Throughout this course I have learned so many new strategies an added many new tools that I can incorporate into my classroom as I reach all the different learners that will walk through my doors. The first that comes to mind is the creation of a NING to be used by the school staff. Our school year has just ended and there are many changes in store our school for next year. We are losing our tech coordinator. I want to be more of a leader in our school so that teachers feel more comfortable with integrating technology in their own classrooms. The NING would be a central place where staff could learn from each other and share their own knowledge, projects and ideas with the rest of the school community.
The next tool that i have picked up from during this course is the Natural Reader program shared by our group member Erin Middendorf. It is a free text-to-speech program that will be very useful for my 2nd graders that struggle with reading content written on a 2nd grade reading level. I have used the KidBiz3000 website, there students can use text to speech tool to listen to the text that they have trouble decoding. It is limited though only to the passages made available to them. the Natural Reader program makes it possible for me to write sentences, passages in a word document and then be available to be "read" by my students.
The final tool that I will use is Prezi presentations this was shared during our group chat by Scott K. I decide to create a Prezi of my own. I had a great time doing and look forward to having my students using it to show what they learn throughout the year. Students can use their creativity to show their deeper learning.
Thank you to all members in Group #3. Your ideas and resources are invaluable.
Friday, June 25, 2010
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