While quite excited to begin our course project, I have been unsure of how to use the plethora of technology available to me. I am well aware that my students know so much mroe about webtools than I do, but I still know that many would be overwhelmed by having too many or too complicated web toolos available.
After previewing this week's resources, I have found some strengths and weaknesses with the presentation tools shown to me. Prezi was an entirely new resource. As an adult, I enjoyed the freedom to have a limitless space with which to maneuver objects of my thought process. I lied to see how the ideas would flow and then be able to simply mix up the ideas as I saw fit. The two main problems that I forsee witht eh program is that 1) While it is nice that there is limitless space in every direction, havign to constantly scroll back is a big inconvenience. 2) As a teacher, I know some of my students would feel overwhelmed by the abstract and limiltess capabilities.
Webtools 4u2use was a great resourse, but I was reluctant to try out any of the links because they did nto look itneresting. I could see from that site that many kids will have trouble. The site does not having items listed clearly. It would have helped to see a bulleted list that was not embedded in text. The tools I explored were good and fairly easy to use, but I did nto spend as much time at that site as the others.
I completyly enjoyed cool tools for school. The sites were listed were the first thing on the site and were lsited separate from text, so I could easily find what I needed. Pezentit was my favorite tool because it will allow groups ofs tudents to work collaboratively even when they are not together. I think this tools represents what future communication will entail for our yong minds.
