Monday, April 13, 2015
Life is always fun of excitement with all the new technologies that the world throws at us. This blogging stuff is getting better as I learn, and I can see how it would be so useful especially within the classroom. Aside from blogs lets look at glogs. I think glogs are serious awesome. Glogs are just an awesome way to make an online interactive poster. Through these online posters people can post audio recordings, videos, pictures, and more in order to present or show something. As a secondary education history major these would be so awesome to use in many ways. One, I feel that these glogs would make really cool group and individual projects. I have worked on many lesson plans, and in one of the plans I have students work on individual projects where they find out about a person, place, or event. I could have them take that assignment and make it into a glog. For example, Rosa Parks and person could make a page dedicated just to Rosa Parks and her impact on the Civil Rights Movement. Then I as a teacher could get on the glog, and see what they did to help others learn about the person they write about. Another way I see using glogs is to prepare a lesson using the online poster, and have different things accessible right with the click of my mouse. I think it would be a fun, and more entertaining way to teach and to allow students to do assignments. With this modern and computer day and age students know how to easily access this stuff, and would produce amazing works of history. Students would eat the glog posts up because it relates more to them and these technological lifestyle. Those are two ways that I would use glogs in my classroom to help students learn.
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I once taught an elective class called "American History through Music." Students analyzed a variety of music, ranging from Civil War ballads to gospel songs sung by slaves to Vietnam protest music. The music was so rich and informative, and I think that we limit ourselves by primarily sticking to written primary source documents. What I love about glogs is that you can bring in those other forms of representation, such as music, which really illustrate how people in different eras thought and felt. Thanks for your posting.
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