What I found out about Inspriation is that this would be a very useful tool for my history students. Since students have to do a lot of writing it would be very helpful to hava a tool that can help students write more clearly and accurate. I also liked the fact it can help with research and streamline projects. This will be very important when students have large assignments to complete. I will most likely use this product in most of my lesson plans. Not only will it help simplify the assingment it will also help make the task less stressful for the students. If students know that there is a tool availiable to help ease their work load they will be more likely to use and benifit from it.
Some of the activities I would use would be time lines, graphs, outlines, power points, etc to name a few. Since I plan on being a history teacher I a wide range of opportunities to use technology in my classroom. By using some of these tools it can help students get a better understanding of the subject and help them get use to putting their thoughts on paper. By using time lines and outlines the students will be working documents with the information right there in front of them. The technology that could help students get them started just might would be the use of concepts maps. I found this to be very helpful. I myself used this in order to get my ideas started. Now when it is time for feedback peer reviews are only as good as the students are. If the student do not have a good understanding of the topic then the review would not help much, so what I would like to do is assing my future students to read their peers paper during one class period and on the next one I would like to go to the computer lab and have them look up the topic for accuracy. Once this is done then I would have them talk about each others papers, discuss what they could have done better, was it fine, what errors they found and hopefully by doing this they will get a better understanding of the subject.
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