Day+7

__ Day 7 - Technology Part 2 __
I really enjoyed today's class. It was based on using different tools in the classroom. I think the amount of time that Robin gave us to do each activity was sufficient.

Most effective to least effective tool:
 * 1) ** Interactive tools (Gizmos) **
 * Gizmos are mostly free or in our case were given a password to access it
 * It can be used for single topics, such as dividing fractions, to easily learn material with an activity
 * Teachers can challenge their students with activities that will make them investigate the nature of the concept using the Gizmo at hand
 * 1) ** Video mini clips (Sum & Product Video) **
 * Videos can be stimulating, insightful and fun to be used as a "minds on"
 * sometimes they can be instructional videos to refresh teacher memory (Khan Academy videos)
 * Students gain a visual focus from videos (what and why are we doing this)
 * Disadvantages: it can take a long time to prepare your own out-of-class video
 * 1) ** Collaboration tools - wikis, blogs, facebook, twitter, skype, etc **
 * social networking tool
 * Can reflect about mathematical experience, make groups for discussion, create blogs about class
 * Can incorporate these tools in the classroom since students are using them outside of class time
 * Disadvantage: students may get off task, and it may be difficult to monitor their work
 * 1) ** Production tools - google docs, youtube, prezi, wordle **
 * Students can use these tools for class work presentation
 * This tool didn't impress me as much, since I knew all of them already excited