Reflection6

Mod 6 Reflection:

For Mod 6, I enjoyed learning about DuckDuckGo, the search engine Katie and I chose for our 6_1 digital commercial. It has a lot of great features. I will be using it in the future personally, if not professionally. While completing the commercial I learned there are ways to get around roadblocks. For example, figuring out how to add voice narrative to Sliderocket without having to pay the upgrade fee. I was also excited when I discovered the wealth of widgets available on the internet and how easy they are to access for the most part. I look forward to having some fun with widgets in the future. Honestly, I wasn't that enthused about the kid search engines because I'm not an elementary teacher, so they don't really interest me. But as always, I discovered new ideas and resources for teaching from this mod. For example, I really like the idea of using Twitter to have students participate in a historical figure mystery activity or other activities in social studies as found on the Ergo website through this mod's playlist. I also got some really great resources for my 11_1 research from searching DuckDuckGo and checking out some infographics mentioned in the class discussion forum.

Thanks for finding value beyond those less relevant kid tools, Jen. joyce