Friday, July 19, 2013

Week 3 - Assignment 1: Reflection 2

Engagement this week required the creation of a blog, a wiki and a website. I found all three to be extremely easy to create and use and are appropriate for all primary school students. Information can be presented, discussed, debated, read and updated easily and in an organised way.

  • Click here to view my Managing E-Learning Weebly Website
  • Click here to view my Managing E-Learning Wiki

Some suggestions on how these three online spaces could be used in a primary school classroom are as follows:

Curriculum: English
Topic: Students are required to consider the story of a young convict girl - Eliza Bird.

  • Use a blog to create a journal Eliza may have written, using her point of view and a recount of events that took place.
  • Use a wiki to complete a jigsaw activity where each student is given a character from the book and the student uploads thoughts, feelings, opinions on the events that took place talking from the characters point of view
  • Use a blog to synthesise what they have learnt about Eliza Bird including facts, dates, anecdotes and pictures.
With education now being all about "21st century learners" who grace their presence in our classrooms, I believe online spaces are great tools to engage, integrate knowledge and use to teach the curriculum.

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