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This quote summarizes the main idea behind
learning how to integrate online tools in education. This week’s topic, I felt,
was somewhat familiar to me as I have always integrated online web tools in my
teaching and being a big Google fan, I was very happy to have Google Drive on
that list of online tools. I have used Google Documents, Google Presentations,
Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets in my line of instruction as they are always
accessible by phone, laptop, desktop or simple any internet connection would
make them available.
I have used Google Sites and will continue to
use as I feel it is a must for every teacher. I include extra credit activities
using Google Forms, map creation activities using Google Maps, Voki, and
Kidblog activities among many others.
However, I haven’t used a Wiki with my
students, which I intend to do along with a Nicenet account for discussions. I
believe it would be very interesting to see the students’ reaction to these
tools. In addition, I would like to make use of the online exercise makers such
as the Web Poster Wizard, Smile and HotPotatoes when
I download the program to my computer. I
feel that we have learned about so many resources, that it will take forever to
try to use and apply all of them. That’s why, I’ll be making a really long list
of everything and choosing what to use for the next school year.
For this week, we
were required to create an exercise, but since I have used most of the
mentioned tools, I decided to share a form that I created for my final project.
What I have done is create a questionnaire where I would be able to evaluate
each participant’s technology skills and then be able to place them into groups
based on their skills. The idea is to have an expert in every group who can
support each member while working on the WebQuest which requires the use and
integration of web tools.
This is a very
busy week for us all as we are all working on our final project drafts which
are to be handed in to our peer for assessment. It takes so much time and
effort to complete the whole form and I’m sure it will need more work after the
process of peer assessment is over as I will be getting a different perspective
on my work.
I would like to
wish myself and all of my fellow classmates the best of luck with the first
step towards the final project.
Nahla
