Module 5: Activity 2 - Experiencing Educational Software

There are numerous software that can be utilized to help me teach  and also help my students to learn important concepts and You Tube is one such software that I use almost on an everyday basis. It offers hundreds of suggestions for the topics being searched for and the teacher's or student's discretion is used to find the most suitable information. It shows a myriad of examples to any concept that is being taught. I would recommend this site as it acts as a live teaching aid to complement any lesson. After learning particular concepts, for example in Math, it is necessary for students to practice so that the skill that they are learning becomes natural. Two other software that can be used here are Math is Fun, which also has a tutorial on the given topic, and Super Teacher where there are numerous printable worksheets to work with.

Module 5 -Reflection on the value of social bookmarking

I have to admit that I taught myself bookmarking websites by accident using the google bookmarking tool. I must say that it made my task of locating useful websites very easy and manageable especially when I use these sites regularly. No longer do I have to create a new search for lost sites that I had visited before. It basically has the same concept of marking a page in a book that you are resting down for a while so that it is easy to find. It also makes sites more readily available to share with others in a group. Diigo is quite new to me and it took some time for me grasp it. The websites that I more than often bookmark are sites that contain worksheets, especially Math and Grammar,  information for the notes subjects, and videos and PDFs to act as visual aids for the various subject areas. I also use it for my personal benefits such as finding sites with the best recipe for making Italian meatballs or pineapple upside down cakes.