Final Reflection 6711
I believe that Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences fits my beliefs in education. I believe that students need information delivered in different manners, depending on their learning style. As a teacher, I use a variety of techniques to allow all the students to learn. I have not changed my view of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences; however, from this course, I have added some great technology resources to help with the different learning styles and 21st century skills. In the student-centered classroom, the pupils create projects collaboratively and by themselves, based the student’s interest. They are provided explicit directions and a rubric to help understand my expectations of the project.
I have three new technology resources that I am going to use in the classroom immediately. This will allow the students to have a student-centered classroom and higher level thinking. I found several WebQuest that will work extremely well in my 6th grade history classes. I have also found several Virtual tours that I will use in the classroom to allow the students to build upon their prior knowledge and get an idea of what life was like back in time. The last resource is VoiceThread. All three of these resources will allow the students to use higher level thinking and different learning styles.
As a long term goal I would like to create my own WebQuest and have the students reflect upon their work, by using rubrics more consistently. I need to front lode the students with the proper tools and resources in order to allow them to be successful in their learning. In order to create my own WebQuest I will have to set aside time to learn how to create the WebQuest. Finding or working with a partner or history department would make this task a lot more manageable I plan to share my newfound information with the staff to spread the wealth of knowledge and excitement on technological resources available. We have staff meetings that I can share the information and eventually hold some classes to help teachers utilize the technological resources available.

Voice Thread in the Classroom,

This was the first time using Voice Thread. The accessibility and format is extremely easy to use. In fact, I did not encounter any problems with Voice Threading. I practiced with pictures that I already have stored on my computer. Next , I used pictures from pic search to create a Voice Thread about a problem in education. When the assignment was complete, I responded to other student's Voice Threads, which was another easy task. On this Voice Thread I used only the text device. Next time, I would like to use the audio device. I am hoping that Voice Thread is not blocked at my school.
I was thinking that this would be a great tool for students to construct a Voice Thread on a specific event in history,a famous person, invention, unsolved problem. The students could create a Voice Thread from a different point of view. Allowing the students to respond to each other is a great way to have peer feedback. The Voice Thread could be a collaborative project on various topics. The students are thinking at a higher level by analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating pertinent information.