Week 8 - 3 Important pages

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Posted by: Rozena Johnson

This website is specialized in helping users in casting a vote and making best choices for the options available to your class. The educator will put up a vote of selecting – for example – the class representative. Learners in return will submit via SMS who they choose as a class representative from the options available by submitting a vote through their mobiles.

This application will be used in my class in two ways. The first one is to post questions that allow students to submit their answer prior to joining class. The other way to use this application is by helping learners choose a place that we need to visit for more information about our course material.

www.instapaper.com

Posted by: Christian Russo

The mobile app Instapaper (www.instapaper.com) is designed to do just that. Instapaper is a straightforward and easy-to-use app that allows students to save and organize web pages for viewing later (even when students are not online). 

This application has very important uses. First of all, I will introduce it to my learners so that they can use it when doing their researches about sexual education. The other way to use this application is by creating a list of 10 most important websites that each learner has found important and beneficial for the class.

www.zondle.com

Posted by:Esther Armstrong

Zondle is a free online tool that can be used to create, play and share games to support online learning. 

This application is very important to my field of education. Sexual education does not have too many online applications that can help learners improve their understanding. I will use this application to design my games so that learners will access them. The other use of this application is to let my learners play online games together in order to challenge each other and then share their results in class. 

Digital Citizenship - Page 7

Digital Citizenship - Week 7

The first website is called my Learning Guide Program which can be visited at: http://www.mylgp.org.nz.

Learning Guide Protect (LGP): MyLGP is composed of bits of content to support digital citizenship programs. A bit is the name that the website uses to describe the parts that me up the website. The website is designed to help educational institutes implement the digital citizenship program (www.mylgo.org.nz). 

The reason I chose this website is because it provides its users with plenty of information that helps internet users understand the protocols of using the internet. As users post their comments, other users can see them and benefit from. I really felt that it is a big encyclopedia for digital citizenship.

I believe that the digital citizenship is considered to be an important topic to discuss with my learners in the first lesson. I teach a class of sexual education in which the standards of communication shall be defined in the first place. Digital citizenship is considered to be an important topic that I need to discuss. So, first of all I will ask my learners to explore this website and provide a description of how this website might be incorporated into our rules of communication.

Another way to use this website is to let learners provide 3 important links from this website that our class can benefit from. Each link shall be accompanies by a brief description.

Another website for digital citizenship is www.ikeepsafe.org. This website helps educators as well as parents educate their children about digital citizenship and how to use the internet in a safe way. The website is split into two major sections: one for parents and the other for teachers. The material in this website is being taught in a fun way.

I will utilize this website in my classes by letting each member in my class prepare a summary of how we can use Google and Google products in a safe way. Another way to use this website is by helping my learners prepare a learning guide for their kids on how to use the internet in a safe way by respecting others.

Open Education - WK 6

• MIT OCW

It was my first time that I find an easy way to search for open education information on the Internet. I always wanted to know about this thing but had difficulty searching for in Google. I decided to explore the MIT OCW  website. This page can be visited on the following website:

http://ocw.mit.edu/

The website is a professionally designed website which enables learners to explore course related material that is classified by department and then by topic, sub topic, and specialty. When visiting the course, other links like: syllabus, calendar, readings, lecture notes and assignments can be accessed.

I really want to use this course in order to advance my knowledge in several topics in my field (Social science). There are a lot of information that my learners would like to know and cannot be accessed with this easiness. So, I will require my learners to provide me with a summary journal on a social science topic that is relevant to what I teach in a course.

• Open Courseware consortium

This page can be accessed on this website: www.ocwconsortium.org

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. This website is similar to MIT’s website. The big advantage in this website is the sharing of information and the participation of several universities. So it offers a wide variety of thousands of courses.

I tried to research the sexual education topic, and I was very happy to find more than 10 courses that is relevant to my limited topic.

I chose this website because I believe that it is the biggest resource of OCW on the Internet. I also chose it because it offers resources in many different languages. I will use it in the following:

Obtain more information about my topic from other universities around the world.

Have my learners do researches on certain courses about the website in order to help my portfolio of sexual education.

Online Games and Simulators - WK 5

Online Games and Simulators for Sexual Education 

The first website is: http://sexetc.org/fun/condom-game/

The above website is an online puzzle game for the application of condoms. In this game, players will sort out the stages in which they are supposed to check for birth control appropriate directions.

This website helps learners get an idea of the proper ways to use the birth control technique. Players will be able to understand what to look for, how to use, and the right way to get rid of the birth control.

This application will be used in two ways. The first one, I will have my learners play this application while learning my course. Afterwards, each person is supposed to write a rationale of why they had to sort the eight steps of using the birth control in the way they thought it should be. Another way that I would use this application is to help my learners introduce this application to their classroom (my learners are either adult learners or educators who teach teenagers).

The second website is:

https://www.healthunit.com/adventures-in-sex-city

This game is an online question and answer game introducing general knowledge about sexual problems. With pictures attached to the game, Issues that are addressed in a true/False format: SDTs, preventive measures, and other educational information.

I chose this application because it introduces learners to a wide variety of ideas about sexual diseases and birth control methods. It also provides learners with information about each question that they get right or wrong.

This website will be used towards the end of my course. It helps learners get a rehearsal of some of the topics that we went over during the course.