Link to Prezi Presentation 


https://prezi.com/view/Bo3J0x57k3jYSwvJz1k7/

Week 12
Glogster allows users to create an interactive online poster called glogs by adding images, videos, audio and text.  Glogster helps students build knowledge by allowing them to create their own meaning of the content and displaying it to others.  Teachers are drawn to glogster because it can be applied to any content area particularly in ELA. For example, you can easily add text and a rubric that students can see.  You can also create a glog that includes all the assignment information for the students to access.  Glogster can also promote collaboration and higher-level thinking by engaging students to address their needs regardless of their levels and allowing you to differentiate assignments.  It also allows students to express themselves in an artistic way and encourages collaboration amongst students to help each other.  

Link to glogster:

https://edu.glogster.com/glog/hb/343tf0md1jc

Week 11 Assignment #1

The article “Using VoiceThread to Promote Learning Engagement and Success for All Students,’’ examines how VoiceThread has created opportunities for teachers to discover new methods for teaching and new ways for students to show their understanding of the material.  The article focuses on explaining VoiceThread and how it can be used in all grades and subjects.  It also concentrated on three students’ profiles and how it helped those students, all who have different learning styles and needs.  It showed that VoiceThread allows students to practice listening and speaking and provides the teacher the ability to hear every student.  It also gives students the ability to hear themselves speak which can lead to better articulation.  VoiceThread also allows you to integrate several media such as pictures, audio, video and text to improve and support language.  It can also be used to support students with learning disabilities and special education services by encouraging participation, they can work at their own pace independently and gradually provide information rather than all at once.  VoiceThread can help create a positive learning environment for students that are beneficial to their individual learning style and support them in their success.

Week 10

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13bOcAXvAshvMoX5-UOq6XPtpmReJcSTm

Week 9 assignment #1

New literacies that evolved from new technologies including text-messaging, blogging, social networking etc. has changed our communication skills not just with students but adults as well.  Blogging is one form of interaction that can be beneficial for developing conventional and new literacy skills.  Blogging can be a good way for teaching and learning literacy because it can be used in all subject areas and it showcases our creativity.  According to the article “The Impact of Using Blogs on College Students Reading Comprehension and Learning Motivation”, the results of the study conducted did not support that using blogs enhanced new literacies, but it did have a positive effect on the way students interact with each other.  The article also touch basis on how important it was for not only students but adults as well to learn these new technologies in order to be successful now and in the future with our changing technologies.

Week 7 Assignment #2

Second life can be incorporated in ELA instruction to enhance the curriculum by identifying and describing the new literacy skills that players of virtual worlds engage in during their interactions.  New literacies skills such as collaborating, problem solving, creating information, reading multimodal texts etc., are all implemented in new digital media.  Every child is unique, and every student does not learn the same way, therefore there should be more than one modality for kids to learn in a lesson.  SL brings the lesson alive; students talk about their learning (think, pair, share), they can create visual representations and make use of new media.

Week 7 Assignment #1

Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education

Multimodal learning is teaching concepts using multiple channels of information that communicates in some type of way to learners.  Some examples are pictures, audio, music, colors etc. The article “Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms” focus on how teachers can utilize multimodal texts to create new roles for the student as well as the teacher.  Multimodal learning in early childhood education, can help support early learning experiences and create opportunities for real expression and in the quality of education programs.  Students can engage themselves and take control of their own learning journey by the different modes of expression.  By integrating multimodal practices in early childhood years creates an approach in different learning styles. Interests, and abilities of each child.

Second Life

Second Life is an internet based virtual world where people interact through avatars and engage in a variety of activities.  In the article “Using the ADDIE Model to Design Second Life Activities for Online Learners” emphasis on how educators can use instructional design standards to strengthen second life learning.  The article also emphasis on the use of ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) to help the instructor create learning tasks and to make sure that second life operates as a method in teaching and learning.  Instructors should study how second life activities connects to the course and what a second life user can do in the virtual world.

Week 6 Assignment 2.2

With Edmodo, teachers can give manage all their activities in one place.  They can give assignments, quizzes and surveys to students.  Educators can browse through a wide range of content connected to a specific topic.  They can also monitor students and give awards for their accomplishments.  Teachers can essentially bring the classroom online; they can connect with one another by sharing ideas, problems and helpful tips.  Edmodo essentially takes the ideas of social network and enhances them and makes it appropriate for the classroom.