Katerina Drakaki-Peterson
ETEC 524
- Discuss the variety of tools you explored, what you liked or disliked about each one and which one you selected one to continue to reflect on.
- Describe how this creativity tool that you selected might fit into the TPACK model. Specifically, describe the content, pedagogical and technological aspects of some student work that uses the creativity tool you selected.
- Identify other ways that students could use the creativity tool you selected.
- Why is it important to know about and use creativity tools? What do they offer that other tools (i.e., drill and practice, tutorials, instructional games, etc.) do not offer?
Voki:
Enjoyed exploring the tools for this assignment. I started with voki; experience the ability to make the character speak with my own voice. Students will have fun with voki. Voki can be dressed up according to what we like for occasional play, or for history and science play. We can record what we like to fit the occasional Voki will repeat it exactly as we recorded. It was a lot of fun to work with voki; I will keep it in mind for any occasion or class of students I may find it useful. We can use it for reminders, dates, and business and for education. I will mostly use it for fun with students having mild disorders and difficulties. Young people will love to hear what they say and learn how that will be able to be done with their memorization of steps. It will be a way to teach them step by step instructions to follow in order to achieve something that I am sure my students will have lots of fun.
Continued with ever note a tool we could use with all our devises, ipad, android or windows. We can read it from everywhere we are in any device we may have with us at the time. We can use it at the desktop at work, ipad, android, or OS and many more. We will pick up our notes from anywhere. I will show this to students but at the same time they can use their own email system to create a calendar and they can pick that one from anywhere. If they do not have an email we cannot use Evernote. All applications and tools need an email.
CloudOn:
CloudOn brings Microsoft Office to our ipad and links it to our box, dropbox and google Drive. I found that very easy to use and is nothing more than google docs or skydrive which I already use now. I personally like the skydrive. I use skydrive at work and share with supervisors and itinerant teachers we all find it user friendly.
Prezi:
I am overtaken by Prezi, it is what took my attention and I will use this in the future for my own use, the students and teachers, and with itinerant teachers.
Prezi fits perfect with the TPACK: Prezi is presentation software which makes sharing ideas easy. It is a storytelling tool for exploring; my students can pick their presentation frame from many different ones and for many different reasons. Their presentation can talk on its own without anyone having to make a sound. I can only imaging our deaf/hard of hearing students and visually challenged students of what joy would this bring to them with the assistance of a teacher, of course. It will enhance collaborative learning environment, collaboration, because it allows up to 10 people to co-edit and show their “Prezi” in the exact time. Most important the license is free unless we want to take it higher, which it is not need but we can leave that up to each group.
Teachers and students can bridge with other students, other schools, explore learning, from ideas, to books, to math and science, work to be done, goals to be placed and explore more reliable learning and instructional learning in higher education.
It can present visual information for the hard of hearing students, it can challenge them to pick frames and make the presentation they want, they can be group according to the project they are working on. It can enhance their learning and teachers can enhance their teaching.
Another way they can use the Prezi is for their hobbies, explore with it get others to follow with the same hobbies.
In the class room we can explore ways to get each one of the students involve or break in to the teams inside the Prezi. Technology which can be easy at the same time it can also be challenged. The students can find their own ways to use it in order to get feedback for the studies or the test they are facing.
It can be used by students and teachers to collaborate on their presentations, multiple users having access and they can be able to edit on the same presentation. They can present their own knowledge with different learning styles.
It can offer thoughts to be shared and feedback inspirational education presentations and reports discussions. Other media and files can be added.
Creativity tools can bring a more challenging prospective to our learning; give us intellectual knowledge of the specific tool. It is more fun to use they are different. Other tools are too common, too simple, not able to challenge our brain. Creativity tools can offer us to be more open with subjects we have chosen, find way to add friends and knowledge from around the world, they bridge us with friends and relatives, pick difficulty on games have a specific challenge.
We can find specific creativity tools for our skill and knowledge, interesting topics, we can express ourselves and approach the tools pick the tolls that suit different situations.
Creativity tools can teach strategy skills, from simple to analyzing difficult one to crafting unique and successful competitive position.
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