Thursday, February 4, 2010

NETS Skype

Our teacher has partnered our class with a fifth-grade class to allow us to practice the use of technology in education. Earlier this week, she posted a list of questions from the other class. Each person was assigned a question to research. In class today, we used Skype to webcam with the fifth-grade class to communicate our answers to them. This assignment met ISTE standard 1 by using technology to facilitate student learning. It also met standard 3 as it allowed us to communicate relevant information and ideas to students.

NETS Google Doc Survey

In class, we used Google Docs to create surveys that could be answered by the other student. We each put two questions on our surveys covering many different topics (music, sports, school). My survey asked about literary preferences. We then used the results to construct a graph which we posted to our blogs. This activity demonstrated ISTE standard 3 by allowing us to collaborate with our peers to collect and analyze information.