C4T Summary Post

My assigned teacher for the past few weeks has been Joe Dale, his blog focuses on using ICT to enhance teaching. You can visit his blog here.

Easy classroom blogging with Posterous

In this post Joe gave very detailed instructions for creating a classroom blog. He specifically focused on the site Posterous, but the instructions could be easily modified for another blogging site. I thought this was a very useful blog and one that could come in handy for any teacher looking to set up a class blog. In fact, I'm saving this blog for when I start my own. He also has on there a podcast you can download about setting up a blog. One of his main objectives for doing this was to show the educational benefits a class blog can have. Check it out!


Listen, Speak, Read, Write Web!

In this post Joe spoke about a recent opportunity he had to go to Scotland and lead a national ICT event. He mostly spoke about using technology to enhance students' creativity and raise their standards. You can see a video of this workshop on his blog. In the first session he listed some helpful programs to enhance listening and speaking skills, such as audacity, and cue prompter. In the second session he focused on programs like Wordle to improve reading and writing skills. I think that both of these sessions can be extremely useful to the everyday teacher. Especially when enhancing listening skills! These sessions tackled big problem areas for schools and gave useful suggestions to improve those areas.