Week #12

Glogster
In keeping with the Social Justice theme, that I have been working on the whole semester, my Glog represents the faces of change.  I would use this as a writing prompt.  I have provided the students with just a snippet of information on these social reformers.  I would ask them to choose two and make a comparison.  The Glog poster would then be shared with the class through the Glogster web site.  Students would be required to view all Glogs in the class and make comments and ask questions.

Glogster T-chart

Week # 11

Affordances are the ways in which the technology allows learning to take place.  For example, there are the mechanical aspects of doing an activity, making a Youtube video requires collecting pictures, music, assembling the video and posting it to youtube.  The affordance is the learning that actually takes place from doing the mechanical steps.  For example, while I was making the youtube I learned about the life and times of Dolores Huerta.  This afforded me the ability to compare her life with other social reformers that I have also learned about.  It afforded me the ability to compare and contrast.

I think that the point of the article, to be sure that your use of Web 2.0 applications are not just for the sake of using them, but  offer the student the affordances necessary to carry them to the next step, or level along the learning curve.


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