One collaboration tool I feel teachers should utilize for themselves and with their students is Drop Box. Drop Box makes sharing, collecting, and organizing documents and files easy. One of the great benefits of Drop Box is its accessibility. I love the fact that all my files can be accessed from any place with Internet connection. You can pull up your stored files from Drop Box simply by going to the website. Their is a Drop Box app as well making this application even more convenient. I would use Drop Box in my class as a computer teacher by having my students save their projects. This is useful since it would allow my students to continue working at home as oppose to saving on our school drive. I will also utilize Drop Box to save my lesson plans, share with colleagues, and compile my lesson material for each year.
Another application I found useful was Wordle. Worlde is an application used to create artistic word clouds. It can be used with any subject, topic, or theme. This application is very appealing to students of all ages. You simply type in a word list, hit create, and the program rearranges the words in a word cloud display. I like that you have the option to personalize your cloud with different colors and fonts. I would use Wordle in my class to reinforce typing skills. I can give them a word list and see how fast they can type them accurately. Then, as a reward they can see the displayed word cloud. I can also use this to teach vocabulary. We can create a word list from computer vocabulary such as monitor, desktop, mouse, etc. Then, type them up in Wordle. I like both of these applications because they are user friendly, which is a big concern when working with technology in education. Each of these applications can be easily navigated and applied in classrooms of all ages.
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