Reflections On Educational Technology EDUC560

Google Drive is a free data storage service that offers up to 15 gigabytes of storage space. We can use to store important files, documents, pictures and many other forms of data. We can also access this data from anywhere through the Email. 

Blog is a personal space that we can share at our reflections, events, and work with other bloggers who are interested and follow us. Also, they can reflect to our posts and put their comments.  It can sort these data through pages, years of publishing, or titles that we  create to make it more easy to access.

Google documents can be used to create, edit, store and share many file types with other users online.It is easy to access any time we want and to communicate with other users to see their reflections and comments about these files.

Webinars are online lectures given by experts, where we are able to register them according to our interests and watch them to get the knowledge. Usually, after watching Webinars, a certificate of participation and sometimes a quiz will be sent.

Padlet is an important tool that can be used by students to share their notes and comments, rate or evaluate each other. They can use it as a brain storming activity and reflect on other activities.

Webquest is really important for teachers and students. For teachers, it is easy now to prepare and send detailed tasks for students to work on in a very easy way where it is available for them to use every thing they need within the pages. For students it is motivating for them to have such online tasks where they take different roles to accomplish in a creative way rather than just giving answers as books ask for. Although, books have valuable materials, Webquest bring it to life and prompt higher level thinking.













Rubistar is an interesting website that help teachers make rubrics that they need, in a way to help them communicate expectations with their students regarding an assignment, provide them focused feed back and grading the final product. Also, it useful for the students to clarify the standards of their performance by the listed criteria from excellent to poor. So, this site will help them to judge their performance in order to improve.

Scientific Posters are essential for presenting educational topics where it is designed to be informative and eye catching.This way it will enhance the interaction between the presenter and the audience and thus affects positively the understanding of topics.

This software is very important in teaching where teachers will be able to make flip-charts using different resources within the software application as well as from the internet and thus, they can enhance any lesson by adding interactive components to the lesson. Students also will interact with a relevant flip-chart that was created specifically for that subject and topic.