This week was great! Not only I learned a lot, I got new ideas and shared my perspective with people from all over the world. It's interesting to read about other places and the way the education is set and conducted in other places than mine.
Like a jigsaw puzzle, pieces are falling into place. I like that. As Edward Wright said few posts before me, 'you do not have to invent the wheel', but you can surely find another use for it. Something you never thought of before. And why not? Isn't that what makes the world turn around?
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Being a member of oer.mk I really thought that that was it! But I'm glad to learn that even this learning diary is OER.
Every site that allows usage of teaching materials and resources under the Creative Commons Licenses is considered OER. WOW! I have my own YouTube channel and most of the tutorials or video presentations are there, open and public. I started uploading with my students in mind - I just wanted my students to be able to access them when they needed them. Then I shared few in a professional group at a request from few colleagues and now I know a lot of colleagues that use them in their own teaching through out the country. It's a limited group of users though, being that I teach Macedonian language and Literature. But still, it's rewarding because when I go to a training or conference, people already know me, they know my work and the school I work in. And that's a great feeling. I just love it when my brain is in thinking mode. Ideas rush, words flow and in a blink I get a detailed picture of what I can do and how to do it.
WHAT TOOLS WOULD I USE TO SUPPORT MY LEARNERS... 1) Classroom-based activities Open tools you chose: Presentation tools (e.g. Prezi), Collaborative writing tools (e.g. Google docs / Mediawiki), Interactive tools (e.g. Socrative), Social tools (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) How you might use them: Students could do a Race with Socrative quiz. Neil's feedback: There are a wide range of technologies that can support classroom-based learning. Technology enables learners to acquire knowledge, produce new knowledge, share knowledge and check their own knowledge. You could use a wide range of tools in a classroom-based setting depending on the learning outcomes of your session. For this type of activity, you would typically use multimedia production tools, presentation tools or collaborative writing tools 2) Informal social learning Open tools you chose: Collaborative writing tools (e.g. Google docs / Mediawiki), Interactive tools (e.g. Socrative), Social tools (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) How you might use them: Plan and organize activities with GoogleDoc. Neil's feedback: For this type of activity, learners will want to make use of collaborative tools, such as Google Hangouts; they will probably also make use of their preferred social media networks, such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to share updates, and will probably use these alongside email and SMS. Increasingly, learners are producing their own revision questions (e.g. MCQs) to reinforce their learning, so they may use an interactive tool to produce and share these with their study group. 3) Work-based learning Open tools you chose: Collaborative writing tools (e.g. Google docs / Mediawiki), Reflective tools (e.g. Wordpress), Social tools (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) How you might use them: Wordpress or other Blog site creator (Blogger). Student could reflect on his/her blog and peers and teachers could comment (on the blog) or share his/her blog and peers and teachers could comment via social media. Neil's feedback: Reflection is a key component of the learning process, irrespective of the learning context. Digital technologies can help leaners to keep individual records of their professional development, and to share these with named individuals or publically. In this example, you would probably advise the learner to use a reflective diary such as the blog tool WordPress or to keep a video diary using a multimedia tool. However, a collaborative writing tool such as Google docs would work equally well if the main aim was to keep a written record and share it with others. 4) Online learning Open tools you chose: Multimedia production (e.g. YouTube), Presentation tools (e.g. Prezi), Reflective tools (e.g. Wordpress), Social tools (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) How you might use them: Student could create videos (using their mobile device or camera), upload them to YouTube, create a Prezi in which all the steps are explained (with words) and adequately illustrated with videos. Neil's feedback: In this activity, learners would need to produce a resource that demonstrates them undertaking the skill and shows them to be competent with all aspects of it. Depending on the skill concerned, this may be best demonstrated through use of multimedia production tools and some form of presentation or reflective tool. It is easy to imagine a learner recording themselves with their smartphone, uploading this to YouTube and embedding the video in an online Prezi with a narrative.
I've used most of the open tools from the video, and then some. Truth be told, not always with my students, but still, I'm quite familiar with them. The video just gave me new ideas on how I can use them further.
Let me suggest few other free open tools to try:
Looking at the Padlet and all that was said there, I'm beginning to get lots and lots of ideas. Even though Kahoot is not a new thing for me, I like that people are really opening up to using it. It's interesting and engaging. It gives everyone a chance and being that competing is in human's blood, students try their best to win points. It works great with students with SpLDs, too. I know my dyslexic student loves it and always has great results. Another variation of Kahoot is Quizziz. The difference between the two is that Kahoot is limited to being teacher-led, Quizziz is NOT. It can be played whenever, where ever and the teacher doesn't even have to be in the same classroom with the students. I've chosen Tridicer to be the tool I introduce. It took me all of 3 minutes to set it up and create the starting point. It took longer to record the video instructions. :) I'm hearing a lot about Moodle and I'm dying to try it. But I've already introduced Edmodo in my classroom so I'll just play with it this school year. I don't even know where to start with it so best way would probably be to look around, watch all the 'how-to' videos, try myself. Best start would be this video, I think. |