Final: Semester Favorites

This semester I learned a lot in technology class.  Reflecting back on all the wonderful resources I was exposed to I would say that Prezi and ToonDoo would be the two resources I enjoyed and will actually use in my classroom.  Prezi is this website were you can create a presentation using a canvas were you can organize text, video, and images to follow a certain path.  During the week we discussed Prezi we also discussed challenge based learning.  This is where students create videos or different presentations and challenge their classmates to become better citizens by doing certain tasks.  You can find a description of the project here.

In class our team focused on tornado safety.  Our  challenge was to have students come up with their own family/household emergency tornado plan.  This is what our final presentation looked like:

Tornado Safety on Prezi

 I enjoyed Prezi so much that I actually used it for another presentation I did in my seminar.  The focus of this presentation was to talk about the different diversities.  Our group choose the topic of exceptionalities and  focused on Autism.  This is the Prezi we presented; I was actually in charge of putting it together and I'm really proud of how it turned out:

Autism on Prezi

The other resource I enjoyed was  ToonDoo.  This is a website were students can create comic strips.  I found that it can really reinforce certain concepts that students are learning.  Many times concepts can be too abstract, but if students get to break them down and put images to words they are able to really understand things.  For example, the comic strip I created was about the U-Curve of Cultural Adaptation.  There are four stages: Honeymoon, Hostility, Humor, and Home.  In the first stage the person feels euphoria, in the second they feel anxiety, in the third they feel rejected, and in the last stage they adjust the the new cultural.  All of this information is presented in this comic strip:

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