A second session with Mrs. Mathis's class focused on the use of Trailfire. We discussed Web searches, creating bookmarks and reviewed the characteristics of Web2.0 tools. A discussion of trails and marks followed, as Trailfire was demonstrated and experienced.
"Trailfire is an easy way to organize and share things you find on the web. Mark a page that interests you by clicking a button in the toolbar then mark another page by clicking the same button again. Trailfire stitches them together to form a “trail” of marked pages. Leaving comments in the “marks” adds your ideas to each page along the trail. Without doing anything else we put your trails on our discovery site and make them searchable from Google. If you'd rather keep them private you can do that too."
The preservice teachers were assigned an Internet Scavenger Hunt, as a part of a curriculum Unit. They began to mesh together the new found tool and blaze a trail. Yahoo! In just a short time, emails arrived and the preservice teachers requested feedback on their new adventure.
Click Here to take a peek at Jennifer's Traifire called Farm Animals.
Click Here to view Ashley's Trailfire called Sensational Senses.
Click Here to view Myra's Traifire called Celebrations Around the World.
Feel free to make comments and post your trails for us to view.
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On Tuesday March 3, I visited Mrs. Melessia Mathis' Instructional Design V: Science and Social Studies class at Union University. These preservice teachers are involved in planning lesson plans for science and social studies. We reflected back into their instructional technology experiences (e.g., EDU250) and began to make possible connections of technology integration, as their lesson plans begin to unfold. |
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