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Sunday 29 April 2012

 Getting Organized
  This week we are organizing our information and also our ideas. It is  like when you are changing season and you reorganize your wardrobe to have everything prepared for the new season.

We are stepping stones to our final project writing parts of it every week and during this week we had the opportunity to read previous students' projects. I have always wanted to SEE how teachers expected my work to be like and I have never had the chance before so for me, this is a great advantage! Not only because we have the possibility to read how the different parts of the project were written by other students but also have  because we can read what others are facing in their countries, the different characteristics of students, their needs and how teachers managed to help them.

I think there are some issues that are international. Everywhere there are teachers with no resources, mixed ability classes and students who need help in a certain area.

The creativity teachers have is what makes the difference and being enrolled in this course means that we do care, we want to help our students and we want them to succeed. 

We have also organized information. We have created Delicious stacks where we can add bookmarks to have them handy. We can write information about the web page and a picture of the page is shown next to the description. Really useful because you know you will never loose the sites you want to remember and you can access them from different computers. 

But I want to talk about a similar web page where you can also add bookmarks and organize them like a board of tiles. Symbaloo is the name of the site.

Click this photo to see a colleague's webmix. Her name is Elodie Largeron and she saved really great web pages. 


This is one I am trying to create.


As I am a visual learner I love the way you can see how they are organized and the colours help to categorize them
Try it, you won´t regreat!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Andrea, Symbaloo is a great tool and I am thinking about ways of using it more in my teaching. I also like your metaphor of organizing the closet. Nice journal entry. Robert

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