EDU 653 - Epe's Digital ToolBox
Technology Integration to Engage & Better Served my Students
My Digital Tools & My Personal Learning Network
In this Instructional Design Journey, I have encountered tools and resources to mix my traditional language instruction with Educational Technology to enhance my teaching and engage, inspire, and improve students' performance.
In this emerging web and mobile technology course I have broaden my knowledge of different digital tools and resources, that I have added to this Digital Toolbox as I have been introduced to them.
I divided the toolbox into two categories:
Digital tools (Voki, Pinterest, Nearpod, voicethread, smore, khoot!, Blogger, and more...)
Personal Learning Network (Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more...)
Kahoot: The Powerful Language of Play!
With this web tool, you will be able to transform your classroom into a game show! It is an excellent way to study, learn, and review the content while challenging your students and having fun! It is easy to use by the instructor to prepare quizzes. Students can use their phones, tablets, or laptops to follow. I recommend this tool to other instructors because it can adapt to any field. Since I encountered this tool, I have used it routinely. If the school is not progressive in the technology field, it is not useful because you need some technology aids and the students need their tablets, cellular phones, or tablets. This tool is great to review or complete surveys and I think it will be still effective a year from now.
Voki Challenges you to create your own speaking avatar
To introduce myself in this course, I created my own Avatar, aka, Epe. She is full of life and ready to accept challenges.
in a Second Language Class, Voki is a great tool to have fun while the students create their own Avatar and practice grammar, vocabulary, structures, in context situations. It is easy to use by the students and it is free to use in a basic way. Students can use their phones, tablets, or laptops to create their own avatars. I recommend this tool to other instructors in my field of expertise. Since I encountered this tool, I have used it not that much. If the school is not progressive in the technology field, it is not useful because you need some technology aids and the students need their tablets, cellular phones, or tablets. This tool is great because students can give voice to their avatar and create brief sentences in Spanish to put into practice what was learned in class. I think it will be still effective a year from now.
EduBlogs: To Connect & Communicate
Other Digital Tools...
Meme
Nearpod
VoiceThread
Smore
Spanish Tutorial: StudySpanish.com
Real Academia EspaƱola de la Lengua
Get Connencted, Engaged, and Grow Professionally!
So many places, people, organizations to follow... So little Time...
Email: Adelia.ParradoOrtiz@lr.edu
Website: http://mcl.lr.edu/faculty
Location: Hickory, NC, United States
Phone: 828-328-7219
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lenoir-Rhyne-Foreign-Language-Department-1613334578895343/timeline/
Twitter: @aparr021