In this class I was introduced to many tools and learned how to organize them mentally and electronically. Delicious is extremely helpful to me because now I can access and organize the websites that I use or plan to read. iGoogle and rss feeds are a great way to keep up with educational news and blogs. I also keep up with recent educational news in Twitter with education week and Governor Paul Ryan. Blogs and wikis have proven to be another great way to communicate, creating opportunities to share ideas with others in class. We've hardly had to use the discussion forum at D2L at all! Voicethreads and OneTrueMedia are also great ways to collaborate and I'm using it with my Spanish class to present their work. Websprieation can be used to access background knowledge or organize concepts to review a unit. These tools make me excited to be a teacher because, even though teachers are experiencing political poverty today in Wisconsin, technologically we are very wealthy!
There are even more tools to explore, and I feel that I have more organizing to do. Learning about these tools will improve my teaching because now I can create lessons that are more motivating and relevant to my students. These tools will also help to improve the ELL program at my school because I plan to use Survey Monkey to find out the needs of teachers, students and families at my school. I also would like to use a wiki for teachers to collaboratively share their successful and stressful experiences in working with ELLs.
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