Our network manager has blocked all photo sharing sites. We can only use Picasa for our own photo management. I love all the creative ways teachers have come up with to use photos to enhance the teaching process.
I thought Flickr was very easy to use. I'll be making a case to unblock it with our netork manager.
One way I might use photosharing in my class is with my lessons on China. I could have students comment on pictures that depict their team's area they created a wiki about, "a photo field trip" to go along with their research. This will address NETS-S communication and collaboration.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
New Literacies
Educators face many challenges in making sure students have the literacies they'll need to be productive in the 21st century. Keeping up with technology is certainly a major challenge; making learning fun and meaningful while using technology; and showing how necessary tools are in acquiring skills that are essential to be productive.
Will Richardson points out that "more and more content will be user generated". Educators will need to teach students to be editors as well as readers. Critical reading will become an even more important skill. Curriculum will gravitate toward teaching how to manage the amount of information made available to students. Collaboration will become the standard, requiring educators to put additional focus on teaching students to "work with others and be accepting and open to opposing views".
Will Richardson points out that "more and more content will be user generated". Educators will need to teach students to be editors as well as readers. Critical reading will become an even more important skill. Curriculum will gravitate toward teaching how to manage the amount of information made available to students. Collaboration will become the standard, requiring educators to put additional focus on teaching students to "work with others and be accepting and open to opposing views".
More Web 2.0 Tools
I think I'm most sold on wikis. I'm definitely going to create a wiki for my grade 4 students. The focus with be their China unit. I'll give each class a separate category to pursue. I like the way wikis allow students to add information, but also to work together to create the best possible entries. That's true collaboration. It also teaches students to work together and be respectful of their peers.
Podcasting
This was too much work for the product. I found myself writing a little tutorial for myself as the ones I found online as well as the online user guide for podbean to be inaccurate. I've used other tools that are way easier to deal with and offer other aspects to the tool that my students can get something out of (voicethread). Maybe I'll think about using a podcast when during my poetry unit as I found a site I kind of liked, but as far as having the students create their own, I'll pass. This tool could address NETS-S #6 tech operations and concepts.
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