Sites used in a classroom October 5, 2009

After looking over the glogster site I believe that this site could be useful in the classroom when teaching poetry and alternative book reports.  I viewed a number of glogs that used the visual aspect of a glog to express their ideas and stories through poetry.  The site could also be a creative way to do alternative book reports.  Students could post and use images and words to describe the book they are reading.  Gabcast would be useful in a classroom through the use of interviews.  A student could use gabcast to conduct and record interviews on a subject they are researching.  Gabcast could alos possible be used for students to debate a topic.  By having students debate a topic by recording their opinions and then reviewing the debate in the classroom.  Museum Box could be used in the classroom through a unit on perspective.  By having a student choose a character either from literature or a historical period students can get a sense of a character/person’s perspective.  Through this activity a student could learn how and why a particular person or character makes the choice he/she made and why.  TimeRime could be used by students to make time lines of literature to show how events in a story took place.  This site could help students place events in a time line to then help them use the information in future writings.  All of these sites could be very useful in the classroom for a number of reasons.  If teachers are willing to encourage the use of this technology it could help students be more creative in their work and show more responsibility and pride in their work.

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