Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.
A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.
Chapter 4 - Pedagogy
Motivation through the possible 'white heat of technology' - the newness.
* Emotional engagement
*Immediacy
* Action Engagement
* Cognitive Engagement - see the Hierarchy of Engagement on page 75.
* Creative and Critical Thinking - Bono's Six Thinking Hats and Technology
* Using VLEs
* Social Interaction - Oliver and McLaughlin (1996) proposed five levels of teacher-learner interaction: social, procedural, expository, explanatory and cognitive.
* Engagement
* Assessment
Chapter 2 - Theory:
* Piaget's stages of cognitive development and technologies.
* Skiiner's programmed learning theory - technology programmes that are task analysis, sequencing of learning and presentation of concepts through step by step positive reinforcement.
* Wenger Communities of Practice
* Gilly Salmon (2005) five-step model of levels of maturity in online environments: access and motivation/ online socialisation/ information exchange/ knowledge construction/ learner development.
* GBL and Avatars discussed.
Key aspects of book of relevance:
* explains e-Learning - cybergogy (online pedagogy)
* 3 modes of learning - expository, active and interactive
* synchronous and asynchronous learning alongside cognitive and social natures of learning
grounding in both theory and pedagogical application
A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)
A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)