Portfolio Task 3

Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools

I have found a huge website called Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools. This is a website that is full of cool tools that can be very useful for students and teachers in school.

Here is the address:

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

You can can get help with ýour students presentations, images, drawings, research and much more from this website. Here is a list of tools that you can choose among:

• Presentation tools
• Collaborative tools
• Research tools
• Video tools
• Slideshow tools
• Audio tools
• Images tools
• Drawing tools
• Writing tools
• Music tools
• Organising tools
• Converting tools
• Mapping tools
• Quiz and poll tools
• Graphing tools
• Creativity cools
• Widgets
• Teachers Resources
• File Storage & Web Pages

This is a useful website for teachers who have a lack of own ideas. Any tools on the website contains many useful links to other sites. Under teachers resources there are many resources to choose among. Here is a list of teachers resources:

• Classroom resources
• Reading resources
• Oral and written language resources
• Mathematics Resources
• Science and social studies resources
• Inquiry Resources
• Health and Physical education resources
• ICT resources
• Foreign language resources
• Art and craft resources
• Quizze, games and activities
• Professional development
• Tests and assessment
• Planning and classroom management

I as a teacher can get help in many different ways through this website. It is a well filled website, but still easy to find what you are looking for. The website is easily foreseeable. The negative of the website is that it provides me with many choices and it can be difficult wich ones are best. I would really recommend this website, it is worth a visit.

Portfolio task 2

eTwinning - The community for schools in Europe

I would recommend a useful website for teachers who want to work internationally in their schoolwork. Maria Estling Vannestål (2009) writes in her book Lära engelska på internet about this organization, which is a part of a Comenius Programme of the European Commission. This website is for teachers who want to find partners in Europe to cooperate with. The website is full of information on how to find a suitable partner and information on how to move forward in their cooperation.

Here is the address:

http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm

On the eTwinning website you are able to search for schools, individuals and projects. You as teachers can choose what topic you want to work within and through this way find appropriate cooperative schools. You can choose which country you want to find a cooperative school in. There i a start page that helps the teacher with the most necessary details. You and your school must register and create your own eTwinning profile.

Here are some of the subjects available to choose among:

• Art
• Foreign language
• History
• Mathematics
• ICT
• Music

There are designed project kits for teachers who are looking for concrete ideas on how to implement a European collaborative project in their on school.

In inspiration you can choose among:

• Kits
• Moduels
• Gallery
• TwinSpace
• Subjects

eTwinning is a difficult webside to understand, much because I personally find it difficult to know how to get started with a collaboration with students in any other European country. It has taken me a long time to figure out how this website is working, but I know now that this website is very useful and valubale for teachers how want to work internationally. I have used this website in my ICT project.