I really liked being
able to use the google calendar and translator.
The calendar I could send the URL to parents and students so they could
keep up with class assignments and events.
Google translator I could use to help with ELL students and instruction.
Here’s the URL to my calendar page.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Thing 11
I went on the Google
blog search and for the school library 2.0 I found the original source for the
23 things. The topix.net took me to the
local news feeds from Clarksville, TN which I thought would be helpful, I currently
use ClarksvilleNow.com. The Technorati
had several educational blogs that I thought was interesting and it had the
easy click icon for subscription.
Thing 10
I like the way RSS works in combining the new posts from all
your favorite sites into one place. I
have subscribed to several sites and receive emails from them, but I prefer
this because it keeps my email account open to only what is pertinent to my
daily activities. As a teacher, I could
use this for a class project for each student to find a site that makes daily
post about a certain subjects and add it to our class site so everyone could go
in and it read it regularly and discuss in class what is going on with that
subject. Also as a teacher I can see
using this to keep up with my favorite sites to help with professional development
by keeping up with current trends in education.
Thing 9
I found the happy face generator
quite easy to use and it had cute options for creating cartoons. I thought that would be something nice to
share with students in the future and have them create their own cartoons as a
class project relating to some subject matter.
Thing 8
I was not able to get this mashup
thing to work. I wanted to use Mappr and
take a map of the U.S. and put photos (historical and current) of different
places along the Oregon Trail. Since I’m
going to be a social studies teacher, I feel I could use this application to
create interesting visuals to tie into lesson plans about things like the
westward expansion, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Trail of Tears, and so
on. Sorry I couldn’t get something to
post for the visual.
Thing 7
“Still of the morning” Groups Seascapes and Shorelines, tags bay, beautiful, pier, the photographer is
Michael T.
Flickr seems to be an amazing
website for sharing visual imagery. I used the words pier, bay, and beautiful
and got this photo. It is also listed in
groups under Seascapes and Shorelines (group 373, 103). I am almost overwhelmed by the amount of
visual information you can obtain from this site, even accessing historical
photos from the library of congress, which will help me since I’m going to be a
social studies teacher and can use those images in power points. Sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the actual photo to post to my entry, maybe because it was copyrighted.
Thing 6
Etsy.com is online market place
for selling handmade goods that you would not be able to find in the commercial
marketplace. Things can be one-of-a-kind
creations that you can order from the artist or crafter. People can have a complete online shop for their
goods on this site. The useful features of the site are that you can search for
anything, you can choose by the categories listed, and they have choices for
ways to shop such as for a gift for a certain occasion. For education, I think
in a classroom you could set up a sight where each student had their own “shop”
where they could put entries, photos, or videos of things that were of interest
to them and the other students could use that to learn more about their
classmates.
This is the website I used to find Etsy
This is Etsy's website
Thing 5
Web
2.0 is an awesome advance in the way the internet is used to join people as
global participants in the creation and sharing of information. For school 2.0 I see it as being so necessary
to get all students literate in how to access, assimilate, and use the visual
information obtainable on the web. Since
55%+ students are already using social media, this isn’t the challenge it would
have been 10 -15 years ago. I see
podcasts and skyping being useful innovations to teaching because a student can
access the lesson from anywhere in the world.
With skype you could actually join classrooms with another class half
way around the world and share information.
For the future of schools, I see it as our students are going to be very
literate in how to obtain the information they need for any subject they are
researching. For teachers, I see it as a
way to connect through blogs to share information about what works and what
doesn’t.
Thing 4
I think commenting on blogs you
like is way to join a community that shares your interest and concerns and is a
way of joining the conversation. Two
tips I like from experienced bloggers were; be prepared for negative people to
make nasty comments, and respond to comments on your blog to keep the
conversation going. I commented on 6
people from my class, but I don’t know I’m supposed to list the 2 of choice
here since I haven’t got to thing 10 and 11 yet. The six people are: Ashley Martin, Jillian Anderson, Alexis
Wyler, Jordan Swift, Mariane Spencer, and Alana Mcleroy. The comments I chose to make were responding
to things in their posts that I thought were good ideas that I would like to
use myself.
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