Today the technology class was a little overwhelming. The teacher talked about so many different stuff, that I left the class confused. But i knew that I had the presentation in the website, and I could review at home quietly. The most interesting thing that I learned today was the power of google. I didnt't have any idea that we can customize our search by dates, or go to advance search, or printout pictures in different colors. It is very interesting to understand how to obtain the right information in the internet. We also learned that so many different schools in the world are already using technology to provide instructions and to give the students the freedom to be the explorers and responsible for their learning.
Gamification was also part of the interesting presentation. I think I will talke my time to learn it well ,since I am a Spanish teacher and I think that the kids will have so much fun doing it in Spanish! One interesting website that we learned about is edutopia.org, This particular website is going to help me a lot to obtain some teaching strategies, activities, lesson plans and kind of information. Another cool thing that I learned is how to create word cloud and digital badges. I work with a tutoring company and they gave a badge. I think is pretty cool and we definitely can use badges with our students. They will love it!
I also thought it was cool that you can limit you search so greatly! I knew that you could choose colored images or black and white, but I did not know that you could limit it by color or date, which it useful when you are doing research and you do not want outdated material!
ReplyDeleteAmazing what you can learn when someone takes the time to show you the tools that can make your life easier!! Google is an amazing tool to use!!
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