Wahoo! I'm finished. This has been a interesting experience.
1. My absolute favorite activities were with LibraryThing and del.icio.us. Like I said in previous posts, I knew about both of these things, but had resisted them for one reason or another. NOw I'm hooked.
2. I like to learn. I like to learn about technology. And I like to learn about new technology that I can use in the classroom and at home.
3. I really didn't think that I would like del.icio.us or find it useful. I also wasn't sure that I would find a way to use this in the classroom, but I have already used Google Notebook and others--this week.
4. I felt like some of the Things were repetitive--that I had just explored that Web 2.0 tool and I would have liked to explore more things.
5. Yes, I think I would. Once I got into this, I thought it was really fun and helpful.
6. fun, excellent, informative, useful.
7. Ok, ok, I will.
This was a blast!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Thing 22
Nings are interesting. I have a couple of ideas for nings. You could create a class ning and your students could join and network and collaborate with each other. You could also create a library or school ning and have parents and students join and give information, have groups, etc. I could see how nings could be a very interesting way of sharing information in a school.
I also like the nings that were provided in the instructions (except Ning for Teachers was BLOCKED, which is really annoying). I like that these are places that teacher and librarian from all over can collaborate and share ideas. I think it is important that these things can happen readily and on a regular basis.
I also like the nings that were provided in the instructions (except Ning for Teachers was BLOCKED, which is really annoying). I like that these are places that teacher and librarian from all over can collaborate and share ideas. I think it is important that these things can happen readily and on a regular basis.
Thing 21
My podcast is about... wait for it... Pride and Prejudice. See a theme? I used PhotoStory to create my podcast.
This technology could be used to create so many wonderful things (book reviews, unit intorductions, etc.) for our students and for our students to create things. Many of my students have chosen to create PhotoStory videos instead of PowerPoint presentations. I think this could be great in the library for many things. You could have a weekly library report (what's new, etc.) Or you could have students and teachers record book reviews. Podcasts are great fro so many educational things!
Thing 20
YouTube is BLOCKED. (Anyone notice a theme?) I'm pretty familiar with YouTube though and think it would be great to be able to show those videos at school. (Though I do know about Zamzar and have used it.)
The above video is from TeacherTube. I teach The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien in my Junior IB English classes. This video describes a possibly project that a teacher could use when teaching this novel.
One thing that I really like about TeacherTube is that it has videos for teachers to use for ideas and videos for teachers to show to students. Kids these days (and this teacher) have grown up watching TV and movies. It is valuable to tap into the students interests as we are tricking them into learning something.
The above video is from TeacherTube. I teach The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien in my Junior IB English classes. This video describes a possibly project that a teacher could use when teaching this novel.
One thing that I really like about TeacherTube is that it has videos for teachers to use for ideas and videos for teachers to show to students. Kids these days (and this teacher) have grown up watching TV and movies. It is valuable to tap into the students interests as we are tricking them into learning something.
Thing 19
I really wanted to look at One Sentence, but it's BLOCKED. There were a few others I tried that were also BLOCKED. I hate when things are BLOCKED. Especially when they are useful and are not all something that should be BLOCKED.
[Stepping off of soapbox.]
So I ended up, completely by accident, exploring fuzzmail. With fuzzmail you basically type and email in the box and fuzzmail records your typing and your recipient gets to see the whole thing. It's kind of weird because you get to see all the typos and all the mistakes. They say that it makes email better because it records the emotion and makes email more personal (they use the example of love letters, personal as opposed to business, etc.). I was thinking about it for Creative Writing (which is also why I wanted to look at One Sentence). We could talk about adding emotion to writing and use fuzzmail as an example of one way to do that.
When the email plays, it looks like a video and you can do really interesting things with it. You could use it as a way to present information--if it would record longer, it cut one of my emails off. fuzzmail may be on to something--this could make writing a completely different experience. It would be great to expand the time frame and turn it into a word processor that shows your revisions in real time when you press play. This could be a valuable learning experience for some students.
[Stepping off of soapbox.]
So I ended up, completely by accident, exploring fuzzmail. With fuzzmail you basically type and email in the box and fuzzmail records your typing and your recipient gets to see the whole thing. It's kind of weird because you get to see all the typos and all the mistakes. They say that it makes email better because it records the emotion and makes email more personal (they use the example of love letters, personal as opposed to business, etc.). I was thinking about it for Creative Writing (which is also why I wanted to look at One Sentence). We could talk about adding emotion to writing and use fuzzmail as an example of one way to do that.
When the email plays, it looks like a video and you can do really interesting things with it. You could use it as a way to present information--if it would record longer, it cut one of my emails off. fuzzmail may be on to something--this could make writing a completely different experience. It would be great to expand the time frame and turn it into a word processor that shows your revisions in real time when you press play. This could be a valuable learning experience for some students.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Thing 18
I've used Google Docs before and Open Office was on my computer when I received it (way to go, SBISD!). I like that you can share your documents with other people and collaborate with them in Google Docs, but I wasn't particularly thrilled with the formatting. It seemed like I could never get it the way that I liked it. Not that Microsoft Office is much better. I like that I can save things to Google Docs and edit them form any computer. Many of my students use Google Docs and some of them were using it to collaborate of the project they were working on this week.
I haven't really worked very much with Open Office, but I'm not sure why. I guess I'm sticking with what I know. The advantages of working with free online tools are that they are FREE! And just as good, for the most part. I'm having a difficult time thinking of disadvantages. I love free online tools!
I haven't really worked very much with Open Office, but I'm not sure why. I guess I'm sticking with what I know. The advantages of working with free online tools are that they are FREE! And just as good, for the most part. I'm having a difficult time thinking of disadvantages. I love free online tools!
Thing 17
The Sandbox Wiki was interesting. I liked that I could leave comments and read other people comments, but I'm not sure what I could use it for in the school setting other than the things I mentioned in my previous post.
I think wikis are great as collaboration tools for both students and teachers/librarians. I would have liked to have my students use wikis on the project they are almost finished with.
I think wikis are great as collaboration tools for both students and teachers/librarians. I would have liked to have my students use wikis on the project they are almost finished with.
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