EDUC560

Google Forms:

    Google forms is one of the most wonderful application we've been taught to use because it simply makes your life easier. I know that in our country that would be kind of hard to let our students use it, but at least we try, cause day after another technology is improving and all of the world is moving toward an unknown spot of improvement.
I've been one of the glad students to know all the ticks that should be known in order to be able to use such an application. Google Forms can help us as teachers do surveys, make researches and quizzes or exams online with a direct feedback that can be given to the teacher about the performance of the students.

Google Drive:

    Drive is the best thing I've learned about in this course. This course actually showed me how special google is, and how easy it can make one's life. My Drive is in short my computer, it includes everything I have. I upload pics, documents and videos to it to make sure they're safe and stored somewhere in the clouds without taking from my computer's or phone's memory. And the best thing of it, is that you can open it on more than one device, so you can have your important work held with you anywhere you go on your phone with no need to carry a computer for it.

Web Quest: (Google Sites)

    My friend and I worked on a Web Quest for Grade 11 students for the English Language. The students had to read the Alchemist fable written by the famous Paulo Coelho, act a part of it and do some interactive work online. This was a pleasure to know how to do, because really we need to start using technology as a main tool for teaching, and we should cooperate as teachers with the global technology that is chasing the world.
A Web Quest is used to have the students do a task, and we as teachers have to provide all what is needed for them to do it. In addition to that, as harmful as the net in the hands of the students could be, as beneficial it would be if it is used in a correct directed way. For that, on a Web Quest the teacher can make it specific and safe for where she wants them to go and what she wants them to do.

Google Slide:

    We used Google Slides to make a special peculiar group work online. Chatting was not accepted orally, all what we needed to do was using the Slides with the options it provides. I worked with two ladies on Gardner's Theory of the Multiple Intelligence and we had to make a Pecha Kucha  presentation to teach this theory to the rest of the class. We made sure we eliminated all the non important additional information, and focused on the main ones presenting them with pictures in best way we could.

This google slides works like the Power Point, instead that it had some buttons and features hidden so we needed a few time to figure where everything were. But  the best thing of it, is the invitation issue and  how we can chat while working together and cooperate with the idea that three are working on the same presentation at the same exact time.

Microsoft Office Word:

   We already had a good view on how to work on Word, but through out this course we had a look on how to work on the citation of pictures, graphs, and tables as we learned how take up a table of content.

Publisher:

    We learned how to make a business card using the Microsoft Office Publisher.

Poster:

    
   Learning how to make a scientific research poster using the Power Point Program was something very essential to me as a master student in the first place because my domain needs me to be able to do so, and as I go on for my thesis, I'll have to present my findings and this would be the most suitable way to do it.
Designing a poster was a joy to me. I loved working on its appearances all along the content that should be neither too broad nor too narrow, clear, direct, and eye grabbing and relaxing.
I also loved figuring out things about Power Point that I haven't knew before.

Blogs:

   Blogging is fun. It is a nice peculiar non-traditional way of interaction with your peers within your domain or space of work. Using a blog, you can communicate your ideas, reflect your emotions, post your thoughts and react. Blog in short is more like a formal facebook.


Activinspire:

    This program is the most one I liked among all because of the urgent need to it and because most of the schools are starting to work on the active boards as they're trying to walk with the technological flow. My school is one of those schools. They brought us a smart board and I was the first to use it because I'm mostly the 1st to know how to do so. Within the activispire we learned how to plan for an interactive lesson that involves the students totally in the process of learning. We learned how to use this program and how use some hidden ticks. This one of its kind program, has special ways to make learning more fun and includes some ice-breaking activities that make teaching more complete.Although of its limitations it is still special and makes you  able to come up with new activities that wouldn't have came to your head before.

Padlet:

    Padlets are special ways of interactions. They can be used for a closed or an opened group to comment, reflect, share ideas about a certain issue. They're special of their kind and like non of the other ways of interaction.

Pullev:

 
 Another way of technological interaction that can be used to gain a feedback about a certain issue.
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Rubric:

    Rubistar is the best saver of time for teachers who want to develop a rubric for any kind of oral or written activity, but don't actually have enough time to do so. Rubistar just build it up for you from the scratch and in the best way you would imagine with just few minutes not more.

Snipping Tool:

    A  tool within our computers that we didn't use  before this course. Glad to know about it. It can be used to snip anything you need on your screen and can't be saved in another way. I can say it is kind of like a screen shotter.

Zoom (Webinars)

    Webinar is a seminar conducted over the internet. It is a web conferencing  used as a term for plenty types of online collaboration. In this course, we had the chance to attended a webinar each regarding the topic he/she is interested in.

Zoom:

    

    Zoom is an application that can be downloaded for free. It is also a kind of an online conductor that helps you interact and collaborate over the net. In our course we used it to attend an online session with our instructor and classmates.

Bitly:

    Bitly.com is a site that helps you shrink any link you want. It just makes it smaller for and looks better.

Quizlet:

  Quizlet.com is a site used for teachers to design quizzes, tests, and even revision cards. It can be used to let the students quiz themselves and test their knowledge and their memories of  certain  specified concepts.

Kahoot:

    Kahoot.com is website that provides an educational game which can be designed  as a formative assessment tool.



VCT:

    A VCT is a virtual lesson plan or kind of an electronic unit. A teacher could plan for a lesson or  a cooperative well organized unit, in which she includes all the resources needed and all the tasks that the students are going to fulfill. She could add what so ever she needs for her lesson so whenever she wants to give that lesson everything would be ready in front of her to just use it in the proper way planned for.

Mind map:

    This app is used to brainstorm about a specific idea. It can be used as an introduction for a new lesson or as a summary that wraps up everything taken. The best part of it is that everybody in the class could be working on it and sharing hints and ideas at the same time. Mindjet and bubbleus are also two sites that can be used to similar purposes as  Mindmap.