This week there were two topics of discussions: Learners Autonomy and One Classroom Computer.
As I work mostly with one computer (I tried to use a the library at school where there are some computers but only four of them work and they are very slow, besides the physical space doesn't allow to group work) I chose to focus on the second topic.
Reading the material about the topic I discovered many more uses for Word that I didn't know they existed!, like templates for brochures, project presentations, invitations, and of course letters.
There is also the possibility of organisation of group work while using One Computer, mostly given different tasks for groups while one is using the computer. Simple ideas that help to organise class work with the available resources.
However another thing is when technology is not available, which happens to me this week, but that's another story.
The resources I found most interesting to me were:
http://www.deborahhealey.com/techtips/may2009.html
http://www.lburkhart.com/elem/strat.htm
Dear Mariangel,
ReplyDeleteAs you said, teachers must be ingenious to organize our students and assign them activities while the rest is working on something else.
This course has been really inspiring because as you said we have been discovered that every program has as many uses as we can imagine, we just have to be more curios to go beyond that our eyes can see.
Ale
Hi Mariangel and Ale,
ReplyDeleteI second your opinion about organizing the students in a fruitful way and the new discoveries we have have been offered through this course.
Marsi