Friday, February 19, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Cool Tools
Explored Animated Books on the Cool Tools site: www.classtools.net
It's attached in the gadgets column, listed ad Two Roads/ Nothing Gold..
This site had many tools that students would have fun interacting with, quiz games, wiki books, graphic organizers, all of which I will be using in my classroom. Most of the activities could be used by either teacher or student. If I gave the students one of these assignments, I would make an example and post for them to see. I think they would benefit from the quiz game if they made them in small groups, and then had another group play the game...great for review.
It's attached in the gadgets column, listed ad Two Roads/ Nothing Gold..
This site had many tools that students would have fun interacting with, quiz games, wiki books, graphic organizers, all of which I will be using in my classroom. Most of the activities could be used by either teacher or student. If I gave the students one of these assignments, I would make an example and post for them to see. I think they would benefit from the quiz game if they made them in small groups, and then had another group play the game...great for review.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
FLICKR Continued
Flickr Fun Today.
Got up early to continue last night's fun project.
I now have a "Trading Card" of Myself and am making one for my daughter-in-law, she is also a teacher in Colorado.
By mistake clicked a wrong button, I learned how to create my own Magazine Cover.
(Another mistake that works - to add to my list that I have in the classroom...Its also a title of a book, and I'm the reading teacher)
I'm going to use the Magazine Cover as my Nameplate outside my classroom. Will look more exciting than my current one.
I wanted to try making my own trading cards, and magazine cover before assigning this to the students.. just to see how EASY it is...
The Kids used my printer so much this week I ran out of colored ink at school . I showed them how to make a Vocabulary card (roots of words) using the star form and placing ASTR and STELLAR inside of it with any words they could find with the root of the word.....then they click around and found they could make their own sports jersey, personizing it with their name and number. THey found baseball, basketball, tennis themes...and made some for themselves and with my suggestion some for their coaches.
SO now OUT OF INK..... but kids loving it.
Plan to ask a volunteer organization to donate some ink... this is getting expensive when the school won't pop for it.
Schools want us to promote technology but will not support their teachers with the needed supplies!!!
Got up early to continue last night's fun project.
I now have a "Trading Card" of Myself and am making one for my daughter-in-law, she is also a teacher in Colorado.
By mistake clicked a wrong button, I learned how to create my own Magazine Cover.
(Another mistake that works - to add to my list that I have in the classroom...Its also a title of a book, and I'm the reading teacher)
I'm going to use the Magazine Cover as my Nameplate outside my classroom. Will look more exciting than my current one.
I wanted to try making my own trading cards, and magazine cover before assigning this to the students.. just to see how EASY it is...
The Kids used my printer so much this week I ran out of colored ink at school . I showed them how to make a Vocabulary card (roots of words) using the star form and placing ASTR and STELLAR inside of it with any words they could find with the root of the word.....then they click around and found they could make their own sports jersey, personizing it with their name and number. THey found baseball, basketball, tennis themes...and made some for themselves and with my suggestion some for their coaches.
SO now OUT OF INK..... but kids loving it.
Plan to ask a volunteer organization to donate some ink... this is getting expensive when the school won't pop for it.
Schools want us to promote technology but will not support their teachers with the needed supplies!!!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Flickr
This week Flickr has been added to my Skill List
What I found out was some people get the music and others do not...so must be something in their servers, or problems that they are compatibile with.
I'm finding "Trading cards" to be of interest. Shared some ideas with our Librarian, on making trading cards on ourselves, then on books of interest... I'm interested in knowing if the cards have a back side. Will find out when I make one. This will be a fun project for the students to do, on a book, author, for background knowledge realting to a short story, etc.
I did a photo stream which when e-mailed will play music as you view the slide show.
What I found out was some people get the music and others do not...so must be something in their servers, or problems that they are compatibile with.
I'm finding "Trading cards" to be of interest. Shared some ideas with our Librarian, on making trading cards on ourselves, then on books of interest... I'm interested in knowing if the cards have a back side. Will find out when I make one. This will be a fun project for the students to do, on a book, author, for background knowledge realting to a short story, etc.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
DIIGOs!
I now have a Diigo set up (feel like a should be somewhat Austrialian by now -Dingos)
This was much T-wiki-er than RSS feeds, blog,and wikis, but will be a useful tools in finding articles, lessons, using in a classroom for having students read articles. Could be used to create list for students as a resource list, and showing the students how they can set up diigos of their own with tags. Again this is a great resource for internet searches coming to me..a time saving device.
This was much T-wiki-er than RSS feeds, blog,and wikis, but will be a useful tools in finding articles, lessons, using in a classroom for having students read articles. Could be used to create list for students as a resource list, and showing the students how they can set up diigos of their own with tags. Again this is a great resource for internet searches coming to me..a time saving device.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Gadgets
Thought I had found a great gadget to add...Translate this page; but the Link appears broken...Darn
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Reliability
I am also Reading "Empowering Students with Technology" by Alan November.
He discusses an experience a HS student had several years ago while researching the Holocaust. He stumbled across Prof. Arthur Butz's site (Prof @ NorthWestern U). The Professor did not deny the existence of the holocaust camps, but he explained the existence of the camps as an attempt by the German govt. to fight typhus carried by lice. He did not deny the shaving and the showers; the canisters of the gas, Zylon; and the crematorias and the death. He calmly and simply explains these details as necessary actions for the eradication of pervasive lice. The Student did not know how to read website. He was not taught the critical thinking skills of understanding the structure of the information or how to cros-reference the source. His lack of knowledge to think critically about information he read, made him a victim. (page 55 of the book)
I think I really need to compose some lessons regarding the internet sue/reliblility before I get too far into using the web for research with students. I could provide them with what I find are reliable sites for now, but then we are missing out on critial thinking.
He discusses an experience a HS student had several years ago while researching the Holocaust. He stumbled across Prof. Arthur Butz's site (Prof @ NorthWestern U). The Professor did not deny the existence of the holocaust camps, but he explained the existence of the camps as an attempt by the German govt. to fight typhus carried by lice. He did not deny the shaving and the showers; the canisters of the gas, Zylon; and the crematorias and the death. He calmly and simply explains these details as necessary actions for the eradication of pervasive lice. The Student did not know how to read website. He was not taught the critical thinking skills of understanding the structure of the information or how to cros-reference the source. His lack of knowledge to think critically about information he read, made him a victim. (page 55 of the book)
I think I really need to compose some lessons regarding the internet sue/reliblility before I get too far into using the web for research with students. I could provide them with what I find are reliable sites for now, but then we are missing out on critial thinking.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
CLASS POSTER
Had fun creating the poster which is off to the right.
I just added words related to subjects taught in my class.
I'm going to have the students experiment on this site my making a poster of themselves, and then a poster on a book they have just read.
I just added words related to subjects taught in my class.
I'm going to have the students experiment on this site my making a poster of themselves, and then a poster on a book they have just read.
WIKI waki wacky
Started a Wiki today.
This was not nearly as easy as the Blog.
Some of my problems may be related to using a different and slower computer (mine died). I added the pages within the site, one for each student group to work on. It was actually like setting up a Jigsaw, which we have done in class before. The main page will be a summary of the short story, and from the short story they will go to their own wiki page for the collaborative composition of the sub topics. I'd like to set up the summary so that blue letters would appear on the subtopic name and automatically take them to sites with information on the subtopic. Haven't figured that out yet.
I did set up the site as "protected" as suggested by Richardson in the text.
I am working on adding a video "Wikis in Plain English" which would be for student viewing.
(This was actually someone else's idea which I am borrowing).
I'm wondering about the directions in the text p67, where it says the students will have to set up accounts, give me their log in names, and to do so they need an email address. What if they do not have an email address?
This was not nearly as easy as the Blog.
Some of my problems may be related to using a different and slower computer (mine died). I added the pages within the site, one for each student group to work on. It was actually like setting up a Jigsaw, which we have done in class before. The main page will be a summary of the short story, and from the short story they will go to their own wiki page for the collaborative composition of the sub topics. I'd like to set up the summary so that blue letters would appear on the subtopic name and automatically take them to sites with information on the subtopic. Haven't figured that out yet.
I did set up the site as "protected" as suggested by Richardson in the text.
I am working on adding a video "Wikis in Plain English" which would be for student viewing.
(This was actually someone else's idea which I am borrowing).
I'm wondering about the directions in the text p67, where it says the students will have to set up accounts, give me their log in names, and to do so they need an email address. What if they do not have an email address?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Bonnie Smith Web2.0
The creation of my new blog was fun, especially since it did work!
One problem I encountered was in adding gadgets. I tried to add video link, so that I could add the u-tube video The Lottery. To paste in the wanted video was easy, but I also got two other videos attached that I did not want. I tried to delete them, but found no way to do that; but there was a way to block them out so they appeared black and not available for viewing. Mistakenly, I blacked out the 2nd video of the Lottery (PART 2), and never could unblock it. So I left it as it was, with only the one video (part I) showing.
I closed the site, reopening it later, only to find the blocked out videos were now replace with something I never asked for... I could not get rid of it, nor control it. Eventually I just deleted the video gadget altogether. I would like to figure what I did wrong, so eventually I could paste the U-Tube video on my blog, and the students could view the video as we read this story later this year.
Second, possible problem was the school website. The Web administrator says he CAN post the blog, even though the word blog is in the address.
Third problem- but not quite a problem... I am holding off on using this with the students because I do not want the students to access our teaching experience... Although I am not too sure that would hurt for them to see us as learners, too.
Problem 4: the first time I did the blog I forgot to do the step that corrected spelling, and mispelled my own name. I couldn't figure out how to correct it, so had to delete it and start again. I now have that feature added, and have even used it in this writing.
I was so excited about my blog site, I e-mailed several friends, and teachers to view it. So far they have liked it and so do I!
One problem I encountered was in adding gadgets. I tried to add video link, so that I could add the u-tube video The Lottery. To paste in the wanted video was easy, but I also got two other videos attached that I did not want. I tried to delete them, but found no way to do that; but there was a way to block them out so they appeared black and not available for viewing. Mistakenly, I blacked out the 2nd video of the Lottery (PART 2), and never could unblock it. So I left it as it was, with only the one video (part I) showing.
I closed the site, reopening it later, only to find the blocked out videos were now replace with something I never asked for... I could not get rid of it, nor control it. Eventually I just deleted the video gadget altogether. I would like to figure what I did wrong, so eventually I could paste the U-Tube video on my blog, and the students could view the video as we read this story later this year.
Second, possible problem was the school website. The Web administrator says he CAN post the blog, even though the word blog is in the address.
Third problem- but not quite a problem... I am holding off on using this with the students because I do not want the students to access our teaching experience... Although I am not too sure that would hurt for them to see us as learners, too.
Problem 4: the first time I did the blog I forgot to do the step that corrected spelling, and mispelled my own name. I couldn't figure out how to correct it, so had to delete it and start again. I now have that feature added, and have even used it in this writing.
I was so excited about my blog site, I e-mailed several friends, and teachers to view it. So far they have liked it and so do I!
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