Class+Digital+Tools

==This page is for assignments' reflection on[| Electronic Village Online (EVO)] course Digital Tools With Purpose in the Classroom. In the first week, we explored [|Prezi][| Flavors me], [|About me] , and [|Animoto] .==

Tasks:
1- Choose a tool to use with your students from the above mentioned. 2- Make a lesson plan for implementing this tool with your students.

Goals:
1- By the end of this session, students will be able to write an autobiography about themselves using About Me. 2- They will be able to upload pictures on About me and design attractive autobiographies about themselves.

Tools need:
1- Computers 2- Projectors 3-Internet connection

Pre-task:
1- Brain storming about autobiographies 2- What can be written in an autobiography. 3-They will have to write a sample of their autobiographies on pieces of papers. 3- Showing them Aboutme and how they can create their autobiographies on it.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">During Task:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1- Each student will have his/her own P.C and they will create their own profiles on about me. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2- The teacher will monitor them during doing the tasks.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Post-Task:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1- They will have to share their links of their autobiographies with each other. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2- I'll make a poll on which they can vote for their favorite autobiography from their classmates' autobiographies.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Checking Understood Concepts about Autobiographies:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1- Elements that can be included in an autobiography. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2- Tools that can be used

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Second week:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the second week, we explored different tools of helping students to write. I explored [|Bitstrips], [|Dreamdoze] ,[|Five Flickr Card]. I really liked those three websites.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bitstrips makes it fun for students as they can create their own comics and write their stories, simple introductions, etc.. However, it needs subscription and it's not free. If your school has the resources, you may want to give it a try!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Dreamdoze, is the website I would recommend you to give it a try with your students in the classroom because it's really interesting and tackles the idea of dreams and writing about your dreams. Talking about dreams will initiate much discussion about their dreams and whether they believe in it. You can also discuss dreams superstitions. For example, in Egypt we do not tell about our bad dreams. We only tell about our happy dreams. We get superstitious if we told any person about our bad dream, it may turn out to be true.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The third tool I explored is <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Five Card Flickr. This tool is also thought-provoking. It triggers visual insights to narrate a story from different pictures. Students choose five cards and they create a story about those five cards. This of course can be done without using the Internet by printing out different pictures to students and they choose five to write a story about them.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Last Task for the Second Week:

The last task for the second week was exploring three tools and thinking about how students can use them more in their writing tasks. The tools are: 1-[|Prezi], it's an interesting tool to engage students in presentations, assignments and an attractive method to do presentations other than the usual power point slides. 2-[|Photopeach], I adore this tool so much. I explored it and liked it a lot. It's a fast, easy tool to make presentations abut anything with music. It takes few minutes to upload pictures and choose the desired music and here you go! You can share the video via various platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or blogs. Her one's something I tried out on the site :) media type="custom" key="12168258" 3- [|SlideRocket], it's a cool tool for creating presentations. I have not tried it, but I watched the video tour and it seems like a very user-friendly. You can sign up for free to use this tool. I would give it a try!