This week for learned how to use Picasa and worked on WebQuests. Picasa is a program by Google that allows images to be placed together with voice recordings and music. The records can be used to describe the images. This assignment displayed the importance of citing work. All of the images and music used for the Picasa video needed to be cited. Plagiarism is a terrible mistake to make, especially when it is easy to do with content shared over the internet. As a future educator, I would use Picasa to create brief introductions to lessons. I could play the videos at the beginning of class in order to start getting students familiar with the content of the lesson. In a social studies classroom, Picasa could be used to cover the events leading up to the specific lesson to be taught and shown as described before a lesson. WebQuests on lessons based around a webpage that provides students with a problem and instructs the students on where to look on the internet in order to solve the problem. I created a WebQuest concerning the societal philosophies of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The end result would be an essay including a summary of both of their philosophies along with a comparison of them. I would use a WebQuest in my classroom to help students develop research skills. As a social studies teacher, I would use WebQuest to lead my students through activities to find information concerning important historical figures and their contributions to history. We also learned about chapter five of the textbook this week. The chapter discussed more Web 2.0 tools that teachers can use to educator themselves and students.
Standards met this week:
Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Commitment to Ethics
Commitment to Social Justice
Commitment to Professional Competence and Ongoing Professional Development
This week for learned how to use Picasa and worked on WebQuests. Picasa is a program by Google that allows images to be placed together with voice recordings and music. The records can be used to describe the images. This assignment displayed the importance of citing work. All of the images and music used for the Picasa video needed to be cited. Plagiarism is a terrible mistake to make, especially when it is easy to do with content shared over the internet. As a future educator, I would use Picasa to create brief introductions to lessons. I could play the videos at the beginning of class in order to start getting students familiar with the content of the lesson. In a social studies classroom, Picasa could be used to cover the events leading up to the specific lesson to be taught and shown as described before a lesson. WebQuests on lessons based around a webpage that provides students with a problem and instructs the students on where to look on the internet in order to solve the problem. I created a WebQuest concerning the societal philosophies of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The end result would be an essay including a summary of both of their philosophies along with a comparison of them. I would use a WebQuest in my classroom to help students develop research skills. As a social studies teacher, I would use WebQuest to lead my students through activities to find information concerning important historical figures and their contributions to history. We also learned about chapter five of the textbook this week. The chapter discussed more Web 2.0 tools that teachers can use to educator themselves and students.
Standards met this week: