TF-I. Technology Operations and Concepts: A-2:
Today, I learned the importance of informing teachers about emerging technologies and some websites they can use into their classes like turnitin. It is a website providing to monitoring students' assignments about plagurism. But teachers need a licence,password, from the school to use it because it is not free. It is not just for monitoring plagurism. It also includes some free online learning videos. To reach other free online learning website, Beth advised me the website named lynda. It is like atomic learning website. We talked this topic because a teacher came to her office to asked an atomic learning website to upgrade of her atomic learning on graphics.
As for another technology resource used in education world, we talked about Edutopia. Then we view on screen. It is a great educational resource for all teachers. It includes videos, contends for different grades, some core strategies to make teachers developed, and much more!
She also said that she is following websites named thejournal and eSchoolnews to find more resource in order to inform teachers about them.
We reviewed a video on youtube about how to use photoshop as a tutorial video for teachers. Then, we viewed a video including a different teaching style used by a phycial education teacher. He is talking about healthy by in a rap music ryhtm. Here is the link.
Technology is used for not only teaching but also communication to inform parents. For instance, there is a monthly newsletter prepared by director of communication at Alter.
Today Beth also showed me recording how many and why people came up to her office to get help. She needs to record this information. It is called creating ticket on the alter website in a tab named Help Desk. Creating tickets is important because it provides a good knowledge about how many computer is in needed to fix or how many computer is fixed soon by tech team.
Lastly, a student came to her office to find a solution in order to save her work on her laptop. Her laptop was frozen and she did a MS office word working in her class. Beth used DyKnow to save and print out her working because her laptop waws still frozen after our tryings. DyKnow is that is a classroom management and interactive learning software. There is a link here that provides a good video about an IT's perspective about it.
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