Monday, September 21, 2009

Twitter:
Today we also made twitter accounts and started to use them. I think twitter is a great tool that could be used in a classroom environment, students and teachers could communicate via twitter. I think there are a few limitations or problems with twitter in terms of security and keeping students safe, also I think that students using twitter could get distracted when on twitter and become off task. It is similar to face book in some ways that it allows you to talk to friends and write updates and notifications and personally I find it hard to concentrate when in class and face book is on, so this may be a problem with using twitter as well. I like the idea about teacher and parent communications for parents who cant come into the classroom and talk to the teacher face to face.
I think that visually twitter is a useful tool for keeping students involved and helps students in becoming part of our technological society.

I think that I may see myself using twitter in my classroom once I have spent some more time getting used to it.
Good presentation
Thanks :)



This is my scratch

Scratch



Scratch is like a comic type application, we made animations and use features of scratch to make characters in the pictures move. I liked using this application though like the 2 students presenting I think personally I would find it hard to implement this in a classroom.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Today we looked at Google Docs, I got so many great ideas from this presentation.
Google Docs is a place online where you can invite people to share your documents rather than having to send through microsofy word. This was great as Simon and Miriam showed us how we could edit and change aspects of the documents online and press save and it would change the document for everyone, and many people at different times can edit the documents.
This is a great tool that I can see myself using in my classroom for homework and communicating with parents and students.
Great presentation great innovation :)

My Bitstrips comic :)