effects they are all right there on your computer! Neat!
Outside of the classroom it would be a great tool to use for scrapbooking. It would probably be a lot cheaper to scrapbook this way too instead of buying all the supplies to add effects they are all right there on your computer! Neat!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Thing 12
I was first introduced to Flicker at the MACUL conference last year and I was amazed at how wonderful it was! I was excited to learn more about it and share it with others. I also began thinking of the ways that I could use this in my classroom. I really think that for Social Studies and Science flicker could be a great added resource for the students to visit. It would be very helpful for example for students who were doing a report on Michigan or China. Students could use this site to find several differnt photos to put into a slideshow or powerpoint. It could also be used to upload photos to share at an open house to promote your school.
Some pitfalls of this program could be that the teacher will not always know all the photos that will come up for that topic. Teachers would have to pre-search or assist students. The teachers would also have to monitor that the students were keeping their photos private if they were uploading any.
This could be an excellent site for both students and teachers and I look forward to using it in my classroom!
Some pitfalls of this program could be that the teacher will not always know all the photos that will come up for that topic. Teachers would have to pre-search or assist students. The teachers would also have to monitor that the students were keeping their photos private if they were uploading any.
This could be an excellent site for both students and teachers and I look forward to using it in my classroom!
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