The Last Day (12.5.2011)

  We kept going the presentation about the Web2.0: Bubblesnaps, Animoto, Voki, Current.com, SpellingCity, and Edublogs. Their presentations was nice and informative, so I enjoyed watching those presentations. I think Voki is fun for students to make their own as if they customize their character and give it a voice. Moreover, Voki can speak the various languages. I remembered the short video that young kids had been interviewed how they use Voki as the educational tool. The kids recognized what they wrote down after they played the voice. For example, some students knew that they needed periods or missed a spelling from the sound. It is a great program for the language learners. Similarly, other programs seems to be practical and useful.   

  It was the last day to take the Fall Monday ED2255. I am glad to learn about technology in America. I know that I have lots of spaces for learning the educational skills. As the one part for improving my skills, I learned how to use some programs for students, parents, and teachers and why the programs help for. I believe that the technology is necessary in the classroom after I was taking the class. The importance of the technology cannot be ignored these days. 

ED 2255 (November 28, 2011)

This week's class focused on web2.0 presentations, so seven students went over their presentations: Mixbook, Facebook, Twitter, Digital Photo Story, Engrade, 30 boxes, and wordle. There are lots of technology to help a teacher as an educational tools. However, the web2.0 still has controversial issues to use it. Fox example, students can assess personally a teacher's Facebook as we talked about in the class. How a teacher handles this? If a teacher opens an account for the purpose of her class, it would be fine. In other words, students can assess nothing but the class materials. 

I think that "Digital Photo Story" is helpful for kindergarden kids as projecting pictures every kids to see them in class. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular of view. Both a teacher and students use the frames which are set up on the website. When students create their slide show to tell their story, they can improve their writing skills, show creativity, and have a voice. Likewise, other web 2.0 has lots of benefits when to bring in the classroom.