Kimberly

Please visit my wikispace at: http://edu573kp.wikispaces.com (you may need to copy and paste into your address bar)

I really enjoyed making this and it can surely be used in my classroom, or at least when my class visits the computer lab. For this particular wiki, my class is learning how to keep their body healthy and the food pyramid. We are using the A-Z list to review some important words and/ phrases to later put together a great informative essay. I have posted what we have already added to our A-Z list, and would invite the students to add words to the list. Eventually, I think that I would like for them to create their essay here. I could use this in every class for homework assignments, and have them submit there assignment on the page. I would like to use this for every subject but maybe keep it in class until I see that the students really get the hang of it and then use it as a homework site as well as in class. Once I got the hang of wikispace, i really enjoyed it. I will possibly use it in personal like as well to show off my little girl who is growing so fast so that the peolpe that do not get to see her all the time, can do so on here.

PODCAST... I apologize that I was not able to upload my MP3. Podcasting is a great and interesting tool. The content of the ELT podcast can be extremely helpful. I especially liked the songs for EDL learner and the phonetics and pronunciation podcast ideas listed in the article. When children record their voice they can hear if how they are speaking, if its clear and if they are pronouncing their sounds correctly. they can also hear how the person speaking sounds and how to correctly pronounce sounds and words. I have never heard of this before for teachers yet I think now that I know, I will be using some of the directorys that were given such as podcastally.com. Since the world is so technologically advanced nowadays, I think the children will love to use the computer to complete an assignment. I know I love taking online courses better than being in class. It just makes it more interesting to me. Most of my students have very low motivation but using this as well as voicethread and wikispace they may just buy into it. I also like that by using this I will have the ability to assign different tasks to different level students because my class is made up of three different levels.