Qwiki

Dr. Smirnova just presented us with a new website called Qwiki. This website is pretty cool. It is like an online powerpoint, but jazzed up quite a bit. Infact, although it uses slides, it reminds me more of a video type format to use. Dr. S. chose the topic Green Revolution. For myself, if I were to use this website, I think I would like to use it for Social Studies- maybe when teaching the American Revolution or even  topics such as the the journey along the Underground Railroad. I think this would be a GREAT tool to use for Social Studies. It gives students a visual and has the audio at the same time. I would then supplement this with a video about the particular subject. Maybe I would begin the lesson with a video and then use this website as a conclusion piece. I think it would work very well. I liked the website overall. The only thing that I wish was different would be if the teacher could record the audio. It seems as though the computerized woman's voice is all that is available. That is a minor adjustment that I think the website should consider.Other than that, I liked the website and would use it in a classroom.