Elizabeth Day 6

Topics that we discussed today in ICT in Education:

- "We learn best when we create artifacts of our learning, even better when we share and discuss with others"
-  Using multi-media to teach required curriculum can help deliver a more meaningful educational experience for our students.
- We went through the process of adding a "Links List" to our blog pages. A "Links List" is a tool that you can use to add links on your Blogger page. We labeled our lists as "Lesson Resources" where we can add the links to pages that will be useful for planning our lessons. I like this feature because when I am planning, I tend to forget the names of useful websites that I used before. This feature is nice because I can add all the links that I find useful, but also as I stumble across new websites that I like and would like to revisit, I can edit and add those links as well.
- We also explore the Google Drawings feature. By making an editable document, it allows all students to access the document and add drawings or ideas. This feature would be useful for collaborating ideas into one central document, and a plus, it's paperless!
- Google Earth
- We explored the process of creating a personalized Google Map. Once you have opened Google Maps, you look to the left hand side for an overflow icon that will open a menu. You will look for an icon that is labeled "Your Places" and when you click on it you should see four different options: Labeled, Saved, Visited, and Maps. Click on maps and at the very bottom of this list (should be an empty list if you have not created maps before) you should click a link called "Create Map". By clicking on the name of map, it allows you to edit the name of your map and add a description. Once you have created a map, you can drop or create "points" on your map and label them as well. This App could be used in Geography, Social Studies, or even Math! I think I would incorporate this tool in a math lesson to provide students with a visual aid for calculating distances from one place in the world to another. This tool can also provide some of my students that have not been out of the community or past Thompson. I could use this to give these students visual interpretation of how far away our community is from others but also to let them explore the maps that they create and explore and expose them to other places virtually. This could almost work like a virtual field trip or even help to plan an actual field trip!! 
- Once you have created and published (public to the internet) a map, then you can click the top overflow icon on the left hand side and choose the option "embed to my site". By clicking this, you should see a box pop up with a highlighted code. Ctrl = C while the code is highlighted and this will copy your code to the clipboard until you paste it in your desired website. This will allow the people visiting the website to view your map on your blog or wherever you would like to post your map to.