Today Christin, Neil, and myself presented on chapter 9. I really liked this chapter and feel like I will use many of the tools we found in the future. Overall, I think the presentation went well. I enjoyed finding different visual tools to use in the classroom (and I included our glogster in case you are interested in viewing any of the tools)! We received great feedback from Jeff and our peers which was very encouraging. I love presenting in classes because it's great practice for my future!
Jess introduced dweeber as her cool tool. This is a social site where students can connect with their peers to talk about homework, have study sessions, etc. As Jess said, young students cannot easily meet with their friends (unless parent's take them somewhere). This website would be a good way for them to collaborate and ask questions. However, there are limitations to this site such as potential cheating or not having any friends on the site.
Another cool tool I think would be useful was GoogleLitTrips. Katie introduced this website and showed us you can map different events and historical places. She mentioned that they are not many books in the archive so teachers could create their own or older students could also create trips based on books they are reading.
Sextexting. This was Neil's contemporary issue and a topic that I think is extremely disgusting. It is sad to me that young children (and older people who should know better) are sending this inappropriate text pictures. I truly wonder why someone would want to do this but I suppose it's an issue we, as future teachers, need to be aware of. I hope that I will never have a student who decides to "sext" but if I do I need to understand how to handle the situation.
Time to finish our stop animation! :)
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