Monday, March 8, 2010

Concept Maps

Communication and creativity can be supported by concept maps for student tools. With concept makes the student as well as the teacher can communicate through links to other pages that give helpful information. Another thing that is a helpful tool to the students with concept maps is creativity. When doing concept maps students have the ability to be as creative as they would like to be. Creating planning maps to help with lessons can allow the teacher to explore different website in which the teacher can experience different types of technology. By the teacher doing planning maps prior to teaching a lesson the teach is a lot more prepared when it comes to teaching. I learned several different things when doing these maps that helped me to meet goals to display technology in the maps. One thing is that the links in the concepts maps should be interactive websites in which the students have the ability to learn other things related to the topic in which is being discussed. Also when creating the concept maps I learned that finding pictures to use that are free domained which can be used are very hard to find.