Oh! What a lot I have to learn. Incorporating blogs and any other interactive computing ways of learning will be a great way to engage students in the classroom. Wendy's story about the teacher who created a person who took a journey which was followed by the children was an exceptional way to engage the students and help them learn. I think if it is possible to think creatively about engaging the students and then extending their learning in this way then I shall be a tiny bit further along the continuum of becoming a teacher.
Other things learnt from Lesson 1
1. Delicious Bookmarking site.
2. Wikispace - sharing with class
3. Text2mindmap - creating mind maps.
4. Bubbl.us - creating flow charts, brainstorming on line.
5. E-learning place - resources for teachers
6. Google Maps - taking a walk down bourbong street
7. Fish shop maths resource - multiplication game. - Question - are there other ways to set up multiplication game.
Wendy showed us how to do this in e.g. powerpoint with pictures of e.g. fish or whatever and putting them in rows.
8. Bloom's Taxonomy - site with much information. A fabulous sheet on Christmas activities in this and explanations for which level the activity sits in /bloom's levels of thinking.
9. Learning Circle created - by folowing blogs of others. We learn from each other and help jog the memory of ourselves and others with this information exchange.
10. I need a little discussion please on making thinking visible. Would like others thoughts. Making thinking visible to me is actually creating something for which the students have to think how to design or implement or find out informaiton to complete the activity. The visibility is the end result of what they had to learn to be able to complete the creation.
Come for a Chat
You are invited to come and have a virtual cup of tea, a bottle of champagne, or a nice cosy, rich, smooth, hot chocolate, with me, in this snug little nook. If the table does not suit you, I have the most beautiful, intimate, friendly, and warm, lounge area on the other side of the room where you can relax, unwind, and chat in dulcet tones, and leave the troubles of the world behind. Yes "we are doing it tough at Uni", and this is a place you can come and be yourself, and be treated like you are the most important person on the planet, (which you are - no-one realises it yet). You may eat and drink anything to order, everything is made fresh to your specific taste, and you will be looked after so that you feel safe, and secure, in this place. The company will be relaxed and entertaining, and you will feel energised, happy, and will laugh many times, because you are having the most wonderful time. I look forward to your visit. Bye from Gema.
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