Google forms are another excellent way to share with a colleague information to have at your finger tips wherever there is internet access. Students will love using their voting eggs to answers questions as a class or even during a workshop. Here's my summer vacation survey, feel free to log in and respond.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Tool # 4 When "Google it" became a verb
I have loved using Google Docs with my students this year for all the reasons the blog assignment listed. It is so easy to create a document and then with one click (not multiple steps) the students have access to the information. I used this the most with workshop assignments. It is easy to give step by step directions, then have the students follow along with the document. Students love being able to interact with each other and see the comments they add with the sidebars. Although I did not use this feature as much, I look forward to using it with students in writing.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tool # 3 Publishing with the outside world in mind, but within the law
After teaching 4th grade for the last six years I am excited about my move to 2nd grade! The problem is I am not yet familiar with the content to look up videos for the students to use. Discovery education has been a HUGE resource for my workshop where students watch the videos and then respond. I am excited to see how students will now be able to use the i touch as well to be more personal in their learning. The videos I posted are amazing simple ways that we can enhance our teaching with students. Give it a try yourself....
Super Brain Yoga-Waking our brain up for better learning
Right or left brain teaching? Are we doing a disservice to our students?
Copyright laws are important and often forgotten by teachers as the internet has so many easy to reach and useful tools. The biggest thing to remember is if teachers and students are using the inforamtion to teach or demonstrate learning they are probably pretty safe.
Although I am having trouble with Picasa so can not play with the remix, I did find this posting on one of the blogs I follow. I haven't checked out all of the details, but it looks like something I have tried in my classroom. Hooray for teachers with students who blog!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tool #2 Building community :)
The blogging world can be very private if you want it to be, which then almost become a "scrapbook" in a way and underminds the concept of social networking. With building community by reading other blogs and commenting on other's posts we are engaging the community of learners/educators in tasks that we already preform on a daily basis. The difference with blogging is instead of making a passing comment to a colleague in the hallway on the way to pick up students up from health fitness, I now have to log into their blog, read the post and comment about their adventure. Thankfully this effort also has an advantage....for someone who has amazing ideas that I never see or talk to, they can now share the ideas and weeks, months, even a year later I can still see the idea.
I like adding the blogs I follow on my blog list. One advantage is I can see who has a new post OR when the last time was they posted. I can then choose to read who I want to read about. Check out the links of those I follow on the side.
Delicious social bookmarking was also something I had forgotten about in the first 23 things I completed. I was glad to go back and import my bookmarks to have with me anywhere on the world wide web!
Tool #1 Setting up the blog....well I guess just maintaining it.
HUGE thanks to Tammy Holley who is my technology HERO! Despite my attempts to enjoy technology with my students the past few years, it seems I got ahead of myself so was able to create a tangled web of a mess. Thanks to Tammy for being patient with me(when is she not) and helping me persist with maintaining my previously started blog (hopefully it won't be a problem later).
Onto the other 10 blog post assignments.....
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