REFLECTION
October 4, 2012
Tonight’s class was enlightening!!!
Learning to blog is kinda’ cool! What a great way to share our thoughts,
ideas, creative endeavours and quest for knowledge in the area of Assistive
Technology. I have only attended two
classes and have learned so many ways I can make learning easier for
individuals with limitations. Learning
should be easy! Learning should be fun!
Learning should be a life long pursuit!
If we can put tools in the hands of kids that make learning fun and
easy, then learning WILL become a life long pursuit!
iAuthor!!! Another
amazing application from the brilliant minds at Apple! Creating books is easy, fun, engaging, useful,
interactive, individualized and most of all informative!!! As I think back to the days when I taught
english I can recall the children’s book assignment students used to
complete. They loved the project, from
the brainstorm, the first draft, the numerous revisions to the illustrations
and the final product. I can only
imagine what the project would have been like with this program!!!
I could see myself, or teachers within CAMS, using iAuthor
for the following:
- Creating a student handbook all about CAMS.
- Developing our CAMS staff handbook.
- Newsletters home could be done in the form of a book with various editions or chapters.
- Great way to promote Social Media Awareness and how to protect yourself on line.
- Welcome book to CAMS for incoming grade six parents and students.
- Using it as a final assessment for a topic covered in class. It can include interactive features as well as information gathering questions.
- Great way to make study notes for a topic.
- Cool way to promote your school on our website. Visitors could be taken on an interactive tour of what CAMS is all about.
- Social stories!
- Great way to promote inquiry based learning – imagine what they could create from one “Big Question.”
How to use iAuthor!
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