To enhance the note taking that takes place within my classroom, I would like to incorporate Power Point to create combination notes. I think that all students, if they aren't already familiar with it, should be able to create a power point presentation at some point. Using Power Point as a means of taking notes and adding graphics to those notes would tackle two areas for teachers...familiarizing the students with Power Point and teaching another way to go about taking notes in class. I think though, just as the authors stated, it's necessary to set rules for the note taking. Students, just as some adults, tend to write down every word that is said or every piece of information that they read in a text. It's important to teach the students that unnecessary information should be deleted...only key points should be recorded. Students should also be taught how to locate clip art, or other forms of graphics, that will accurately portray their information and assist their memory recall.
I would like to try to use Wikis or blogs with my students this coming year. I do see a lot of problems with this, however. On my campus, not many of the students have access to a computer outside of school....none within the household, and some aren't able to go to the public library. If students only have access to a computer at school, and it's very limited access, blogs and wikis may not be a successful tool. I suppose that setting up a blog for students to use only during projects would suffice, except that I'm worried that they will forget passwords and usernames every time that they are used...since they would be used so intermittently.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Instead of forming groups within a class, how about forming groups across classes? You could have two group members in period 1 and two group members in period 2, for example. That way they can experience the purpose of blogs and wikis during the school day. We can't guarantee that students have access to the appropriate technology tools when they leave school so we have to try to find ways to give them these experiences while we have them. I think you can meet the challenge!
ReplyDelete