Post 7

I would like to maintain a course Website as a teacher if it were an older grade that had regular access to a computer. I would like to use a collaborative blog online where I could post homework and other materials and students could ask questions regarding the material. I think this would be perfect for grades 4-12. If it were any younger grades I do not think it would be worth the trouble. I think course Websites are important because they allow students to learn in different ways and collaborate with other students. I feel like they could be useful if they were used properly. As a teacher I would have to monitor anything being posted or added and make sure all safety precautions have been taken on the site. If I feel like my class could post responsibly and learn from the Website then I would be all for it. If I feel like they would not take it seriously or it would be too much regulation for me, I would not want to engage in that.

A tool that I found interesting and would most likely use it in a classroom is Diigo (https://www.diigo.com/). Diigo can be used to share resources over a collaborative site. When reading articles or papers you can even use annotation tools to highlight or comment on something. I think this would be something I could use because if I find an article on there for students to read, they can comment or ask questions on it as they read. They can also share it with other students to see.

I think Web 2.0 could be useful in K-12 education. I still believe, like what I said earlier, that collaborative learning or posting on Websites would only be effective for older grades. I do not see Kindergarteners being able to collaborate and share things with classmates. Nor do I see younger grades being able to navigate a computer on their own. I think the most useful tools for the older grades would be blogs or wikis. I am not the fondest of Twitter use for learning, so I think the most success would come from either a blog or a wiki.  With a blog I can regulate what is being posted and commented and I feel like there is more creativity there. With wiki I feel like the students could collaborate on assignments either at home or school.

For the Web Evaluation assignment I learned how to create an evaluation form and use it to evaluate four websites. I liked how we could cater the form to fit the assignment or resources we were looking for. I liked how we could evaluate the website for anything that we found necessary. I did not like having to come up with some of the bullet points on my own. For next time I would be more specific to the resources I was evaluating. I feel like the one I made could be used for a vast number of assignments, which might actually prove to be a good thing.

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