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Kelsey Tillery Web 2.0 Essay Due 02/13/12 Looking around all the different tools and websites that demonstrate how to use technology in classrooms, I am really starting to enjoy technology. Technology has come so far in the last several years and it really has made an impact in school districts and the way teachers in the classroom teach their curriculum. The first tool I looked into was called the Quiz and Test tool. I really enjoyed reading about all the different things you can do as teachers to give quizzes to the students. The Classmarker was interesting because you can make a quiz and the student can take the quiz online. The classmarker allows the teacher the choice of making true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank, and punctuation quizzes. I like this because as a teacher it gives me the opportunity to mix up my quizzes and so I would not have the same structure of quiz every time. The Easy Test Maker I really liked because it will help me make up my tests for my students. The Easy Test Maker will help me create true false, short answer, matching, etc. This is helpful to me as a teacher because if I were running late on making my test I could go to that tool and it would help me make it for me in no time. The last tool in the Quiz and Test tool is the Hot Potatoes. This tool allows me to create an interactive multiple-choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, and crossword, matching/ordering and gap-filled exercises. I like the Hot Potatoes because it allows me to have fun and interactive activities in my classroom for the students to enjoy instead of always taking notes. The second tool I looked into was the Slideshow tool. The slideshow tool would help me a lot as a teacher in making different slides and uploading photos to show to my students. It would help as a nice visual for my lectures and also to make creative slides with photos so my students get the best quality of lectures. I am familiar with one of the tools called Photobucket. I used to use this website to upload my photos for Facebook and so I would have pictures before I got my first laptop. I liked this because I could just log on and there were all my pictures. I could use this as a teacher so I could use the same pictures over and over each year I teach and won’t have to upload them again. Slideboom seems like a useful tool also because I could share my power point presentations to other teachers in the school or I could post them online for my students to look at them if they missed class or they just need extra time to look at the power point. The third tool I looked into was the Drawing tools. This tool is interesting because it would be useful to my Special Education class. The Word it out tool would help them because they can create their own sentences, documents, and tables. My students could make their font as big as they want so they can see it clearly and in any color they want so they are comfortable looking at the screen. Art pad seems like a fun website for my Special Education students because they can draw and also type in a picture they want. They can use frames and play a movie if they would like. They drawing tools allow the students to have fun with learning in the classroom. If the students are having fun then they will want to learn in the classroom. The fourth tool I looked into was the creativity tool. From being a teacher’s assistant for a year I learned a lot on how Special Education students do not like to pay attention for a long period of time while a teacher is lecturing. The teacher I helped out would have mini lectures then would have fun learning activities online for the students who could do them. This tool would be very beneficial for me as a teacher because there are several online activities for the students to do. The PlayAuditorium tool would be a great tool for math problems and solving games. When playing games like that it would make the students not think they are actually doing math but that they are playing a game that involves math. The Diffen tool would be great for my more severe students in learning how to differentiate from one thing from another. This will help them know the difference between animals, numbers, colors, etc. The final tool I looked at was the Mapping tool and this tool would help my students learn how to recognize states and other parts of the country. The Atlas tool allows you to make the map as large as you want it to be and in any type of color you want. Scribble maps allows you to annotate and customize a map of your choice. You can make maps of places you have been and share them. Just writing about five different tools allows me as a teacher to do so many different things for my students on line. The different tools will help my students achieve and more importantly to have fun while learning in my classroom. I have learned so much by doing this assignment and it opens up to new doors for me as a teacher to show my students different games, maps, quizzes, slideshows etc.

1) This is the Web 2.0 assignment. 2) This was one of my favorite assignments because it taught me so many ways to teach a class with technology. 3) I now know how to use tools in my classroom and incorporate technology into my classroom as a future educator.