Week 6 Posting for Enhancing Learning Material through Technology CEDO 525

This was my final week of CEDO 525.  This past week, we presented a unit that we revised using some of the technological tools we learned the past 5 weeks in class.  I would have to say that some of the websites that offered different graphic organizing tools as well as the sites that offered ways to make web maps, were the most useful to me.  I also liked learning about the different options available for providing recognition to students, such as certificates and the ability to type on students' work.  As with the past classes in this cohort, I found CEDO 525 a practical class that can be useful for me in the future.  As always, I added some of the tools I learned in this class to my Diigo account so I can have easy access to the information and will not have to search around with Google to find the info.  Now...on to my next class! 

Week 5 Posting for Enhancing Learning Material through Technology CEDO 525

This week in CEDO 525, were were discussing tools for identifying similarities and difference, use of homework and practice, and generating and testing hypothesis.  I currently teach a low level reading class, and often do activities that have the students identify similarities and differences in books we read.  I usually will have the students do this with pen and paper, but I like the idea of being able to do this electronically.  I am going to give my students the opportunity to do compare and contrast online if they do not want to use paper.  As for homework and practice.  I tend to give a lot of home work and practice as bookwork or worksheets in my Civics class.  I would like to diversify the practice I give to my students by making more online quizzes for students and having them do more web based activities.  Finally, in my teamed Life Science class, we give the students plenty of opportunities to generate and test hypothesis that they have.  Recently we used a prob which was connected to notebook computers as an instrument to measure the oxygen level of a plant that was in water, but stored away in the dark.  The students had to make a hypothesis of what they thing would happen to the oxygen level as the plant stays in the dark longer.  It was a great way to set up and test a hypothesis and the use of technology was something that would be otherwise very hard to measure.  I would like to continue to use more technology in science to help test hypothesis students have in class.