All academic benefits aside, I enjoy using them with my students, as I like the variety of products I get to see and (in more cases than pen-and-paper assessments) enjoy! Overall, I think they motivate my students more, as well as myself. It’s more fun to do something current and keep things fresh for all involved. That being said, I see downfalls from time to time. The biggest one is the managing of time. Many of my students will waste time like there’s no tomorrow. I could have a Glog for them to work on, and some could be trying to listen to music, look at classified ads, or play some online game. I often ponder taking away the Internet from their software or inventing a device that only does academic tasks…<\/p>\n
In all seriousness, I like the creativity involved with these products, the convergence of different media on them, the sharpening of students’ technology skills in using them, and the different displays of understanding \u00a0\/ learning.<\/p>\n
What would I like to see more of? I’m kind of liking what I’m seeing from Museum Box (I just signed up last week), and am intrigued by Mahara (it looks somewhat similar). I like how it marries images, text, video, and sound, and makes them look tangible in cube (literal learning objects, in a sense) form. The site is good now, but a tweaked Museum Box (or something new yet similar) could be very useful for many different projects. For example, I am getting my students to create a Museum Box based on the last novel we read. They are selecting objects they see as important from the text and are justifying \/ explaining their choices.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/museumbox.e2bn.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U6fDRktWIGg<\/a>\u00a0 In my teaching, I have used several PBA’s, even in just the last couple of years: Blogger and WordPress VoiceThread Webquests Glogster Museum Box ToonDoo, BitStrips, and Pixton All academic benefits aside, I enjoy using them with my students, as I like the variety of products I get to see and (in more cases than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-10-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/files\/2011\/11\/museum-box-300x148.jpg\")
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