Module 2 has introduced me to many new online resources that I plan to embed in my instruction or use to help create/plan my instruction in the coming school year. Thank you Dr. Wirtz for introducing me to Rubistar! It will make my life so much easier since I use a lot of Rubrics for my class assignments and projects.
I have encountered HotChalk before but I want to make use of it this year. HotChalk is the resource that I recommend. It will enable you to create quizzes and the system will grade the quiz. You can also create and assign lessons!
The Wiki got me excited about some really cool resources that I can't wait to try! For instance the resource that Bill Pilgrim posted, http://edmodo.com/, is the perfect resource to create assignments, interact with students as well as parents. I can't wait to explore and hopefully be able to use this in my classroom this year. Other websites that were posted that will change the way I teach are http://www.tenmarks.com/, http://www.freerice.com/, http://www.epals.com/ (I'm so excited about this one for writing), http://www.carlscorner.us.com/or (this one will help out with reading interventions), and of course there are many, many more.
I have an eno board (similar to a smart board) so I am really interested in the sites such as, http://www.nlvm.usu.edu/ed/nav/vlibrary.html, http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=f0400a83-0731-40fe-a8ad-a98e2aaa18c1, http://www.ppst.com/, and http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html to allow me a more hands on interactive style of teaching.
So, how will all these online sources change my teaching? They will allow me to create interactive lessons in which to actively engage my learners, have activities on the computer that my students will be able to access and learn from, make assignments, grade assignments and much more. With all this immersion of technology into my class, my teaching will never be the same, it will be changed forever and I will only learn how to implement more strategies and new technologies as time goes by.
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HotChalk looks very cool and easy to use. From looking at it, it's a lesson planner that is interactive? What a great advantage when planning and having all those resources at the tip of a mouse click. A challenge for me would be filling out a plan for each day, but it looks like it would be fun. The edmodo site you mentioned is great, and free is even better. The kids enjoy using it. Good luck with it!
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