Jeopardy ppt

A powerpoint presentation of Jeopardy was shared with the BPC class by Jaclyn and it was great...

http://angel.baypath.edu/AngelUploads/Content/SPE542Z1-201002/_assoc/FAC9559E7668DF119535005056855A04/jeopardy.ppt#289,3, With

Powerpoints...

I love doing powerpoints it helps me organize my information and be able to do an "oversee" of what information I am trying to convey to my audience. I think for those students who are visual learners a power point could help, if it is done in a manner that catches their attention and is not to 'wordy' or overpowering. Powerpoints could have both positive and negative benefits to education, as I stated it could be an aid for those visual learners and it could also help to just highlight the most important items in a subject matter. However, it could have a negative effect if the powerpoint is too overly broad, doesn't necessarily highlight the important information or is too 'wordy'. Overall if done in a 'fun' manner for students it would be a benefit.. This is a website that I found which was very informative and showed alot of different ideas and tips, http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/classrooms/Classroom_Presentations_and_Lesson_Plans.htm and this article, http://classroom-audio-visual.suite101.com/article.cfm/power_point_presentations_in_the_class_room shows the difference between the proper use and the improper use of visual technology. One statement that was made in the article, which I thought was very interesting was, "Too often, the power point becomes a poor substitute for instructing. In many ways, the power point has replaced the endless mimeographs and later worksheets duplicated on Xerox machines. Yet the results are often the same: instruction is depersonalized and student interaction is limited."

Teachers have to make sure that if they are using a powerpoint that it is as an aid and help as a tool to enhance the curriculum and not to mainly teach all of the curriculum.

What are the purposes of the assessments?

MS Word - Discussion

In my limited technology experience, the only word processing software I have used is WordPerfect and MicroSoft Word, so for me I would have to agree that it is a valuable educational tool, just based on my use of this software. I try to integrate this software into my writing class, by picking three students a week to use the computer to draft and finalize their work. This helps a student to get away from their desk and learn something new, I found a few kids even thought of better ideas as they were typing instead of writing what they were thinking. However, I have two opinions on whether it hinders a students editing work. I think it is a great tool to show a student that either a word is spelled wrong or their grammar is incorrect, however, the idea that MS will spell it for them is somewhat of a hinderance. I personally prefer students to use a dictionary and look up the word so they can have it in memory instead of letting the computer do the work for them.

Jing...

I could see this tool being used in a classroom, especially as so many children are visual learners, I think it could be beneficial for them. It could help students to 'walk through' a subject or description of something that they would otherwise have difficulty trying to understand with just reading or being taught.

Podcasts...

I had a little difficulty opening the Willow Web, but once I did I was amazed at how interesting it was. My sons would really enjoy this and since they are more visual learners, they would benefit greatly from this type of podcast. As for the Education podcast service, I found that a little 'busy' I like user friendly and easy to navigate sites, although there was alot of information and was sectioned into the different categories, I found that no matter what I clicked on, I had to keep going to find exactly what it was I was looking for. ITunes is something I used to be more familiar with, unfortunately I hadn't been on Itunes in a while but yet I was able to manuever around the site in order to still be able to find what I was looking for. I never looked through the podcasts before, as I mainly went to Itunes to download some music. I was amazed at how much information was there, wow how technology has changed in just a few short years. While I was researching on podcasts I came across an article that was very interesting, as I was not very familiar with the podcasts prior to this class. http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/

Favorite and Least Favorite Web tools

Well to begin, I just recently started a FB account, I have been able to find old friends and school mates and are enjoying keeping in touch with them. Facebook could play a role in the classroom, if a FB account is set up as a whole classroom participation and has tabs for upcoming homework, projects, save the dates, sport, and many other valuable things that parents to keep track of. It may also be helpful for those students who are stuck on homework or forgot something, because maybe a classmate can help them, it may help in forming unity as a class and everyone can talk to the other, although strict monitoring is definitely recommended. As a parent I would enjoy having regular Tweets about my children and the class in general. However, at some point it may become burdensome for teachers to find the extra time to Tweet, however I know many teachers have a student of the week, and one of their jobs/responsiblities could be to make sure one Tweet a day is done and completed for parents. The Library Thing could be useful if you have to organize books or items and Flickr could be useful in trying to manage photos of the students and their time during the day, however this does come to an important issue and that is recommendation to photograph and the permission of the parents and school of distributing any photos online. Classroom Learing 2.0 http://ctapcl2.blogspot.com/ this site had some great ideas, tips and websites to visit in order to follow all types of organizational tools.