Technology that Supports eLearning (#10)

Egbert, J. (2009). Supporting learning with technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

The chapter “Supporting Student Production” provides information on potential student products and the steps that could be used to create the products. Recently, in one of the elementary classrooms in which I teach, the students created poster boards on historical figures. That information could have been created with Microsoft Word with hyperlinks to specific data within a student folder, much like the example of the Peru project on page 194. By using technology, the project storage and transportation issues would not exist. I think this chapter is a wealth of information on projects that could work in my upper grades (3-5) classrooms. These presentation techniques would also adapt well to the distance learning environment, and be excellent tools for students to demonstrate learning.