Today we have retaken the New Technologies lessons since we finished our internship stays. We have been remembering the objectives of the subject, the activities we needed to have done at the end of the practicum and the activities we have to finish at the end of the course.
We also have been introduced to the wikis, a collaborative technology available in the Internet. I have designed one in Wikispaces: YouShallNotPassAgain. I have posted a page (with no relevant information, just for practicing uploading pages into the wiki) and everybody has sent an invitation to the teacher's wiki in order to be editors of his.
04/12/2014
This morning one group has presented the topic of "Usage of Whiteboards or Smartboards in Primary Education", which has been really interesting. I've been using a smartboard during my internship period and I can assure that they are very innovative, easy to use (when you get used to working with them, of course) and they are incredibly motivating for kids because they receive a double-perspective input: written content and visual content (which I think it means double reinforcement that increases reception).
Next we have presented our tasks made using whiteboard. Our was about the topic of plants: photosynthesis and nourrishment.
The first activity of the task was a webquiz that activates prior knowledge.
The second activity was a visit to the webpage:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/213/deploy/interface.html
Where students have to underline (using the whiteboard stylus) the important or key words and, then, they have to write them down in a piece of paper.
In the third and last activity, students have to fill a mindmap in with the words that they have already written down. This mindmap has been done in Popplet.
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