Hi everyone,

It was fascinating to read technology in education blogs and I really want to share the information 

with all of you.

The Cool Cat Teacher blog is mainly about encouraging teachers to improve education. I really liked the post about note taking- What makes “good notes.” What do they write down? How should notes look? If you think that note taking skills are just automatic, you are wrong. The writer advices teachers to encourage pupils to use visual note taking, means to draw instead of using words only. She also writes that the Using symbols, notes and such can help connect ideas in powerful ways. 

The Edudemic blog aims to connect education and technology. I enjoyed reading the interesting post about the best ways to use Google in the classroom. We all know that Google is a source of information but it is not only that. It also enables us to use lots of tools that can improve our lessons in the classroom. A very good idea that I read about in this post was to use Google in order to organize and create, for instance you can create a calendar that your students, their parents, and other classrooms can have access to. There, you can set up Assignments deadlines, tasks, and event notifications. In addition, you can indicate times you are available for student-teacher conferences. Moreover, teachers can use Google docs for having students to create collaborate on a paper, play or other project. It can also allow teachers to see a writing project in progress so they can recognize where students may get stuck.

The last blog that I chose is Klein spiration blog. I liked the post about the app that makes group work manageable. According to this post, group projects help students develop life-long skills, particularly strong communication skills and ability to take responsibility and ownership of their contribution. This magnificent app is called Ignite Teaching and by using it, students can work together with several people from the class. In addition, teachers are able to see to what extent each pupil has contributed to the project.

I learned all these great ideas from reading the posts in these blogs, hope you enjoyed reading it and expanded your knowledge regarding technology in education.