Class 5 Chapter Readings

These chapters 4 and 6 support the discussion and activities of our class. I have really seen the value of Graphic organizers while teaching at a predominantly ELL school. Students need to see ideas in more than the written or spoken word. Students have trouble with the relationships between two pieces of information and drawing conclusions from them. I plan to increase my use of these tools for students to organize their thoughts and to plan their own projects.

I am excited about the collaboration part of Web 2.0. I am working on how to make that useful to ELL students and work around the blocked sites. It would be great too if there was a wiki of sorts that would be a student created tutorials on some of the programs and projects in my class, where they use multiple media to demonstrate ideas and share ideas. Later students would be able to view findings add their own and ultimately progress further than previous students. Students would be able to build on others work.

I like a lot of the ideas that were shared, however, I'm not a Social Studies teacher incorporating technology, and I’m a technology teacher incorporating Social Studies. My goal is to teach Arizona Technology standards and one of my goals is to do that well.