Bitstrips

Today we looked at Bitstrips.
It was great, I found it very educational and it is something I will consider using when I become a teacher.
I liked how it gives the students an opportunity to create characters and comic strips, and it can be used in a number of learning areas. It is an active hands on approach to learning and we were able to see you tube videos of students using the program and they really enjoyed it.
I can see a class using it and having lots of fun creating different characters.
In terms of the technology it was easy to use and easy to explain how to use, and it can be simplified (just getting them to make one slide) or made harder (making 2 or 3 or 4 slides)
The presentation was great and the group presenting did a fabulous job.
This is something that we use everyday in a similar program of Facebook, and this program is one children can enjoy to.
Bye for now
Caris

wiki's

This week we looked at wiki's
I haven't really had much of a look at Wiki's before so this lesson was great as it gave me a chance to learn about them.

Wiki pages are pretty similar to blogs like what im doing here.
They are a source for sharing information about topics and they can be made by anyone so dont always believe everything you read :)


Wiki's are able to be written collaboratively. Today we looked at our Wiki pages for our innovation for our assessment, and we were contribute our wiki page with our partners.

We also created an inspiration document - which outlined features and characteristics of blogs, wikis, webquests.
Bye for now
Caris

This is my very first blog, I think this is going to be a great experience and will be a great way to reflect on things that I have been learning in the unit. It is a good outlet for others to read about my views and opinions.
I am looking forward to getting some feedback
Thanks Caris