After looking at the educational widgets here are a few that I really would like to add to my wiki. I think the students would really like the Word of the Day, and This Day in History. This would be great to connect with english and social studies. I also really liked the daily Bible Verse becuase this would fit into our regilion cirriculum. We often look at the the readings for the week before we attend mass and this would be something else that the students would be interested in. I would use it as like a bellwork type reflection time to get my lesson started.
Using widgets is something that the students in my class really like to do. With their young age, it is hard for the students to type in a web address without getting some of this wrong. Using widgets allows the students to just click. It is fast and easy and creates less frustration between the teacher and students.
Students could use a map widget for social studies and math assignment. They could track the places where people are visiting from and they create some type of graph to record the results. This could be a bar graph, pie graph etc. I know that the students would find it really interesting when someone from another country visits our site!
I think it's more fun to have all of the content right on one's teacher web page than to have to click through to a bunch of other websites. Widgets allow you to do just that! It keeps your web page up to date and interesting for students and parents.
ReplyDeleteI also discovered the daily Bible podcasts and plan to use them in my classroom. I plan on listening to them beforehand though.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about students having difficulty typing in a URL address and getting it right. That happens often with me in computer class with my fifth grade. The widget is definitely one way to help with that. I also like to put the links right on my wiki, that way students only have to remember how to get to the wiki.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea to do to incorporate the religious curriculum!
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