702 has been a valuable class due to its practical lens and nature. Every week we were creating some real lesson plan or product that could be useful in our practice and we were creating them with readily available tools. I want to take a few moments to highlight some of my favorite and most impactful tools for my practice and then discuss some ideas for implementation with my prototype.
Tools for Practice: #1. Jing The tool I anticipate using the most in my practice from 702 is Jing. It is free, easy to use, can do screencast or image capture, has some basic editing tools and makes sharing files easy. The biggest advantages there are free and comes with sharing methods. One of the continual struggles is having students turn in work in a way that is accessible. With different teachers in different rooms wanting different things, sometimes students struggle with the procedures. For example, my universal procedure is “give me a share link.” I almost never need editing rights to my students work and a share link guarantees I can access the file. Other teachers demand they get full sharing privileges. So, sometimes students get things mixed up and don’t share properly or use the wrong link. That’s just with google drive. Now add in other apps educators use where sometimes you can copy and paste the url from your browser and other tools where you need to click publish or get a share link or check privacy settings. It actually can become a bit of a time sink teaching different procedures and correcting the inevitable mistakes. Jing automatically uploads and provides a shareable link, no room for mistakes. It is a one click solution. #2. Common Sense Media This website comes with lots of free, pre-made, ready to go lessons for incorporating digital citizenship. They come with videos, facilitator guides, student recording sheets, you name it. A little extra work will be required on my end to align it with my mathematics standards, but free lessons are free lessons! This site also has a lot more I am excited to explore #3 Google Forms + Add ons I already used Google Forms in a small variety of ways, but the discussion in the class has broadened my horizons. Just seeing the ideas my cohort members had for creative Google form use gave my new ideas. Add on all the great add-ons we discussed and now it feels like the only limit to Google Forms is my own creativity as an educator. I am excited to find new ways to make my room more efficient! 702 Tools and My Prototype In terms of my prototype, there are less direct uses for many of the tools we used. For example, Common Sense Media does not have much of a place in my prototype because digital citizenship is not a directly related topic to my DQ. However, I can still plan to implement many of these tools. Google Forms can be a great way to improve the limited comment sections of many website platforms. I can accomplish much more with a Google Form link than I can with a Weebly Comment sections for example. So I am excited to find creative ways to build communication and feedback channels in my prototype with Google Forms We also discussed social media, specifically Twitter. I can definitely use it for advertising or creating hashtags related to my prototype and DQ. I can also use Twitter as a sort of “reference.” I can pull tweets from experts in the field of my DQ and embed them in sections of my prototype. My audience may not be able to read as many articles as I did for my lit review, but they can read tweets from a credible source like Boaler or Dweck quickly! I can use Jing to create screencasts for my prototype and use sites like Canva, Infogram or Piktochart to create original infographics to use in my screencasts to share information. I can also use video editing tools like Vibby to create highlights of videos, to keep my audience's attention. Overall, I feel like 702 has been a super productive class and has given me a lot of tools to work with. Excited to see how these tools all come together in the next phase.
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