Thursday, March 7, 2013

Few features of technology that I've learned from EDCI 505

What I've learned so far regarding technology and education:

GlogsterEDU

This was definitely something new I've learned, that was surprisingly useful for visual projects. This application lets users create interactive posters with text, links, videos, pictures, and etc. I strongly believe in the power of visual media to education, and this would definitely grab students' attentions. I could think of many ways to incorporate this into future classrooms, like projects and assignments. It's a great way for both teachers and students can have fun while learning.

SymbalooEDU

This is a site that allows people to organize useful websites, blog RSS feeds and medias. I think teachers can use this to share great resources with students, not just teachers to students but from students to students as well!

GoogleDocs

I've seen my sister used this a lot when she's working with her school projects, but I've never worked with googledocs before, so this was definitely something new I've learned from this class. Google Docs were incredibly useful to my surprise. For example, we can use a spreadsheet to create a grade book and it lets us calculate all the grades for us as well as creating quiz and etc. I especially like to use this as gradebook in the future because it also lets us organize all the grades into graphs.