Thursday, February 4, 2010

Inspiration

What interests me about inspiration the most, is that it helps with structure writing, it helps you transform work/writing into polished presentations, it is easy to use and as you type in your ideas it gives you specific images that can go along with your lesson. Of course I WOULD USE INSPIRATION IN THE CLASSROOM. IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS A TOOL THAT WOULD REALLY HELP IN TEACHING ESPECIALLY THE VISUAL ASPECT. Inspiration also helps with structured writing, a task that many individuals have a heard time getting the hang of.This will make teaching easier as well as more accurate , detailed and easier to understand.

The type of activities that would make the best use of technology in the classroom are powerpoints. If you give a student a writing assignment ad tell them to present it in a powerpoint. They not only have to write, but they have to use a computer and be computer literate in order to do the assignment. Meaning technology must be used to complete the assignment as well.

Students can peer review other students writing assignment and give constructive criticism. Sometimes that works best because students can relate to each other and it is easier to listen to someone your age.

Yes, I believe that you can use technology tools to support feedback, for example, To give the feedback you could have the student create a blog and post their comments on their blog and have students read and comment.

The first time that I had to teach a topic was two summers ago. I was a summer camp counselor for fourth graders. I was given the task of teaching them how to write a how to paper. I knew how to do that, but it was way more difficult to teach it and be precise at what I was trying to say. A lot of times it is hard to transfer your thoughts into words to get someone to understand, but after I did it a couple of times I began to get the hang of it.

1 comment:

  1. I found your intake on inspiration to be very interesting. I admire your confidence in your goals and objectives for your future teaching plans.

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