This website has some great tools and advantages. This site gives access to teachers and parents on free software available for educational use. This access allows free supplements for lessons and gives more activity ideas.
I will discuss some of my findings on this post.
The first category I clicked on was communication. I know that this is an important skill and wanted to know what was available to help. Under this tab was Skype, a webcam interaction with another person via webcam, and Google chat. These are interesting to the classroom. Maybe if we teamed up with a school from another country we could Skype and do lessons with them or have chatting be used as a form of pen pals. These are hesitant grounds though because of the dangers of skyping and chatting with people you do not know. If a student think it is fine to do at school and then tires to find a person to talk to at home this could be a situation for the school district. I think that there would have to be some parental consent but overall I think that these would be helpful tools in a classroom.
Under persuade was graphic organizers and persuasion maps. These are great tools for a classroom but I don’t know if I would classify them as software. These are more templates and ideas to use in classroom. Though these are useful materials I do not think that software is a good category for these items.
Brian storm and mind map had sites with templates for brain storming and mind maps. This again is not something I would classify as software but as templates for the classroom.
After looking over these tabs I did not find a lot of actual software and computer works but more documents and ideas to be used in the classroom. I guess this is something I did not consider to be software. But this does have a lot of great websites to use in the classroom and for parents to access for more information on classroom education.
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