Reflections WEEK 5

During this week we have been working with a site called Wikispaces. Through tool we have learnt how to share information with the teacher as well as creating collaborative documents within our group. Although, this is a very useful tool, both Google Drive and Moodle can be as useful as this site. Personally, I would rather deep in one of these tools than knowing little about each of them. My understanding is that all of these web sites provide a wide range of tasks to carry out but only once you manage to be an expert in one of these pages, you can maximise their resources.

This week we have also had the opportunity of seen our classmates activities to be used with Interactive Whiteboard. These types of presentations allow us to learn from our own investigation to prepare our activities as well as to learn from our classmate knowledge and experience. In my opinion, the presentation of our activities contributes to our knowledge process and sharing all the activities we have all done, would also contribute to our future daily teaching work. One of the groups used a tool called Educaplay, that as they explained and showed it is more dynamic and motivating than Hotpotatoes, the tool learnt in class.

  

One of the ideas that brought my attention was whether children could lose their interest in Interactive Whiteboard (Smith, 2005). As discussed in class, there is no doubt that this could occur, and this is one of the ideas to bear in mind when working with new technologies: No matter what tools or resources are used, our lessons need to be innovative and dynamic, that is, same thing cannot repeated once and again in our lesson. Methodology matters.