Second Day of EdTech

Second Day of Educational Technology

So starts the second day of Educational Technology (at least for those of us in section 1). Let my very first blog commence!

Anyway today in class we came with our assignments completed. This consisted of looking through a list of online tools to use in the classroom, and then sharing them on a googledocs spreadsheet. My genius self posted it to the wrong section, but there are perks to having class in a computer lab, and my mistake was easily and quickly fixed.

The online tool that I found is called Draw Anywhere. It is a website that allows students to create diagrams, charts, flowcharts, and other forms of concept mapping. These can be saved online or printed, and can be accessed from any computer. The perks of this is that a student can create a flowchart to organize their ideas, and easily access them at home or at school. Concept maps can be created at school, and viewed at home, and vice versa. Pretty brilliant.

We also created Prezi accounts and began to get accostomed to using that. The main thing we mentioned was how easy it was to use, and the comparison to Powerpoint, which has to be downloaded on a computer in order to use. I do think that I have fallen in love with Prezi.