Hi everyone!
Wow! first week with all these blogs and I feel like I've learned so much already!
There is such an incredible amount of useful tools to learn from! I hope that while following these blogs I will really be able to learn about many things that can later be applied in my lessons, and not just feel lost inside a world full of endless knowledge.
In one of her posts I found some really interesting ideas of how to enhance class trips and tours by using social media. She suggests to open a group chat on Whatsapp and to determine hashtags beforehand. The group chat is a great tool for the students and the teacher to help finding each other, update friends about cool exhibits, ask questions and share photos.
I myself have used Whatsapp groups in the past for that purpose exactly. It was great! I split the students into groups and let them walk around. Throughout the day, I sent them a list of "missions", like a scavenger hunt. They would have to find or create all sorts of things and send a picture to prove they finished. Our day out would turn into a very interactive game. The students all enjoyed it, and I could easily gather them back to one place before we had to leave.
The hashtags idea was completely new to me. I especially loved it because the students can look back on their experience and reflect on it. It's also a great way to share the event with people who weren't physically a part of it (interested parents, students who were absent etc.)
She gave two cool ways to use assemble the hashtags together:
1. Tagboard
2. Storify
The second blog I started following is Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne.
In one of his posts, Richard shares a video of a very admirable teacher named Keith Hughes. In the clip, Keith introduces Five Ways to Help Students Reduce Test Stress. After watching this video, I decided to look up more things about Keith and his own posts. In the link I shared you'll be redirected to 27 videos he made, all containing practical tips and advice for new teachers.
Third and last blog: Technology Tailgate
I found an interesting post about a Chrome Extension called Google Tone. It looks like something that could be very useful if you decided to teach that day in the computer room. Basically you could share any URL to any webpage with your students within seconds. Instead of having to walk around and making sure every student found the correct website, you can install Google Tone onto the computers in advance and save up a lot of class time.
That's all for today!
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