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- The use of technology is nearly inevitable in our era. Firstly, technology indeed opens a lot of doors for the world of education. Videos, white boards, educational apps on tablets are only a few examples of the many opportunities which can improve or even make the lessons more relevant for the learners. Secondly, the school is supposed to equip the learners for the future world. Therefore, teachers should not only use technology when preparing or presenting lessons but rather incorporate technology in such a way that the learners are using it themselves. However, incorporating technology is not as easy for everybody, hence this blog might be helpful for that purpose.
Kelly Walsh, the author of this blog, publishes every week about a relevant topic she is doing research about. If you have specific educational questions, you can also contact her directly. Nevertheless under "posts by category" are a large number of posts, sorted by topic and hence easy to find. In addition, in order to provide even more easily accessible information, Walsh also has a couple of short video tutorials.
Even if you are a "techi", this blog still might interest you since it keeps you up to date with the latest findings and accomplishments around technology in classrooms.
This is a great blog with lots of valuable sites for teachers use! I teach in New Zealand and use many of the sites that are in this blog but several posts brought me attention to new and exciting ideas that I can use in the classroom!
ReplyDeleteHere is one site that I love to use in my classrooms both by using ready to use story maps or creating my own story maps. Even better still the students can create their own story maps.
This is just one example of a story map that is been made and ready to use. There are thousands on various topics to look at and use!
http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/feedingtheworld/
This is the one I made on global patterns of earthquakes
http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=34d914b94ec444ad8a0aa5ddd53224c6
Thanks,
Andrew
Thank you very much Andrew for your input. I am glad that some of my posts could inspire you.
ReplyDeleteThe story map also looks like an effective way, to keep learners constructively engaged with the internet.
HI Bianca,
ReplyDeleteI find your blog very interesting. i am a young lecture and really did enjoy some of the ideas which are posted on your blog, and will most certainly use them in my class room.
Regards
Ray
Hi Bianca,
ReplyDeletecheck out this site www.freetech4teachers.com, this site gives some cool ideas on how to make use of some technology while teaching.
Cheers
Ray
Hi Ray,
ReplyDelete"Free technology for teachers" is a very popular Blog when it comes to technological queries. The author of this blog, Richard Byrne is a former teacher and has hence first hand experience. Furthermore, the blog offers not only a wide variety of free information and resources, but it also focuses on the legal aspect of each of these sources, definitely worthwhile to consult.
Thank you for very much for sharing Ray.