Sunday, August 1, 2010

Thing 5

Wiki's are different then blogs because anyone with a computer can have access to them and anyone can edit or make changes to them once posted. Wikipedia's can be very useful in the classroom because students can post articles in a wikipedia (encyclopedia) and other students can help edit the article and it can also give teachers access to the articles and make changes to it if neccessary. It also can show students that writing articles is not a tedious assignment but one that millions of people do for fun and at the same time can improve their articles.

Thing 3

I created a twitter account and learned quite a bit since it was my first time dealing with twitter. After I logged in I learned how you could follow different people just by picking a category such as sports, family, music, books, and arts. Since i loved sports I decided to follow Troy Aikman and Dwayne Wade. I also learned how to follow different friends you already have a twitter account. Pretty interesting.

Thing 4

This application of picture saving and sharing can be very useful in the classrom setting because first off kids love it when they can add pictures to their projects plus it makes them more interesting at the same time. Also it allows them to save pictures or photos in one spot where they can be easily found and shared with other people.