For one of the discussion topics this week, I liked the question of whether you get ideas from tools, or choose tools to help execute your ideas? For me, I find that I use tools to help execute my ideas. I like to get familiar with a tool and then can play more with it to figure things out. With the tools, I can more easily determine what ideas I would like to propose. To help support learning activities, and I’m looking forward to learning more as I go along, but some of the ideas I have would be to utilize a variety of toolkit options for students to utilize for their assignments, readings, and lessons. One of the tools I’ve especially gravitated towards is inoreader for the blog posts. For me, I like it as I can keep everyone’s blog posts together on one page. As they come in, I can read them and can star them for ones I want to go back to at a later date. This could be valuable in a similar fashion to the weekly discussion threads in canvas, where things are held together in a single place that others students could more readily contribute to. For tools like Goodreads, I like the idea of having a more ‘general’ chat that students could post what they are reading for fun to unwind, and what readings they are finding more informative, and could post if they have specific questions to help facilitate a conversation. For a newer tool for the toolkit, Piazza can provide more of a ‘real-time’ experience with posts and questions from the professor and other students able to be asked and answered in one convenient place. I would use this as a means for students to bounce ideas off of each other and ask more pressing questions that they seek the answers to from other students and the professor. I look forward to thinking of other ideas as the rest of the semester progresses.
Let me know what you all think!
Lauren Horne, MS
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