My E- Learning Blog

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!

Even though Web-Quest has been around for more than ten years now, I had never actually heard of it until my E- Learning lecture in class. I found the article “A Decade of Web-Quests: A Retrospective”, to be benificial to my understanding of this ICT teaching tool.

The creator Bernie Dodge, defined Web-Quest as “inquiry oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet” (Dodge, 1995a).

WEbQuest is a learner-centered approach to teaching, it is a
constructivist approach were students focus on; thinking, understanding, and transformational learning. The learning environment  is working on various levels of inquiry- based learning, cooperative learning, scaffolding, motivation and challenging learners to an enriched learning process.
My partner and I  have decided to create a Web-quest for the first time, we are hoping to create a WebQuest that is well-designed to promote “dependable instructional practices by combining research-supported theories with effective use of essential Internet resource, produce open-ended questions, that will  offer authentic tasks that motivate students and teachers”.

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This was my first experience using PODCASTING with GarageBand.
I found GarageBand to be a little difficult at first as there were so many tabs, that I wasn’t sure where to go to to set it up. Luckily we were given an introduction mannual for us to discover the wonders of GarageBand.
I can already see what a valuable teaching tool Podcasting could be in my future classrooms, and that I will definitely endeavour to use it as a teaching and learning tool.