This course gave me the opportunity to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses regarding information literacy skills, as well as those of my students. Knowing that the internet is a powerful tool and that is able to inspire us, although it may also be intimidating. Students need to develop their own evaluation skills to enable them to use internet resources on their own outside the classroom.We should provide them with the opportunity to know how to conduct meaningful searches, developing their new literacy skills.
The construction of an activity for searching and evaluating content on the internet and including it in my inquiry based unit plan using screentoaster was wonderfull. This tool along with other social networking tools such as voicethreads and blogs are wonderful tools to evaluate the validity and reliability of internet resources. This course was very important to help me cultivate better the critical evaluation skills in my students.
I was wonderfull to construct activities for their inquiry-based unit plan that address the internet resources evaluation and synthesis as well as effective communication.
One of the most interesting experiences I had was with the flat classrooms. The opportunity to have our students collaborate with colleagues around the globe is absolutely awesome. Some of the web 2 tools I am planning to integrate in my classrooms are the voicethreads, virtual fieldtrips, blogs, prezis, glogsters, powerpoints, movie maker films. I would also like my students to use the webspiration concept mapping tool as well as a survey tool which is called surveymonkey and is so helpfull with the surveys the students need to do. As for bookmarking, I also feel that it is important and will start using it properly myself and introduce this tool to my students.
As I advance through these courses I see so many new things that do help us so much with these digital natives which are our students.
