My Portfolio Tasks
1. For
three years ago I started a tutor blog in order to inform parents a little bit
more about what we were doing in school and to tip the families of all the
various things you could do in Stockholm. We have over 60 museums, several nature
reserves, you can actually fish salmon in the central of our capital, and how
many cities in the world are you able to do that? And of course the local
attractions such as Sky view, Globen, city hall and the castle. This is the
blog http://blackfisken.blogspot.se/.
My thought was also to let the children write there and use it instead of the
traditional letter that I wrote every week. I liked to write on the blog but it
took a lot of time, and it was not supported by my boss to do this in my work
time. The problem then was also that I didn’t have access to a computer of my
own in school so I had to bring my own with me from home to do this. I hope that I someday will have the time to
make a running blog since I see a lot of purposes with it. Dudeney, G and
Hockly, N ( 2007) states that there are some obvious advantages to using blogs
in the classroom since it is a real chance for the children to practice on
their written English.
2. Skype is
quite a new tool for me. I met the tool during this course and when my daughter
got sick in December it became a fantastic way for her to keep in touch with
the school topics and her fellow students. Since she was to sick to go to
school and to sick to have home teaching
she came up with the idea by her self that maybe a teacher could use
Skype to teach her 1 hour a day. And sometimes she can participate in group
activities in the school with her friends this way. So I take this with me as a
teacher and will keep it in mind if a pupil of my own should get really sick.
3. Dudeney,
G and Hockly, N (2007 page 62) states that Email is one of the most used and
useful ICT today. As a teacher I get a huge amount of emails every day, most of
them sadly is just junk mails and sometimes I find it difficult to pick over my
inbox what to read and not. I know that reading, sending and deleting emails
take a lot of time for me as a teacher it takes about 3 hours a week actually.
But then I think of what the option is, to write a letter, find an envelope, the
address, a stamp and go to the letterbox. Now you can write and send a letter
in a very short time. Using email I can send information to all my class
parents by just one click.
4. Smart
board is a tool that I hope to get into my classroom in a close future. There
is so much you can do if you have access to this tool. If you are talking about
a flower that the children doesn’t know you can find a picture of it and show
it to all the children at the same time, today I have to use my own smart phone
or computer , find the picture and then show each and everyone of the
children two at the time. Smart board is
an ICT tool that would really save me lot of time.
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