Week 8, Thing #18

Key Stage 3 Geography: Coasts: Weathering and Erosion

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I found this through the creative commons search. I think that I posted it correctly. I had trouble figuring out how to show the creative commons sign on my blog. I found that there was not a lot of choice when I looked at presentations that I could post.

Week 7, Thing #17

In my opinion, podcasts would be a great way in having students involved in their learning, if they were tasked with making their own. They could learn lots of important skills while having ownership in producing their own podcasts.

I am not sure that I would be a fan of using podcasts that students listen to in my classroom. The drawback to simply listen to podcasts is that it is purely auditory.

I liked using the RSS again. It has been a while and was good to refresh on how to use that tool.

Week 7, Thing #16

There are so many opportunities to find great videos at youtube and teachertube. In the short time I spent looking through youtube, I found this great song about dividing fractions. I think one of the down falls of youtube is all the videos that you have to sort through to find worthwhile videos. Another down fall would be that students cannot access youtube from school. Everything would have to be teacher found.

Week 6, Thing #15

I am planning to use movie maker in my lesson plan with my students on a weather unit. I plan to accomplish this in January. I will post and example at that time.

Week 6, Thing #14

Voice Thread is a pretty cool site. I made a presentation for a couple of friends trying to convince them to take a trip with me. I had fun finding images and putting together a story. I think student would enjoy putting together presentations on voice thread. Also, students can put their own voice on the presentation and be able to heard how they sound when presenting. I think this would be a great self evaluation tool. Another aspect that I think would be beneficial for students is that I as the teacher could give them feedback on specific parts of their presentation at that part.

Week 5, Thing #13

GoogleDoc would be a fun application to use with students. I like how every student can be working on a project at their own computer at the same time. This will force every student to physically participate in a project. I think it is very important that I as the teacher can see what every student has edited. The students should also be aware that I can that capability. The only problem I see is getting the computer space at school and students complaining that their internet was not working at home.

Week 5, Thing #12

I think that wikis are one of the tools I have learned that I can see myself using with my students. I like the idea of having a team wiki that only I or my co-teacher has control to change. This could be a great resource for my students as well as their parents. If my co-teacher or myself wanted the students to work on a group project on the computer, then we could add links to student wikis on our team wiki page.

Week 4, Thing #11

Wordle of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

I started out my word cloud quest in TagCrowd. It was neat to see how many times a word was used, but I was not too impressed. Wordle hooked me right away. I loved changing the font and the colors and making the word cloud my own. I like the example of using speeches to see what words are used repeatedly, but I am having a hard time coming up with a way to use word clouds in Math to make it useful for the content.

Week 4, Thing #10

I can see how Del.icio.us could potentially be a wonderful site to put together websites that students will need for research projects. With Del.icio.us students could also access the same sites at home. Also, I could see this being great for parents that want to check out the sites that their children are accessing. If students are working on a wiki for their project, they could have a link to their wiki on this site as well. It could be a one stop shop.

Week 3, Thing #8

I posted a comment on this blog:

http://math-blog.com/

I an entry about an interview with an author on a book about numbers. I wanted to let them know that I found the entry useful and how it made me interested in buying the book for myself.

Week 3, Thing #8

I created a twitter account a couple of weeks ago. I followed several people. I found some friends, some educators and some institutions. Honestly, today is my first time to log into my account since I set it up. I feel like this could be useful if I sat at my computer at work. My problem is that I cannot find time to check it on a consistent basis.

Week 3, Thing #7

I have love and hate feelings about the RRS feeds. It would be nice to not to have to check all my email sites to see if they have updated every day...especially if they are the types of sites that do not update very often. On the flip side, I feel like this could be overwhelming for me to see so much new information every time I log into Google Reader.

Week 2, Thing 6

Week 2, Thing 5

http://bighugelabs.com/map.php




http://bighugelabs.com/map.php



My favorite mashup by far (that I used) was the map maker. There are many different maps to use where you could highlight the places you have been. I could see students using this in a social studies class to

Week 2, Thing 4

I put myself into this picture. Driving down the road by myself as the sun setting. I feel a calm that I really do not feel in my everyday life.

Figuring out how to use flickr was not the hard part of this post for me. I found several pictures that I wanted to use. I had trouble finding a picture that had creative commons and then I had trouble getting that creative commons into my blog. I think I could do it much faster next time.

photo by gutter (Creative Commons License: Attribution, Share-Alike)

Thing #3

It seems to me that copyright can be a very convoluted issue. This can make it a very confusing issue for students. I guess in the classroom I would stress that it is better to be safe than sorry. Always, try to think about the other person.

If my students are working under good faith, I would stress that they should always site where the information/media they are using is coming from. I would also stress that I am looking for a presentation made by them and that most of the work they use should be their own.

Thing #1

My avatar was fun to make. I can see how you can spend/waste a lot of time making a picture of you. There is so much to see. Overall, I enjoyed making my avatar and trying to make it be me and my personality.

So my first run was a bust...

About a month ago I started a gmail account and a blog, but for some reason my account was shut down. So now I am starting over. Here is my first post of my do over.