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✅10/04/2020 💗 Week 5 Reflection

How time flies! In a blink of an eye, we have finished the journey of week 5. When I sat down and tried to sort out what we experienced together, I surprised realized that we had explored and discussed so many exciting teaching tools!💜

↑Last Night's Sunset!

Besides, what impressed me most in week 5 was the "Padlet morning sharing activity". By answering a few simple questions, students can take a deep breath, share exciting moments, and get their visual focus and attention. I really like "Padlet" as a teaching tool. It is a good platform for collecting and sharing ideas. Users can add pictures, links, videos, and files to their post-it and move and arrange it.

In addition to the "check-in sharing" before class, I think teachers can apply Padlet to different teaching environments. For example, "Knowledge Retrieval Activity", the teacher can help students about the memory of the previous day's lesson by asking each of them to write three takeaways on the Padlet. Or, "knowledge Predicting Activity" when teachers are preparing to teach new knowledge, they can let the students write down predictions about the new content on the Padlet first. Later, refer to the Padlet to see how close students' guesses were.

Here are also several of the tools that really impressed me, and I would like to classify them according to my understanding. ^.^

💫"Voicethread" and "Flipgrid" are tools that users can give feedback in flexible ways(video/audio/Text/Image).

💫"Loom" is a practical, user-friendly screen recorder. For example, students can choose different playback speeds. They can also pause the video at any time, leave a message or ideas in the comment area.

💫"Google Slide" and "Google Docs" are both classic and practical. They are especially suitable for assigning group work so that team members can complete the same task asynchronously, such as a presentation or a group report.

💫"Perusall" provides a more interactive way to complete class reading. It allows students to annotate text asynchronously, helping them interact more directly with course materials and classmates.

💫Using "Padlet" and "Jamboard" to bring a sticky note classroom activity to the students. The initial "whiteboard" interface provides teachers and students with an opportunity to create unique "bulletin boards." Students can also create notes or attach images, audios, or videos.

💫"Blackboard" and "blog" can improve students' writing skills. They can take ownership of their own writing, become a better observer of other people's writing, and have a more direct and powerful audience understanding.

Comments

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