4 technologies:
Google doc, google forms, moodle and Khan Academy.
I decided to read and know about Google docs, google forms, Moodle and Khan
Academy as they are widely used in education so I have to know about
them and try them. In addition, they cover wide range of interaction
patterns and can be used for interaction, collaboration and class
management. I also asked my workmates, read the articles sent and browse
through a number of online resources speaking on educational
technology.
Google Docs
Google
Docs is a productive tool for collaboration or for working alone. You
can access your documents from any computer that has Internet access,
without fussing with USB drives or emailing stuff to yourself or
uploading and downloading documents to online servers.
One of
the great benefits of an online document such as Google Docs is the
ability for people in different locations to collaborate on a document.
Just go to the “Share” tab and enter the email addresses of people you’d
like to view or collaborate on the document, and they’ll be sent and
email with the link. Document changes will be tracked. It’s also a great
way of emailing documents to people without having to download it and
attach it to the email.
Another excellent reason to use online google docs is publishing it for others to view.
As for Google doc articles:
As for seminars on google docs:
Google Forms:
Google Forms is a product in the Google Apps. Google Forms can be used as a survey tool grading rubrics and quizzes.
Teachers can use Google Forms as a quick and easy way to grade
assignments, ensuring grades are neatly organized in a spreadsheet
automatically.
I used
google forms for creating a quiz. The best thing about the form is that
it is can be reused. Here are the quizzes I created on google forms.
Seminars on google forms:
As for Moodle:
Moodle is a class management system, a place where we can create
classes. It is like edmodo, nicenet and other platforms for class
management. It is widely popular as it is widely used and it is one of
the oldest and best platforms for creating and managing classes online.
As for articles on Moodle:
Seminars for Moodle:
Khan Academy
I am going to delve deeper on Khan Academy as I heard about it but knew
nothing. Reading and watching the seminars about the other tool and
this tool, I find it highly user friendly, students can use it for
self-study, collaboration and interaction, it also have exercises,
tutors, coaches, aspects which are not found in the other tools. They
can choose their own material or I can assign certain material. As for
the google docs they are for collaboration rather than self study, and
the google forms are also for collaboration, polls and quizzes. Moodle
is a class management system. I searched the web and found Khan Academy a
platform for self-education, resources that can be used by teachers
without even having an account. Anyone can also register with the
identity of an avatar to keep his identity and be at ease while working
on the site. The site is friendly user and I will use it for assigning
videos for improving their language abilities. The site also included
material on science, math, and SAT. English material found on the
website include videos, articles, exercises and programs. I was
impressed as it includes a lot of resources that will help me improve
the quality of my teaching and help my students improve their English
proficiency level.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere". The organization produces micro lectures in the form of YouTube videos. In addition to micro lectures, the organization's website features practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world.
The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to a father from Barisal, Bangladesh, and a mother from Calcutta, India. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MEng in electrical engineering and computer science), he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia who needed help with math using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided that it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube. The videos' popularity and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time, The project is funded by donations especially from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ann and John Doerr, the Brazil-based Lemann Foundation, and Google. In 2010, Google announced it would give Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100.
In 2012, Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein, left there and joined Khan Academy. In 2013, the Mexico-based Carlos Slim Foundation made a donation to Khan Academy to expand its Spanish library of videos.[12] In 2015, to enable anytime, anywhere learning for people across the world, AT&T contributed $2.25 million to Khan Academy to fund development of a new mobile learning platform and app.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere". The organization produces micro lectures in the form of YouTube videos. In addition to micro lectures, the organization's website features practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world.
The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to a father from Barisal, Bangladesh, and a mother from Calcutta, India. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MEng in electrical engineering and computer science), he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia who needed help with math using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided that it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube. The videos' popularity and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time, The project is funded by donations especially from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ann and John Doerr, the Brazil-based Lemann Foundation, and Google. In 2010, Google announced it would give Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100.
In 2012, Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein, left there and joined Khan Academy. In 2013, the Mexico-based Carlos Slim Foundation made a donation to Khan Academy to expand its Spanish library of videos.[12] In 2015, to enable anytime, anywhere learning for people across the world, AT&T contributed $2.25 million to Khan Academy to fund development of a new mobile learning platform and app.
In the
beginning, Khan Academy offered videos mostly about mathematics. Thanks
to donations, Khan Academy has been able to expand its faculty and offer
courses about history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics,
chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history,
economics, music, computer programming and computer science. In addition
to faculty, the organization has a network of content specialists.
Khan
Academy also has thousands of resources translated into other languages.
It launched the Spanish version of the website in September 2013 followed
by the Brazilian Portuguese, French and Turkish versions. It is
supported by partners and volunteers in languages including Indonesian,
German, Spanish, Czech, French, Italian, Swahili, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Xhosa, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Urdu,
Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, and Chinese. Khan Academy's
website has been translated to 23 languages and its videos to 65.
The Khan
Academy started with Khan remotely tutoring one of his cousins
interactively using Yahoo! Doodle images. Based on feedback from his
cousin, additional cousins began to take advantage of the interactive,
remote tutoring. In order to make better use of his and their time, Khan
transitioned to making YouTube video tutorials.Drawings are now made
with a Wacom tablet and before the free natural drawing application
SmoothDraw, but now Sal Khan uses ArtRage and recorded with screen
capture software from Camtasia Studio.
All
videos (hosted via YouTube) are available through Khan Academy's own
website (khanacademy.org), which also contains many other features such
as progress tracking, practice exercises, and a variety of tools for
teachers in public schools. Logging into the site can be done via a
Google or a Facebook account for those who do not want to create a
separate Khan Academy account. The material can also be accessed through
Khan Academy's own mobile applications, which can be found free of
charge in Google Play, App Store and Windows Store.
The videos
show step-by-step doodles and diagrams on an electronic blackboard.
Not-for-profit groups have distributed offline versions of the videos to
rural areas in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Khan
Academy also provides an adaptive web-based exercise system that
generates problems for students based on skill and performance. Khan
believes his academy presents an opportunity to overhaul the traditional
classroom by using software to create tests, grade assignments,
highlight the challenges of certain students, and encourage those doing
well to help struggling classmates.[9] The tutorials are touted as
helpful because, among other factors, they can be paused by students
while classroom lectures can not.
Khan Academy
has been criticized because Salman Khan does not have a background in
pedagogy. Statements made in some videos have also been questioned. In
response to these criticisms, the organization has fixed errors in its
videos, expanded its faculty and built a network of content specialists.
Others have presented data showing Khan videos are less effective than
those of other publishers and that the concept of chalk on a blackboard
is less engaging for students than other styles of video, such as
cartoons.
In 2010,
Khan Academy introduced badges as part of a program to promote
gamification of learning. There are currently 6 types.
The major components of Khan Academy include:
- a personalized learning engine to help people track what they have learned and recommend what they can do next
- a video library with over 6500 videos in various topic areas. These videos are licensed under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) 3.0 license.
- automated exercises with continuous assessment. The exercise software is available as open source under the MIT license.
The
students can either sign up in order to have an account or can even use
the platform as website to search material. As denoted I will give
students links to videos, articles, exercises, and programs to help them
learn and improve. I also ask them to comment on the
assignments to enhance their higher order thinking skills. As for the
problems I will face are the idea of internet access, as most students
live in villages and their parents have no subscription to the internet
so many students would not be able to access the site, but I believe
introducing them to this site is very important to their educational
development. Also students may find difficulty browsing the site so I
will schedule an extra session to introduce my students to the Khan
Academy.
As for the articles on Khan Academy:
Khan Academy Seminars:
Website:
As
for the process of how I found the articles/seminars to support my
report I searched google, educause, wikipedia and Utube. All of these
sites are helpful, but to get the whole picture you have to have a quick
look at each article and maybe read more than one article and watch
more than one seminar to get a big part of the whole picture. Yet,
really the best teacher ever is getting firsthand experience and new
ideas of using the tool.
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