Examine and evaluate usability other Web 2.0 tools that can either be used for professional development purposes, personally, or to specifically enhance your classroom lessons/learning environment where you: engage your diverse students, enable students to create artifacts representing what they are learning, help to promote higher level thinking, add diverse voices, gain different perspectives, encourage a community of learners to explore and discover by using web tools such as: Infographics/Word Clouds, Podcasts, Productivity applications, ipads for education.

Examine and evaluate usability other Web 2.0 tools that can either be used for professional development purposes, personally, or to specifically enhance your classroom lessons/learning environment where you: engage your diverse students, enable students to create artifacts representing what they are learning, help to promote higher level thinking, add diverse voices, gain different perspectives, encourage a community of learners to explore and discover by using web tools such as: Infographics/Word Clouds, Podcasts, Productivity applications, ipads for education.

After looking over the list of technologies below. Choose (at least) 2-3 and for each one focus on the:

What is

When/How can teachers use (ie. pd, classroom application- create meaningful tasks, connect tech tools to skills)

Include suggestions for both synchronous and asynchronous implementation

Why is useful

Connection to Technology and 7 Principles of CRT

Add to your personal resource chart/table/document started in assignment 2.2

Does this use of technology help support the full human talent development of every student, and all groups of students? Or not?

o How is the technology being used to extend the curriculum so that students are exposed to a diversity of experiences, scenarios and representations?

How to Get Started with

Where can someone find more information about .

After sharing your two technologies:

(If possible), implement in learning environment, personally or for professional development purposes. Reflect on the success of the implementation to further fine tune/or revise use for now or future. Discuss ways to gauge success of implementation of equitable practices. What might you see and hear happening?

Provide colleagues with personal suggestions, insight and feedback on their choices being mindful that feedback should be productive and professional and exemplify the qualities of a brave learning environment.

***WEBSITES TO USE

108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 2

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/07/50-educational-podcasts-for-teachers.html?m=1

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/teachers-guides-on-use-of-ipad-in.html

https://digitalmaestro.org/google-docs

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