With a few lessons students will be able to create their own website which they can use to present projects. A great idea for assignment is to give the class a client from the community (pretend or real) who needs a website for their company. Students then use their combined research skills and ICT skills to create a well presented assignment. The students will feel that they are contributing to the comunity and not feel like they are completing an assignment task.
For younger students the teacher could set up a class website and each week the class collaborates on what they have done or achieved that week. The teacher then puts on the website the brainstormed ideas from the class. Students can also have a chance to share with the class new websites, games, pictures or tools that they find on the internet that relate to the topic they are learning about. The class website is available for all parents and classes to see. The class will feel a sense of ownership of their workand pride in what they do.
As teachers we must be careful that when using technology such as webites that they are 'not the platforms for teaching but the tools to enhance the learning process' (Reflective Synopsis of Technologies Investigated, 2010).
Here is the link to my Weebly I named Food Glorious Food.
http://selinaslovesof.weebly.com/index.html
Weebly.com
Fasso, W. (2010, May 30). Practical Activity: Week 2 - Wiki and Website. Retrieved July 15, 2010, from CQUniversity Australia Managing E-Learning: http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=99696
(2010, August 18). Reflective Synopsis of Technologies Investigated. Retrieved August 25 2010, from Digital Immigrants Diary: http://s0197188.blogspot.com/2010/08/reflective-synopsis-of-technologies.html
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