Sunday, March 16, 2014
Blog #8
Moodle is a learning stage designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners to create personalized learning environments. It has many tools for both teaching and learning. It focuses on interaction among the individuals. Moodle is easy to learn by using drag and drop features and documented resources. There are many things that you can use on Moodle such as chats, blogs, grading, assignments, online quizzes, forums, and sharing resources. By using this, it will allow my students to interact with each other, help each other with projects, and study for tests. There will be further resources for the students that I will post. If they have questions for the teacher, they can post online. More than one student may have the same question, so it will be up for everyone to see.
Socrative is a student response system. It allows teachers to engage in their classrooms by using educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. It is very easy to use and takes seconds to login. Teacher’s login and they can select the activity and control the flow of games and questions. The students respond by multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. The students can use this as a study tool. You can even use it as extra credit if they do the work on it.
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Hey Katherine!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of Moodle or Socrative. Moodle seems like a very good learning tool. I think it would be helpful for students to interact with each other and study for tests together, just like you said. It's great that the students can post questions to the site and the teacher can answer the question right there. That way he/she only has to answer it once for all students to see.
Socrative seems like another awesome resource. The use of games really gets the students involved and helps them prepare for tests. I like your idea of using this tool as extra credit.
Great job on your blog post, and I will hopefully remember these tools when I become a teacher because I believe they will be very useful. Keep up the good work!
Moodle is the Course Management System used for Baldwin County.
ReplyDeleteSocrative is new to me. I just signed up. I may use it this semester