Learning about how to incorporate interactive technology in the classroom was incredibly inspiring. It was exciting to participate in these interactive web tools as a class to not only see how it worked but also to learn by doing. Using websites like Prezi, Bubbl, Popplet, Titanpad, and Voicethread were interesting. However, throughout the entire session I kept on thinking about the students that I teach in my 6:1:1 class. Five out of six of my students have severe autism, and websites like Prezi and Titanpad would be too overstimulating for some of them. I very much enjoyed Popplet and Bubbl, because the concept maps that were created were simple to follow and made sense in a UD kind of way.
The more I think about it, though, the more I am interested in seeing some of my more computer and technological students play around with some of these tools. Perhaps I will give them iPads and log them into these programs and just see what happens with it. It would be a fun experiment for both me and my students to see what interests them and what works for them. Then, I can use these websites as great instructional AND adaptive technology tools.
I have students in my class whose writing skills are either nonexistent or in the very early stages. Using technology more often in the classroom will provide them more UDL and access to discussions and collaborations via these Web 2.0 tools.
Will you look at that? I began this post discouraged, and am leaving inspired! Let's go Web 2.0!
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