Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Using Technology to Increase Student Understanding

One of the things I am most excited about this summer is learning how to use so many different kinds of technology. Some of these I already knew about, but didn't know how to create, myself, such as a webquest. Some of these I had never even heard of before.

I am really interested in having my students create blogs in order to practice their writing skills; especially to help them in the writing of their own thoughts and opinions. I am most interested in seeing them read and comment on the blogs of their classmates - would this create more spontaneous communications in the language? Would this allow them to be more free and have fun with the language? Could this be my action research project?!?

I am also looking forward to learning about how to create podcasts. I think this would be a great way to evaluate oral communication.

Although I didn't know that much about webquests before, now I see so many options that it will be hard not to webquest my students to death! I am most excited to see the different webquests my classmates have created, which I can then "borrow" for use in my own classroom.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

Great ideas! I'm glad you're eager to apply your new tech knowledge and it seems to me you've come a long way and are doing a great job! Lisa B.