Online Learning Experiences

What content could this help you teach?
-One site I could use was a virtual field trip site to Hawaii. My students are doing WebQuest to research a state in the United States. The student exploring Hawaii could use this site as another resource.
-This virtual field trip site gives resources for fossils and earth science which is a 4th grade content expectation.
-Students are learning about the solar system and NASA has a site that can be used with many opportunities for exploration since there is videos, maps, graphs, and pictures.
-Online geography games is a site I have actually already used with my students.

What type of pedagogical strategies might you use with your students?
-Some would include: collaborating assignments with peers, discussion, case study, inductive, deductive, inquiry, identify main idea, write a summary, compare/contrast, cause/effect.

What technologies do you think would be harder to use with your students? Why?
-I think that my students would have difficulty using sites where you have to create your own password since you need an email to do so and my students do not have one. Sites need to be available to my students and navigation needs to be clear and organized. When I link a site to my Moodle page students are able to click on the link instead of having to type in the web address or searching it. Sites with videos, maps, questions, quizzes, and step by step directions are best for my students since they keep them interactive and on task.

Wiki experience

I had worked with wikis during a class during my student teaching year as I was in a group that was doing a presentation on balanced literacy. I remember MSU College of Education technology support staff coming into our class and helping us set wikis up and talked about their use and possibilities. However, I have not since ten ventured in to create and update my own. I found it simple to create and manage. I just would like to use it with a focus. It might be for my professional MSU masters, my classroom, or another purpose.
My wiki link: https://msuteacher.wikispaces.com/

It was interesting to search and look for my school on Wikipedia. I found the community website. I added content on what the school mascot was for the high school. http://screencast.com/t/GIpEhJzPUNi

Universal Design for Learning and my MERLOT lesson

As a reflection on this process of reviewing my lesson plan using Universal Design for Learning it was a great moment of checking for best practice. The checklist that I completed was a great tool I plan to use as keep handy when I plan for lessons on the weekend. I was pleased to see that overall objectives were met, opportunities for sharing and reflection were possible, and multiple applications were set in place. However, some auditory supports were not in place for some of my students that are not reading at grade level and there was not a opportunity to apply the Wordle knowledge to another site such a Word Clouds.
The linked checklist above is divided by the larger print being the items that were applied in my lesson using UDL. The smaller bold print was the barriers and set backs that were not in my lesson.
I also went through the actual lesson that was uploaded to MERLOT and commented on the actual places were UDL was found.