Sunday, February 9, 2014

C4T#1

In the first blog post I commented on for Eva Buyuksimkesyan, she shared many learning tools she had found online and they seemed like they would be very effective. Among these tools are: Buncee, Todaysmeet, Blendspace, Journal Jar, and Padlet. Buncee can be used for making lessons or students can use it make projects. Todaysmeet is a sort of chatroom where you can share ideas with your students and asks questions and have them answer the questions before class time. Blendspace is a content creation tool where you can make powerpoints or pdf files and they can be easily shared or printed. Journal Jar is a tool that gives random topics for writing or for presenting an impromptu speech. Padlet is an online idea board where you can post ideas on virtual sticky notes and you can print them all out on one page. I find all of these tools very interesting and in my comment I told the teacher that I look forward to using them when I become a teacher.

In Eva's second blog post, she talks about the time she was working on narrative tenses and writing a story with her class. She told them what needed to be done but some students were having problems writing their paragraphs. So she divided them into groups and the students who understood the assignment were able to help those who didn't. She switched the groups up a few more times and then sent them back to their desks and the ones who weren't able to make the paragraphs the first time were able to successfully do the assignment. I think this technique is very helpful because peer learning is a big part of how students learn. When students help other students, it helps them learn on a whole different level from when students get help from their teachers. This post was very interesting, although I did have some trouble understanding her speech or writing in a few places. Other than that, I enjoyed reading Mrs. Eva's blog posts.

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