Hi friends!
Simple English Wikipedia:
Avraham mentioned this earlier but I must have missed it. This site can truly be used as a great tool in our classrooms. Even though teachers tend to discourage the use of wikipedia...students more often than not turn to it as a source of first reference. Therefore, I think that teachers can use the simple english wikipedia to their advantage - helping students to research themselves and actually understand what they are reading!
Suggestion: why not get students to make their own wikipedia entry on something learned in class?!
NoodleTools:
Awesome! Not only is this a great tool for teacher to introduce to their students, but its a great website in general to use. It's almost ingenious. How many time have you simple done a google search which has resulted in thousands of results that are not relevant or in the direction that you are researching?! NoodleTools allows you to, from the beginning, refine your search - this in essence is a huge time saver.
On another note, this week I was exposed to a great website called edpuzzle. Basically, what it does is allows you to take a video and input questions that will appear at different intervals automatically. Using it in the classroom would require the teacher to complete the preparation before hand; once in the classroom, all that is require is the press play. Pretty cool! It can also be used as a great homework tool. Teachers can send students a link to a video they have made and students can answer the questions on the website. The teacher is able to access results at the end also.
Here is the link...check it out! http://www.edpuzzle.com/home
Thats all for this week, until next time...have a good one! :)
Friday, May 23, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Week7
Heya!
This week while prowling my blogs I found an interesting entry on paper blogging. This immediately caught my eye since many classrooms in Israel are yet to have internet access and many teachers are still apprehensive to use / integrate the internet into their classroom.
Paper blogging is exactly what it sounds like, blogging on paper. Blogging gives students a platform is express themselves and share their voice in writing. Even though not online, paper blogging still enables students to read and comment on their peers blogs.
An idea for a high school classroom: Ask the students to create their own paper blog, getting them to respond to a hot topic discussed in class. One written, the students will hang their blogs on the display boards around the room. Then the first 10 minutes of the next class, students will have the opportunity to read their peers work and then respond. They respond by writing a response on post-it note and physically sticking it to the blog. This is an idea that can continue through the year, the first few minutes of every class, giving a real opportunity for conversations to happen on paper.
Blogging is a great way to hear the students thoughts, especially those that they are afraid to say out loud in class. The paper blogging alternative is a unique way to practice and encourage writing, whilst introducing students to the blogging world.
Thats all for now, so until next time...have a good one!
This week while prowling my blogs I found an interesting entry on paper blogging. This immediately caught my eye since many classrooms in Israel are yet to have internet access and many teachers are still apprehensive to use / integrate the internet into their classroom.
Paper blogging is exactly what it sounds like, blogging on paper. Blogging gives students a platform is express themselves and share their voice in writing. Even though not online, paper blogging still enables students to read and comment on their peers blogs.
An idea for a high school classroom: Ask the students to create their own paper blog, getting them to respond to a hot topic discussed in class. One written, the students will hang their blogs on the display boards around the room. Then the first 10 minutes of the next class, students will have the opportunity to read their peers work and then respond. They respond by writing a response on post-it note and physically sticking it to the blog. This is an idea that can continue through the year, the first few minutes of every class, giving a real opportunity for conversations to happen on paper.
Blogging is a great way to hear the students thoughts, especially those that they are afraid to say out loud in class. The paper blogging alternative is a unique way to practice and encourage writing, whilst introducing students to the blogging world.
Thats all for now, so until next time...have a good one!
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