My E- Learning Blog

I found this fantastic article written by Margie Meacham on “How to use “Multiple Intelligence Theory in the virtual classroom“.

This article decribes the different intelligences and ways to engage the diffeerent intelligences in a virtual classroom.

For example, if you are trying to engage a child who is of kinesthetic intelligence; that is a child who can process information by interacting with the physical space around them. They will respond well to learning activities involving

• hands-on manipulation of the keyboard or mouse as a “student driver”
• watching videos or presentations that let learners put themselves in the action
  simulations that let learners make decisions that affect the outcome of the story or case
• game-like activities that require hand-to-eye coordination or rapid reflexes
  buttons that let them express feelings with digital signals that take the place of facial expressions
• videoconferencing that lets them show their body to other participants and express concepts through gestures, mime, or dance
• blended solutions that let them create something with their hands and share it with the rest of the class through a digital image (Margie Meacham 2003)

I strongly advise you to read this article as it can give you the picture of how to connect and engage these amazing children in our classrooms.

As Margie Meacham contented;

“Combining what we know about multiple intelligences with virtual classroom features can help us enrich e-learners’ experiences.”

* If you are unable to get to the link the site is;

http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/jun2003/elearn.html

I found a video on smart boards by Mary Lehman. She is an elementay school teacher at Stony Brook School. She talks about the uses of smart boards and how it is used so her students can interact with the content being taught to the class.

Mary uses the smart board during transitional times as well as for English and math lessons. Interactive smartboard lessons are taught in a whole groups or individually.

Students enjoy using the Smartboard in Mary’s class because; they can make objects move, it is fun and interesting.

I haven’t had the opportunity to use a Smartboard as yet, but when I do I hope that my students will enjoy and interact with the learning tool as much as these children were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzL1NYi3Y8

Erica highlighted a fantastic teachertube video on Erica’s posting called 3 Steps.

Erica mentioned;

“3 steps is a teacher tube video that challenges teachers to think about how learning should be occuring in the 21st century. It assumes that technology could be as seamlessly intergrated into our classroom as it already is in our homes and the workforce-and why not? Teaching must be relevent to the studnets and thier world and this vidoe callanges teachers to consider if their’s is”.

I aggree with her comments, I believe this video gives you ideas on how to intergrade ICT tools to make learning collaborative and powerful in a 21st century learning environment!

Here is a great slide show on Interactivity. It gives you examples of the 2 types of interaction; human - computer interaction and human interaction. It also reflects on the components of interactivity; feedback, control, productivity, creativity, communication, and adaptivity. This slide show gives you examples of tools to promote interactivity in your classroom learning environment such as;Scratch, Wikispaces, EduBlogs, GoogleDocs, Voicethread, Viddler, Houndbite, Bubble Share, Tabblo and Slideshare.Why don’t you check these tools out and incorporate them into your ICT lesson plans!

Today in E- Learning, we were introduced to SlideShare. I found an excellent slide show on Gardner`s “Multiple Intelligences” and thought it would be suitable for our WebQuest introduction page.This slide show looks at the Multiple Intelligence theory of; Linguistic intelligence, Mathematical intelligence, Kinesthetic, Rhythmical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalist intelligence. Can you guess what multiple intelligence/ intelligences you are?

In our webquest task; we have decided to apply Gardner`s Multiple Intelligence theory to ICT English lesson plans.