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Good storyboards are more than pretty pictures. It is better than a written instruction. It will help you succeed; because it helps your audience visualize your ideas. Supports communication, and is helping people who do not know or who have their own conflicting idea to visualize the impact of one key thought. They used in the film industry, commercials, animation, business presentations and in education. Storyboard art is a service business today; experienced illustrators can create a variety of professional materials for your business to succeed.
In education it helps you plan what is the instruction will look like when it is completed, what your students need to do in order to learn. Storyboarding is a popular management tool to facilitate creative thinking. Students may illustrate major events in a story through sequential pictures. Storyboards used as a pre-writing activity or to review a story.
As an educator, I use storyboards to get my students to focus, to think, to be creative and more productive. They provide the visual part of the communication and support my instruction. Powerful tools for learning and organizing through pictures or diagrams. With a little creativity, I can create my own materials. Very helpful in teaching today’s diverse population of students when verbal instruction is not enough. It also helps students to recall and express their experiences. Students may identify points in the process where more research information and definition is needed.
Research would be useful on how the students can imagine the results of their decisions and how it can help them choose their priorities that will lead them to the development of the final solution.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wikis in Education
http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education
A Wiki is like a combination of a Web site and a Word document. It allows any visitor to easily contribute to and edit that web site using only their Internet browser. Very easy to use, you can view it, like any other webpage and it does not require any access privilege. Groups can work collaboratively on the content and use only one web browser. You can also keep track of the history of a document after revision. When a person edit a Wiki page, a new version of the document become the current page, but the previous files could be viewed or compared to the current version. The article describes how to use wikis in education and how it can be implemented in the curriculum. It also provides links to a variety of courses using Wiki and web site links to Wiki tools.
Wikis offer educators an opportunity to create a different type of web resource in which both teacher and the student group can have active roles both contributors and editors. They are flexible and we can create any site structure. Ideal for collaborative writing applications. Enables web publishing without use of special web development tools. Disadvantages of Wikis is that it offers easy and open access to editing a website, so page edits has to be closely monitored. Still, wiki can offer students and educators a more active relationship with web-based materials.
I believe that Wikis are very useful in creating quality material that benefits educators’ worldwide. With Curriculum Wikis, educators can share materials and collaborate on the essential learning. Students can create their own place to post projects, assignments and can invite each other to their wiki space to study, collaborate, review or complete a project.
Further research on how to use Wikis for knowledge construction, for critical thinking, like group problem solving and for virtual team activities would be very useful for using this tool in modern education more and more frequently in the future.
A Wiki is like a combination of a Web site and a Word document. It allows any visitor to easily contribute to and edit that web site using only their Internet browser. Very easy to use, you can view it, like any other webpage and it does not require any access privilege. Groups can work collaboratively on the content and use only one web browser. You can also keep track of the history of a document after revision. When a person edit a Wiki page, a new version of the document become the current page, but the previous files could be viewed or compared to the current version. The article describes how to use wikis in education and how it can be implemented in the curriculum. It also provides links to a variety of courses using Wiki and web site links to Wiki tools.
Wikis offer educators an opportunity to create a different type of web resource in which both teacher and the student group can have active roles both contributors and editors. They are flexible and we can create any site structure. Ideal for collaborative writing applications. Enables web publishing without use of special web development tools. Disadvantages of Wikis is that it offers easy and open access to editing a website, so page edits has to be closely monitored. Still, wiki can offer students and educators a more active relationship with web-based materials.
I believe that Wikis are very useful in creating quality material that benefits educators’ worldwide. With Curriculum Wikis, educators can share materials and collaborate on the essential learning. Students can create their own place to post projects, assignments and can invite each other to their wiki space to study, collaborate, review or complete a project.
Further research on how to use Wikis for knowledge construction, for critical thinking, like group problem solving and for virtual team activities would be very useful for using this tool in modern education more and more frequently in the future.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Blogging in Education
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml
This article talks about Blogging-or Web logging as a new teaching tool used not only in the middle or high school, but in the elementary classrooms. I was very interested to read about how students as young as kindergarten now blog in a variety of new, exciting ways, since I will be an elementary teacher. It provides information how elementary blogging works, what topics elementary students cover in their blogs, software and tools to consider and very important safety tips to get started.
New technologies are changing education. Blogs are beneficial as a new learning tool; it can encourage writing, journalism, and improve communication skills. Educators know that students write better when they have a real audience and with the use if the Internet students can write to a real audience.
I believe in the educational benefits of online access. It has the potential to be transformational technology for teaching and learning. The opportunities for communication and self-expression to Internet provides are bringing benefits to everyone-especially children. Blogging is an exciting and doable activity even in the elementary grades. We have to admit, there are risks involved with letting kids online. We have to educate students and parents about blogs and how they should and should not be used.
Blogging has become firmly established as a web based communications tool. It used to be a medium for the publication of simple, online personal diaries and now has the capacity to engage people in collaborative activity, knowledge sharing and reflection. Further research could be to explore the potential of blogs as learning spaces, explore methods of using blogs for educational purposes.
This article talks about Blogging-or Web logging as a new teaching tool used not only in the middle or high school, but in the elementary classrooms. I was very interested to read about how students as young as kindergarten now blog in a variety of new, exciting ways, since I will be an elementary teacher. It provides information how elementary blogging works, what topics elementary students cover in their blogs, software and tools to consider and very important safety tips to get started.
New technologies are changing education. Blogs are beneficial as a new learning tool; it can encourage writing, journalism, and improve communication skills. Educators know that students write better when they have a real audience and with the use if the Internet students can write to a real audience.
I believe in the educational benefits of online access. It has the potential to be transformational technology for teaching and learning. The opportunities for communication and self-expression to Internet provides are bringing benefits to everyone-especially children. Blogging is an exciting and doable activity even in the elementary grades. We have to admit, there are risks involved with letting kids online. We have to educate students and parents about blogs and how they should and should not be used.
Blogging has become firmly established as a web based communications tool. It used to be a medium for the publication of simple, online personal diaries and now has the capacity to engage people in collaborative activity, knowledge sharing and reflection. Further research could be to explore the potential of blogs as learning spaces, explore methods of using blogs for educational purposes.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Virtual Field Trip
http://surfaquarium.com/IT/vftguide.htm
The article gives guidelines to plan a great virtual fieldtrip that provides new learning experience to your students. It requires just as much careful planning, structure and supervision as a traditional fieldtrip and has to be included within your existing curriculum. The article includes a nice list of useful ideas of how to prepare your students and your classroom as well as highlights common mistakes made when planning a virtual field trip.
Technical revolution has brought us new possibilities in education. Virtual field trip is a structured online experience. A great model of a teaching strategy that was not possible before the advent of computers. It benefits students, teachers, families, schools and communities.
I believe that teachers are lifelong learners and virtual fieldtrips open new possibilities to both teaching and learning. It provides information about areas that students are unable to visit as a class and helps them to appreciate cultures other than their own. It is very important to make the experience interesting to raise it above the everyday classroom learning routine. The list includes great ideas to do that, like create treasure hunt checklist.
Further research would be interesting on combining media to simulate real-life environments and experiences to practice skills that would be too expensive, difficult or dangerous to practice in real life.
The article gives guidelines to plan a great virtual fieldtrip that provides new learning experience to your students. It requires just as much careful planning, structure and supervision as a traditional fieldtrip and has to be included within your existing curriculum. The article includes a nice list of useful ideas of how to prepare your students and your classroom as well as highlights common mistakes made when planning a virtual field trip.
Technical revolution has brought us new possibilities in education. Virtual field trip is a structured online experience. A great model of a teaching strategy that was not possible before the advent of computers. It benefits students, teachers, families, schools and communities.
I believe that teachers are lifelong learners and virtual fieldtrips open new possibilities to both teaching and learning. It provides information about areas that students are unable to visit as a class and helps them to appreciate cultures other than their own. It is very important to make the experience interesting to raise it above the everyday classroom learning routine. The list includes great ideas to do that, like create treasure hunt checklist.
Further research would be interesting on combining media to simulate real-life environments and experiences to practice skills that would be too expensive, difficult or dangerous to practice in real life.
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