Comics in the Classroom

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I used the App Make beliefs comix App. I thought it was very easy to navigate and understand. The important thing I liked about it was that it was free and gave you a bunch of options to really make your personal comic come to life. The only thing you might want to consider before using the comix app, is that if you want to use more then 4 slides to put a comic together you have to pay $1.99 for the upgrade, it also gives you a few more features, such as more character and background options.  If you are a first time user to this website you may use this following tutorial for help if you need it. I feel after watching the video that people will be able to navigate the app with no problem and won’t struggle to find any tool to make his or her comic strip come to life.

 

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I used the Comic strip of Abraham Lincoln, who was teaching students why History is important and how students need to know why you should forget History in fear of repeating the past. I comic shows different personalty through the short skit, showing that one student does not like history but after the teacher shows them how important it is his attitude changes. I think educational comics is a great piece of technology, to help students grow with a lesson in a way of just not listening to the teacher but creating his or her own lesson and showing personality traits as the lesson progresses through the comic. I do think that not only does this app give the teacher a different teaching method, but it can also tell how students think in different ways through  this type of learning process.

 

week 3 Blog Reflection: The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – So Far

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I found this article by Larry Ferlazzo’s that tells about him wanting to help students with Ell,ESL,EFL through videos that help explain the English language to people who struggle with it. He talks about ways to help promote helping students that need help through getting parents engagement through after school activities and clubs. What I found most interesting about this article and doing more research is how many students who actually struggle with the English language in the classroom. I found this video called teeth, which helps motivate students with a English deficiency through humor. Ferlazzo’s states that one way I reinforce new vocabulary and a way to help teachers see some growth in the classroom is by playing sound effects and letting the people listen to the words they have already learned in a repeating motion, so it gives them some stability with that word. These types of videos let students grow as learners in areas that they really struggle in and different methods through the video will help like stopping it in spots and restarting to it so the students can pronounce what they are saying and what the meaning is and how it corresponds  to the lesson.

 

What I found most interesting about this website is how Mr. Ferlazzo’s wanted to help people that had a disability and wanted to make a change to his or her life for the better. This website is completely free with the videos that he posts. I found when you get on this website that all the information about Ell,ESL, EFL and helping people with language disability’s is laid out right in front of you to read and understand the information that Ferlazzo’s is trying to get across. The only bad concern I would have about this website is that they list all the videos sites one after another making it a little confusing for someone who is knew to the site. If you would like to learn more on Ell,ESL I found this video that can give the reader of this blog a clear understanding of how some of these language problems really affects students.

 

Word Clouds in the Classroom

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I choose the Word Clouds app, I thought it was an interesting app that a teacher can give a topic to the students and they can search this app and find useful words to connect people places and events during the event of the students choosing. I choose a topic on the French Revolution, I thought this Word Cloud shows some use words that describe the Revolution.  This app was created by  ABCya.com and is free for a limited time. Word Clouds by ABCya.com is an easy to use app to create and share beautiful word clouds. A word cloud is a representation of word frequency and there are many practical applications for word clouds, a common use is different sizes of txt to make the words. Millions of students have used this website and now it can be used on the Ipad. I thought this app was very beneficial, when I wanted to add words and it would put them into different colors and different sizes for the theme that I was using. I did find the App difficult at first to navigate the words into the right place without running them together, although after working with the app for a little while I started to understand how it works. If you are a first time person using the is app and is having trouble understanding how it works you can use this tutorial for any additional help. I recommend this apps to anyone who wants to choose topics for an educational purpose such  educators in a classroom or people just wanting to give a presentation about a topic with words relating to that topics with different highlighted colors to show off the words.

Week 2 Reflection: iPads in Education

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This week I choose to talk about Ipads in Education this is an article written by Sam Gliksman. This article talks about how mobile devices are dramatically changing the way a teacher operate  his or her lesson in the classroom. Networks such as the Ning network was created to explore ways iPads and other devices could be used to re-imagine the process the process of education and re kindle students process to learn with new technology. Technology is always growing and students need to learn  some of the new technology that is offered by the Ipad and that students  would be able to understand, this includes  Apple T.V, I movie and access to many free educational apps, and many other tools  that the Ipad offers. I thought that this article gives some good ideas on what the Ipad can offer students from an educational standpoint and gives good feedback on how to use the Ipad apps. If you are having trouble using the Ipad or trying to find out how to do something you can go to this video, that will guide you on how to configure your apple Ipad.

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Ipads are a growing technology that is only going to get better and better as time goes on and more and more schools are going to go to a 1to1 Ipads. I think this website and article is very beneficial and free, although it could hard to understand if you are familiar with the Ipad technology and how it could work in a classroom, if you are still having trouble with the website and video future reading such as Ipad in Education for Dummies book could be a great resource to help answer any questions that people might have regarding the evolving technology in a classroom.

Thinglink In Education

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I thought the Thinglink app was very educational and had a lot to offer myself and future students in classrooms that wanted want to use this app as a way to find educational knowledge of certain events. I used this Example of the “Titanic Voices From the Disaster” as an example from this app to look into the bigger picture of the sinking of the Titanic and what actually happened that night, being a history buff I found that this book could be very useful from this app in finding out major information on the Titanic through pictures and articles. I did notice that this apps was a little difficult to navigate at first in trying to find out where everything is and wanting you to pay for an upgrade when first signing up could lead to people turning away from the site when pushed to do these things. I think this app does an excellent job in helping students visualize topics that they choose through videos and personal accounts of what actually happened during that particular event. I do think it will also help students broaden his or her technology skills, with navigating a websites unfamiliar to them.

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You can download this app or purchase upgrades up to $49  to it from the App Store . If you like myself have never used this app before and had a hard time struggling to find your way around it I found that this tutorial can help anyone who is unfamiliar with the app and wants to learn how to navigate it properly. If you are still having trouble with this website you may also use this website to learn more about thinglink. In using this information I have provided to my readers along with the websites and tutorials, students and the common person who wants to be educated on this site should have no problem in finding his or her way around this site.

Week 1 Reflection: Recharge Learning

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I read this article and I thought it was very interesting, in describing how all are teachers and all are learners. In saying this the article describes how everyone can learn and grow from the technology around us. The article explains how technology such as Google Apps have changed the way teachers teach in a classroom. At first the teacher uses Google just as a search engine for himself and his classroom to find information on paticular subjects, but it has become more usefull then just a search engine.The teacher talks about  how today the activities in the classroom start with the 4 Cs (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity). Google Apps for Education provides the teacher  with great set of tools to support these skills. There are other great tools that the teacher  uses, but most of what we do relies heavily on GAFE. The teacher has found that his classroom has adapted to the new use to being a more learned centered environment. The teacher feels his own learning has shifted to a great reliance on my personal learning network of the GAFE. You can come to a common knowledge that everyone is a learner with these Apps and that unlike the old days of having the same information in the school, these Apps are always being updated, making it easy to get latest information on any particular subject.

Some of the Apps include Google search engine,Gmail, Calendar, Address book, Txt message,  and many others that can benefit the person trying to use them in many different ways.

Conclusion,  I feel as technology grows it will only benefit the classroom for the better. I feel not only students are becoming learners from this technology but teachers are as well, making it “All are Learners.” I am starting to understand how these Apps are actually changing the classroom, in a way that students are able to increase his or her knowledge beyond the classroom and books from the library into larger sources from the world wide web. Whats great about this is that most of these Apps are actually free for download.

OSMO in the classroom

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I thought the OSMO activity was a great way to help you learn basic skills such as putting letters together to make words, this activity would be great for all ages. I thought when we grouped up and helped each other complete the task that the OSMO wanted us to do was fun for the entire class. I thought the Masterpiece was the most interesting activity of the OSMO, even though it was a difficult task in trying to stay on the line when drawing the flower in a pot, i did notice half way through the activity that I was starting to get the hang of it. My partner that I shared the Masterpiece design, with also had some difficulty of staying on the lines, but he also thought it was the most interesting activity that we did with the OSMO.  I also thought that the words activity was also a great way of keeping you on your feet and thinking all the time of what word the picture might be trying to make you figure out. I do think that my partner and I thought that the picture can be misleading, but it does make the activity challenging. An overall view of the OSMO activity is it  gives students a chance to learn with technology from the I pad, by pairing up and doing a task on an OSMO, that can be social and competitive. The only flaw I would have a concern about is the cost of the OSMO activity, for classroom purpose of being 80 dollars, teachers might stray away from the OSMO, because of price and the number of OSMO’s you would need to satisfy the class.