Chapter7 Jonassen

This chapter is full terrific resources to draw from to use with students in classrooms or in a professional development arena. Some I have tried with my students like Moodle Forums, podcasts, and concept maps. I created in account through Epals last summer to try to develop an electronic link for students when we begin our writing unit that focuses on letter writing. I also thought it had real potential to give the kids a global perspective to the world they live in. This is all still percolating for next term. I did note that ePals also offers a Blogging feature that allows them to write to other kids about things they are interested in finding out about all within a "protected envir0nment" (p.146 - Jonassen). This might jump start my project because I see the benefits this feature may have to motivate my reluctant writers (the ones who hate writing becasue the fine motor is not there yet or are hesitant to mis-spell) and the fact that kids could see others kids perspectives from around the world.