C4T#4

C4T #11 - Free Technology for Teachers is a blog post by Richard Byrne. In his new post on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, Collaborative Writing Across Multiple Grade Levels, he describes how we went to Brad Wilcox's presentation on inspiring kids to have quality writing skills by allowing high school students fix elementary students writing errors. This will benefit both parties because high school students don't want to give wrong corrections and elementary students will be enthusiastic about someone else grading their work that they will work harder to not make mistakes. He also talks about Google docs and how great of a tool it is for virtually everyone! He even has a 40 page document showing step by step how to use Google docs and some of its tools within it. I commented that Dr. Strange made us use Google presentation and gave us a checklist that we could edit ourselves and much more involving Google docs! It is a great tool to have.

I just realized I have the same C4T as last month, but I already begun, so I will continue to use this assignment with newer posts. Plus, he has great websites and other tools we can use in the classroom and blogs about a different one every week.

C4T #12 - His post on April 24, 2012,Build Your Own Video Games on Sploder talks about what Sploder is and why it would be good for students to use. He discusses that Sploder is a website where you can create your very own video game. It has different elements you can use repeatedly throughout each scene of the game. There are only four templates you can use to begin the creation of your game. This will allow students to use logic and create sequence because they use this to create the game. I commented that I agree that this is a great tool for students to learn how to plan and organize what they are about to do and it helps them think ahead. Also, it helps students understand the use of technology and why it needs to be in the classroom. I also commented that students will be creative and have fun at the same time and they won't even know they are learning logic ans sequence.