Enriching Technology
I was in the brainstorming group, coming up with ideas how to incorporate technology in our classrooms.
I remember in grade 9 doing a project on Canada's national park, where we had to choose one of the national park and research about it. I thought this project was really boring and pointless because it was one of those typical project where you research and put it on a bristol board and make it look nice. To make that project more fun and technology invovled:
For research, we can use Diigo to do our research which will help organize important points and put reminders if need with a sticky note.
When you are gathering the information, you can use Google docs, share it with your partner and less time taken away from sending back and forth information.
Make the presentation on the Prezi to show the important informations, their special recreation/place, and some photos that will attract/interest people to actually go. Since prezi has the function of zooming into one point to another I think it will attract the audience, able to send our your message through clearly and can do a really simple and effective presentation.
Idea: Project done with technology
Subject area: Geography class
Pros: - Less time spending on cutting papers and putting on bristol boards.
- People who aren't good with arts don't have to suffer from doing all of the cutting and pasting, able to make good finished product on the computer.
- No more typical make bristol board and put information on it
- Bring on technology into the classroom
- No paper being wasted, usually people just throw out their projects after
- People will pay attention to the presentations
Cons: - Must need interent to access all of these informations
- Need accounts for Diigo and Google docs
- We don't have a good computer that will run smoothly : (
What Needs to Happen to Make the Idea Work – Who is Responsible
- IDC student collaborates with the teacher
- Train the students how to use the netbooks
- Train teachers and students how to use the web tools
Labels: diigo, Google docs, netbooks, prezi, Technology in classroom
posted by jinaLee @ 1:42 AM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Your idea is great and very similar to mine! The idea is very realistic as we do have the netbooks, but just have to get them to the right classes. Most students and teachers have the skills to operate the webtools- if not the skills to figure them out. The others who are not very good with technology, I am sure other students or even IDC Students would not mind helping them out. Your idea would not take very long to implement as we do have the netbooks ready. As far as enriching the students' learning, the students would be more engaged, hence work harder for the projects. They will also develop computer skills, and students who are not very creative on paper, will get to show off how creative they can be using technology. Concepts would be more clear and the technology would make the project more efficient. Also, the Prezi presentation would allow students listening to the presentation to be more engaged and attentive.
Your idea is worth pursuing, and I can see it being implemented in the Geography class within 3 months!
JINA!!!! Your idea is very good. the idea is realistic because we do have netbooks at our disposal. So creating presentations instead o cutting and making bristol board presentations is a very good idea and I recommend it. You incorporated notetaking into the porject by using Diigo, then you used google docs to send information to your partners and you finish off the presentation with Prezi. You included the best 3 best and easiest programs to use that will keep your viewers interested.
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