Paper.li
Paper.li is a program that makes daily newspapers following the tweets that a Twitter user follows, hash tags, or lists. This is a great program because the newspaper is in a reader-friendly format that uses Twitter updates and links to bring readers stories, tweets, videos, photos and more. Overall creating the newspaper is simple and the end result is great. This is a great tool to use in the classroom or to bring together a group or class hashtag!Watch the following video to find out more about Paper.li and how to use it.
WebQuest
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity that uses resources throughout the Interent. these online quests help students develop problem-solving and decision-making skills. WebQuests are interesting, motivating and engaging for teachers and students. When developed correctly, WebQuest help to develop critical thinking skills and can incorporate a cooperative learning component to the lesson. As students explore the Internet, they are learning and absorbing information pertaining to the Quest while exercising problem solving skills and critical thinking to solve a problem. When designing a WebQuest, teachers should encourage students to go beyond fact finding and to ask students to use their creativity and critical thinking to solve problems effectively. WebQuests also helps to encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information. WebQuests can be both short term and long term.A great example of a WebQuest Can be viewed below at the following site.
Learning Object
Another interesting and creative tool that I have learned to use is called Wordle. Wordle is on online tool that can be used to generate “word clouds” from text that the user provides. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in a source text. You can be creative with your clouds by using different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Once the Wordle is created, it can be used as desired (online, printed, etc.). See below for an example of how I used Wordle to create a "word cloud" incorporating key words for my Genius Hour project.
Genius Hour Update
As I finalize my research, I am beginning to research and understand the significant role that nutrition plays in education systems. Countries such as Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and Estonia are only a few countries that provide free nutritious lunches and snacks for students at school. I believe that this is important because it helps prevent childhood obesity and malnutrition in children.
Providing free lunches and snacks for all students is also imperative because when only a few children qualify for the meals, it creates divide and negative stigma for children. Studies have shown that when I child feels that there is a negative stigma attached to the meals, they will not accept them. Also some children may not exactly qualify for the meal, however, they have no access to nutritious meals otherwise and they end up falling through the cracks.
I believe that providing nutritious snacks and lunches is important for ensuring that the minds and bodies of students are fed. This in turn effects the performance of students and helps them in their learning.
Cheers until next week!
Ashley
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ReplyDeleteAshley, great job on your blog! I kind it very aesthetically pleasing, the background made me cheery when I came on to your page. I like your font choice as well, it almost looks handwritten which makes the blog seem very authentic. You did a good job covering all of the topics we went over in class. I like your informative style of blogging. I am excited to see your ted talk and interested in knowing how your genius hour research went!
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