Monday, April 23, 2012

This is my Diigo Library list http://www.diigo.com/user/jzap71023?type=all The way that I could use Diigo as a student in my University of Indianapolis coursework is when I have something that I have to read for a class and need to remember the important parts that I read, I can highlight those parts directly on the page, and save it. Then, seeing as I can also have Diigo on my phone, if I forget what it was, I can look it up on my phone to help me remember. As a teacher, this would be useful in helping remember the important parts of an online book, which would be cheaper than having to get a huge book to carry around. This would make my classroom more technologically friendly and easier to use in the classroom.
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This is a Google presentation that I created. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZAuLbYhou8jeFN7K4kZR9SNGvA8QNjoigcaqxslP4Xk/edit During the creation of this presentation, I noticed how similar it was to making a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. The thing about this that is better than PowerPoint is that it is free, as well as that it was very easy to use. Two ways that this could be used in the education field is by making a presentation to present new information to a classroom, or by using it to assign a classroom to a presentation using this rather than PowerPoint.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

"> For our group's project, we decided to focus on a freshman algebra class. We found a picture of a chalkboard and set as the background. By using the doodle function on VoiceThread, the teacher could present the information, as well as work out math problems, in a creative way that would keep the students attention. At first, the problems would need to be very basic so that the students wouldn't have any problem becoming familiar with Voicethread, and then gradually make the problems harder so that the students are getting the most out of the lesson. I think it would be difficult for students to use many features on computers for math class, but I do think that Voicethread has many features that would be helpful for students. We used this standard in our project: 7. Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.