Week 5, Reflection 4, Group 4 Tools

This post is about a few open ended ICTs tools. I really wanted to have a go at using Museum Box but I was unable to even sign up for an account to use it. You have to be a teacher with a school and then you have to pay for a subscription so I was pretty disappointed. I had even thought of how i could have used it in a music classroom. I could talk about instruments and divide them into their groups on each individual box so woodwind and brass for example. I could then have pictures of each woodwind instrument and then some information relating to the instrument. Here is an example of a Museum Box on jazz:

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/viewer/show/233295

Moving on to Google Maps, this tool would be great for History or Geography classes however in my music classes it wouldn't be as useful. The examples I can think of that would benefit from Google Maps is making a Map timeline following a musician and their journey. So you would begin with where they were born, then where they first went to develop their musical abilities and then where they traveled throughout their career. I did attempt to make a map for this blog post however i found it to be difficult. The new version of Google maps wouldn't let me make a map so I Google searched how to create a Google map and found a video on how to. However I was unable to make the map because there wasn't the right links and buttons to make the map.