Your understanding of technology's place in the classroom is really starting to come together. You are learning that technology is not used in K-12 classrooms just to make learning more fun. Technology tools can be used in conjunction with good teaching strategies to address various learning styles and student needs.
Today we will be looking at visual learning software to create concept maps -- Inspiration and Kidspiration. Both tools allow PreK-12 students to see a concept and its connecting themes and ideas. During class today, we will create an "All About Me" concept map. You will need to submit it to me via WebCT before Monday, Feb 25, as part of the class participation.
For the class project, you'll create two (2) activities for your subject area/grade level -- one for a whole group lesson and one for a small group or individual lesson. This will be due on Friday, Feb 29th. In the previous semesters, I asked students to use Inspiration if they chose to focus on grade 6 or greater, and to use Kidspiration if they chose to focus on pre-K to Grade 5. But since you may not be assigned the same grade level as you proposed in this class, you will need to use both Inspiration and Kidspiration to create these two activities, which means, you are going to create one of them using Inspiration, and the other one using Kidspiration.
You'll also want to download a 30 day trial Inspiration and Kidspiration from this website so you can work on the assignment outside of the lab.
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