There and back

This weeks activity was to select 2 technologies from group 4. These could vary drastically in technological uses. The two technologies selected was that of Google Maps And adobe Flash. Both of these tools would be helpful in the classroom, firstly that of Adobe flash, flash is a great tool that allows students to create their own little animation to tell a story or just to have fun on. When I created my own flash animation, I found that it was fun, enjoyable and easy to manoeuvre around. The program allows simple and complex animation to occur. Adobe Flash allows students to express themselves in a new and exciting way, whilst still allowing the student room to learn new life long skills and have fun whilst doing so. Adobe flash could be used for example to teach students about the many countries around the world by "taking" them there. Which I believe would be very beneficial as a teaching tool within the classroom.

The second tool used was that of Google maps, which allows students to view the many amazing aspects of our beautiful world. Firstly, my experience with using google maps was that of confusion to start as to how to actually pinpoint locations etc etc, with me never having used Google Maps before, however within 10 minutes I was pinning and everything which was great. I believe this tool would be awesome to use in the classroom, by allowing students to share where they have travelled, where they may like to travel, or even use this tool in lessons, for example teaching about religion, when Moses took the slaves across the desert, which could be shown on google maps how far a distance that is. Therefore I believe that not only can both tools be used within the classroom, I also believe they are fun, interactive ways for students to have fun whilst learning, and hey who says it can't fun for the teacher as well? 

Overall, I believe that both tools Allow teaching to occur using digital pedagogy, whilst allowing the student/s and teacher, have fun and enjoy their learning journeys in the classroom.