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.
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