Paragraph1: According to the website, please tell what you find, what you think, and what interests you. How and why may you use Inspiration in your classroom?
I looked over the Inspiration program and found it to be surprisingly comprehensive and userfriendly. While I'm not sure if I'd use Inspiration in my classroom as a teaching tool, I might use it to produce visual aids for my students, both to suppliment my instruction and to teach them how to do outlines and brainstorming. Some students are, after all, visual learners.
What type of writing activities would make the best use of technology in your classroom?
Writing is an activity that benefits from multiple revisions and high-quality feedback. Recognizing that your teaching time is limited, how can you have students help each other during writing? How can you use technology tools to support peer feedback?
I'm pretty sure all sorts of writing activities would make good use of technology: what with the advent of word-processors and editing software. With spell check, e-mail, and the ability to save one's work, editing and revisions are as simple as re-opening the file. In terms of having students help each other, there's always good, old fashioned group work. However, this can be supplimented by the use of online message boards and by e-mailing assignments to me, the teacher.
voicethread
17 years ago
I agree about using the visual aids for students. I myself am a visual learner and probably would have done a lot better in some of my classes such as chemistry if I would have had a tool like Inspiration to help me along. About the group work. ..I really don't think that groups work. I have found that students really don't get a lot accomplished when working in groups. I have learned this through experience as a colorguard instructor, students seem to get side tracked a little too often when working in groups.
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