Online Exercise 15- Communication Tools

Online Exercise 15- Communication Tools

1) A number of technologies have been presented this semester to help you reach outside of your immediate surroundings for personal growth and instructional purposes. How could you use these technologies to help yourself create better learning opportunities for your students?
Blogs and wikis have opened up a whole new world for me which will allow me to do the same with my students. Now that I am familiar with such technologies, I feel better and more informed about how to incorporate these into my lesson plans.

2) How could you use them to help yourself continue to develop as a teacher throughout your career?
While researching information on blogs and wikis, I have found professional educator sites that allow me to read others blogs about teaching and professional situations I have already or will possibly encounter at some time. It offers professional development online and current at any time.

3) What are the benefits of using the communications tools?
Blogs allow for access of current topics. Wikis allow for more immediate conversation between all members of the group.

4) What are the dangers?
As with any internet-based tool, blogs and wikis pose the danger of posting too much information to possibly the wrong person with improper intentions.

5) How can technology help you better reach out to all of your students regardless of their race, gender or economic status?
Diversity is a way of life and becoming more so every day. Wikis, in and of itself, provide the opportunity for collaborative work among students.