Week 10: Technology Integration Why, What, and How of Effective Technology Use

Our questions are focused on digital tips and the voicethread. Please answer at least one of the questions and you are encouraged to respond to others' posts.

Q1. What tip has been the most helpful to you? Which tip holds the most importance? (Reading 10.1)

Q2. Pick one of the Top 10 Best for Young Learners and give a scenario of how you could use this in your classroom. (Reading 10.2)

Q3. After viewing the side order voicethread examples, which do you think is the most effective in provoking thought? Why?

Please share your opinions so we can discuss them.

Happy Posting!

Love, Melissa, Cheryl, Nicole, Katie and Chelsea

Week 9 Free and Open Educational Resources

Welcome to our Week 9 Blog! Please read the two articles assigned for this week, and respond to at least one of the following questions. Happy reading!

Question 1: How can you, as a future educator, use freely open content websites in your classroom? How will using this strategy benefit you as an educator, as well as your students?

Question 2: Do you think that there are any potential dangers in having such free and open websites available? What types of problems may you encounter while giving your students such freedom through the use of the internet?

Question 3: How will you familiarize yourself with all of the Google apps? In what ways will you incorporate these applications into your classroom? Do you think these applications will benefit your students and the classroom as a whole? Please explain why or why not.

Please respond as much and as often as you can! We would really appreciate your participation! Thanks, and have a FANTASTIC week :)

Love you 602,
Samantha Horowitz, Amanda Schmitt, Stephanie Battista, Alicia Smith, and Amy Garrett

Week 7 Free and Open Educational Resources

Hi Class!

I hope you enjoy our questions. You only have to answer one out of the three questions, but feel free to answer more if you like. Keep the discussion going.

Q1) In the article, Open Educational Resources Serve the World by Sally M. Johnstone they discuss how different people and profession share information on the web. As future teachers, there are many benefits in sharing information online. What do you believe is the most beneficial with sharing information online and why?

Q2) In the article, TopTen for Young Learners there is a link for Skype and blogs, do you believe these would be useful in your classroom or any other classroom how and why? If not please explain why.

Q3) In Praise of Sharing by James L. Hilton in the closing Hilton writes, "If we want to preserve innovation we have to begin asking how we can share, rather than how can protect". Where and with what would YOU draw the line between innovation and pirating?