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Google drive is an application on Gmail where one can save every file, folder, picture, or document 24 hours/ 7 days and can access them whenever they want and wherever they are. Teachers can publish and share uploaded lessons, documents and even student's work, so that school's administration and/ or other teachers can change, comment on, or just have a look on them. Moreover, teachers can prepare lessons on the cloud shared with another teacher so that they can work on them together in real time from separate places. Another advantage working on the cloud of google drive is that the history of any document, word, excel, or power point can be returned.
Forms:
On google forms, teachers can create online quizzes, assignments, evaluations, and questionnaires and their write the answer keys. The advantages from these forms is that teachers save them online and access them anywhere and anytime they want, they can send the them for example to the administration and other teachers and choose whether they can change or just have a look and comment on. Another great advantage, is that two teachers could be working on the same quiz from different places as if they are sitting together. In addition, students can write their feedback on questions, and teachers can add helping tips. Teachers correct the quiz and grade them online where students can see them.
Blogger:
Blogger is used for instantly publish blogs.
Blogger makes it easy to create blogs, post text and
pictures, and start generating feedback in minutes. It makes things easy for teachers to post resources, lessons, and homework assignments, keep parents up-to-date on class happenings, reflect on their own teaching practices and share their
ideas with other educators. Also, it makes things easy for students to share schoolwork with their classmates, parents, and others, collaborate on projects and get feedback from others, and keep a reflective journal throughout the school year.
Padlet:
Padlet is a free application that allows teachers to create an online bulletin board where they will be able to use to display information for any topic. It is beneficial because students will be allowed to collaborate in collecting ideas, brainstorm, and many more. In addition to that, padlet doesn't show which work is attributable to which student, making all students comfortable in writing their ideas freely, as well as they rate it, add comments to their classmates' posts, and like them.
Posters:
Is a new software from Promethean. Active inspire works with any interactive whiteboard. It supports flash files to present a lesson in class. It can open smart and power point files. This software keep all students engaged in the lesson since it uses incredibly smart files (magic ink, images, activities, magic labels..) and uses a pin to click and write on the board. The great advantage of this software is that students will be always alert and active, it refreshes their memory using smart labels, and magic ink. It can be useful to prepare lessons for any subject whether sciences, mathematics or literature The lessons can be saved and shared with colleagues that makes it easier for teachers.
Webinar:
A webinar was presented by Mr. Jeff Meyer, the director of education for learning.com and resident expert for digital literacy solutions. He is passionate about the need to transform education to data-based and digital resources. In this webinar he discussed incorporating essential digital literacy skills into core subject areas and the standards requiring it.
The instructor started introducing himself to the audience, he was very gentle and polite, then he started to tell about the objective of the webinar. He was trying to convince the audience about the importance of integrating digital literacy skills into core subjects. these skills can be used in mathematics, social, language and arts. He discussed with details four pillars of digital literacy that teachers should teach to students starting from early grades. The first pillar was teaching students how to work with keyboarding and digital essentials, and I see that this step is the most important one and it is introductory step. the second one was teaching students the safety skills and digital citizenship, they need to know how to hold problems, how to site resources, how to know credible from incredible online sites and the rules of school concerning using computers. then after learning these essential skills, teachers start educating students how to apply these skills and create applications, they become independent. In this pillar students start to collaborate with others, use technology to refine, edit and communicate their skills with others. they use these applications to conduct research, produce essay, analyse data, draw conclusions, draw charts and graphs... the last pillar was computational thinking and coding which is the newest and is being used in the United States student will start to think and solve problems like scientists, they will start coding.
In my opinion, teaching students these skills will allow teachers to make online assignments and quizzes making sure that students know all the skills that they need to deal with technology, so the student will be focusing on solving the questions and thinking of the answers not the literacy skills. On the contrary, how would teachers integrate digital literacy skills in subject areas when they themselves don't know most of these skills? and how could they teach students these skills if the school itself doesn't follow any program?
Posters:
The poster is potentially an excellent springboard for discussion. Information provided on the poster will be superficial leaving the interested reader to access the detail from the person most passionate, insightful, enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the research.
WebQuest:
WebQuest is and an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which all information are coming from the web. Teacher will create a lesson on the web and ask the students to perform some tasks all on the web. This application emphasizes on high-order thinking (such as analysis, creativity, criticism..) rather than acquiring information. In addition to that the tasks are used require group work so students will collaborate with each other. WebQuest contains six essential parts: introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion.
WebQuest:
Active Inspire:
Webinar:
Integrating Digital Literacy into Core Subject Areas
A webinar was presented by Mr. Jeff Meyer, the director of education for learning.com and resident expert for digital literacy solutions. He is passionate about the need to transform education to data-based and digital resources. In this webinar he discussed incorporating essential digital literacy skills into core subject areas and the standards requiring it.
The instructor started introducing himself to the audience, he was very gentle and polite, then he started to tell about the objective of the webinar. He was trying to convince the audience about the importance of integrating digital literacy skills into core subjects. these skills can be used in mathematics, social, language and arts. He discussed with details four pillars of digital literacy that teachers should teach to students starting from early grades. The first pillar was teaching students how to work with keyboarding and digital essentials, and I see that this step is the most important one and it is introductory step. the second one was teaching students the safety skills and digital citizenship, they need to know how to hold problems, how to site resources, how to know credible from incredible online sites and the rules of school concerning using computers. then after learning these essential skills, teachers start educating students how to apply these skills and create applications, they become independent. In this pillar students start to collaborate with others, use technology to refine, edit and communicate their skills with others. they use these applications to conduct research, produce essay, analyse data, draw conclusions, draw charts and graphs... the last pillar was computational thinking and coding which is the newest and is being used in the United States student will start to think and solve problems like scientists, they will start coding.
In my opinion, teaching students these skills will allow teachers to make online assignments and quizzes making sure that students know all the skills that they need to deal with technology, so the student will be focusing on solving the questions and thinking of the answers not the literacy skills. On the contrary, how would teachers integrate digital literacy skills in subject areas when they themselves don't know most of these skills? and how could they teach students these skills if the school itself doesn't follow any program?
Well presented and organised, regarding to your webinar i really advice you to watch one as soon as possible it is very interesting and very different from what we do. you might want to watch more than one and add them to your home page.
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