I remember the demo group made up of Jingyi, Deborah and Samantha, very much as the aftermath of the their ICT tool demo is still resonating in my memory with the super high pitched soprano singing. I find their tool very impressive when they first introduced as it is really a cool tool which allows students to make their own opera. The tool is so accessible and ready-made that even me, an art cs based teacher, is very tempted to use.
http://classicalkusc.org/kids/opera/base.htm
The second group of Isa, Bryan and Carmen continued to surprise and wow-ed me with their demo presentation of their ICT tool. Their website introduced was extensively informative about how a symphonic band can be formed and there are certain background history that comes along. I am constantly fed with information that tags along a learning point from an interactive widget. I think I am very well fed with interesting trivia and relative learning widgets.
www.sfskids.org/
Session 8
I have unfortunately arrived to class exactly one minute late and hence I missed out on the first group's demo presentation of their ICT tool. But later on I heard from Wei, Miin and my other classmates that their tool presented was very intriguing and sounds very likely to be engaged in their future teaching career. I took a look of their lesson plan on pb wiki and the brief introduction on the tool, Edmodo. I think their interface is strangely familiar to the all time popular social website, Facebook, except it is for educational purpose. I think the tool is pretty cool too cause the students may get interested too cause they may give it a chance since it looks like the website they love to visit everyday.
I saw the second group's introduction on this tool called the wiggio. I find the interface very messy. It is potentially a good tool to loop in all my students on the same pace as me as I consolidate or build up my lessons. It is messy as there are too many things one can do with the website. It becomes so on-the-ball that one might get disorganized despite all the widgets and tools on the website is to help organize lessons or meetings or notes.
Interestingly enough, none of them would be a tool that I think is not that worthy for the students to try during our cs based lessons. I personally felt that all four groups were great in picking out all these tools, but probably we need to really revise and think about how to tie in with our syllabus and how it can be a tool that will let the students takeaway some knowledge at the end of it all which they can not get in classroom context.
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