One of my favorite tools was the photostory, I could see me using this tool the most in my class. It is very important to assist my students in learning and assessing my students in different ways. Most of my students do not do well on tests and having them put together a photostory and present it would really show how they know the skills.
I primarily used the Internet for watching movies, BrainPop, Odyssey and similar websites. I now know different way that you can create different things by using Web 2.0. I like how students could use Google Docs and save something online and access it anywhere. I wish they had that when I was in school. I can't tell you how many times I forgot my disk at home. However, my students usually don't get a chance to use the Internet or computers other than at school so I need to really teach them a lot of different stuff. We need to utilize these Tools at least once a week in my classroom.
I did not expect for this to take as long as it did and I did not expect to learn as much as I did. It was difficult getting going, but the last half of the Tools really went quick. I really enjoyed this and look forward to using the skills I have learned in the classroom.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Tool #11
After investigating about being a good digital citizens, I have come up with three very important concepts to teach my students. They include: 1. researching a topic at various cites and making sure the information is authentic, 2. learn the rules for behavior of a digital citizen and 3. the importance of keeping in contact with actual people. There are tons of different resources that are available to our students.
I would teach the rules of the computer like I would teach the rules of the class. I would post them and review them many times. I would model the appropriate behavior of a good digital citizen and assist students in following the model. I learned about non-authentic web sites by doing research for research papers and bibliographies. It would be a good practice to have students do the same. Keeping track of the research and where you get it from makes it easy to give credit to the research and to keep track of authentic cites. I also think it is important to utilize all the tools we have now with skype, video messaging, and messaging networks such as Facebook and Twitter. I would like to utilize all in the classroom. Like teaching in a multisensory classroom, it is important to teach good digital citizens how to appropriately use all these tool and not just some.
I would teach the rules of the computer like I would teach the rules of the class. I would post them and review them many times. I would model the appropriate behavior of a good digital citizen and assist students in following the model. I learned about non-authentic web sites by doing research for research papers and bibliographies. It would be a good practice to have students do the same. Keeping track of the research and where you get it from makes it easy to give credit to the research and to keep track of authentic cites. I also think it is important to utilize all the tools we have now with skype, video messaging, and messaging networks such as Facebook and Twitter. I would like to utilize all in the classroom. Like teaching in a multisensory classroom, it is important to teach good digital citizens how to appropriately use all these tool and not just some.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Tool #10
free educational apps review:
Google Earth App: I find maps very interesting and most of my students do also. I like manipulating the image to go closer or farther away. I like pulling it closer to see the details and farther away to see how it relates to the rest of the state or the country.
Wooden Labyrinth 3-D Lite: I used to see this as only a fun game, but I see how it could be used for hand and eye coordination. However, I feel that this particular application would drive my kids crazy.
Level - with the leveler and other tools to assist in measuring or leveling something I think the kids would use this a lot to assist them in measuring, which can be a tedious and frustrating thing for some kids. However, my husband actually uses this application at work installing home theaters. It has many uses.
My class is composed different kinds of students, many that are very behind in their education due to their behavior. I think the itouch would put a lot of educational activities in a fun game like setting. With the games my kids could practice many different skills suck as math and spelling.
Google Earth App: I find maps very interesting and most of my students do also. I like manipulating the image to go closer or farther away. I like pulling it closer to see the details and farther away to see how it relates to the rest of the state or the country.
Wooden Labyrinth 3-D Lite: I used to see this as only a fun game, but I see how it could be used for hand and eye coordination. However, I feel that this particular application would drive my kids crazy.
Level - with the leveler and other tools to assist in measuring or leveling something I think the kids would use this a lot to assist them in measuring, which can be a tedious and frustrating thing for some kids. However, my husband actually uses this application at work installing home theaters. It has many uses.
My class is composed different kinds of students, many that are very behind in their education due to their behavior. I think the itouch would put a lot of educational activities in a fun game like setting. With the games my kids could practice many different skills suck as math and spelling.
Tool #9
Jing:
Jing looks very interesting. I think my class and I would use Jing a lot because you do not need to have a web cam to use it. I could see my students using Jing in the classroom when interacting with other students in the campus or not when sharing information or just experiences with other students online. I like them being able to put a visual to the conversation. My students have trouble expressing themselves and I think that this would help their self confidence with interacting with people online and in general.
Skype:
I also think that Skype would be awesome for my students to use across district and farther, however, my classroom is not equipped with web cams to accommodate this. If we did have a web cam I think we could use it. I do have some connections in other schools that would be fun to do.
Jing looks very interesting. I think my class and I would use Jing a lot because you do not need to have a web cam to use it. I could see my students using Jing in the classroom when interacting with other students in the campus or not when sharing information or just experiences with other students online. I like them being able to put a visual to the conversation. My students have trouble expressing themselves and I think that this would help their self confidence with interacting with people online and in general.
Skype:
I also think that Skype would be awesome for my students to use across district and farther, however, my classroom is not equipped with web cams to accommodate this. If we did have a web cam I think we could use it. I do have some connections in other schools that would be fun to do.
Tool #8
A Social Story Personal Space
Introduces the idea to young students of personal space and the proper social skills when communicating.
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/a-social-story-personal-space/1joHtWvSZ60yI8dIvSQdzw
This video is from TeacherTube. It began with a commercial and took a lot of buffering, but I liked the video, it was short and very easy to understand about personal space. I have some students who have a really hard time with personal space. I see my student watching this video at least once a week. They could access it themselves on the classroom computer to review it.
This movie is from YouTube. I really like it!! It is a video from a graduating class to the coming class about the rules. One thing I really like about it is that it is acted out in a play type showing what to do and what not to do. I could see my class doing this, making a video for the next year to review the rules. I liked the interaction between the teacher and the kids.
I used the search engine blinkx.com, I really liked how it had sooooo many videos very easy to access. I was able to very easy add them to the blog. I would love to use this in my teaching. It would work awesome with an Active Board, someday I would like to get one.
Introduces the idea to young students of personal space and the proper social skills when communicating.
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/a-social-story-personal-space/1joHtWvSZ60yI8dIvSQdzw
This video is from TeacherTube. It began with a commercial and took a lot of buffering, but I liked the video, it was short and very easy to understand about personal space. I have some students who have a really hard time with personal space. I see my student watching this video at least once a week. They could access it themselves on the classroom computer to review it.
This movie is from YouTube. I really like it!! It is a video from a graduating class to the coming class about the rules. One thing I really like about it is that it is acted out in a play type showing what to do and what not to do. I could see my class doing this, making a video for the next year to review the rules. I liked the interaction between the teacher and the kids.
I used the search engine blinkx.com, I really liked how it had sooooo many videos very easy to access. I was able to very easy add them to the blog. I would love to use this in my teaching. It would work awesome with an Active Board, someday I would like to get one.
Tool #7
My Family
I found this very helpful. It was time consuming downloading the pictures and I had to pull some pictures from Facebook and it make them very fuzzy. I will need to do more research about about how to pull better pictures. However, I found that it would be really easy to create a presentation and set the whole thing to a voice over or to set it to music to add depth to the presentation. I could see this being used in any class. I would love to use this in History to tell a story of anything from the Civil War to Communities in Houston. With the Active Board it could make a huge difference in the confidence of a student. I will definitely use this!!!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Tool #6
It was refreshing to see some examples that had some previous tools incorporated in them. I think my students could use the Wiki's to collaborate, share, and create resources for them to utilize. Wikipedia has been used to find information and I see this as an extension of the information, but collected and presented differently. As for my co-workers, we can do the same thing, share the information. We can also collaborate to create the Wikis to present to the students so they can see the information possibly easier than just looking up stuff on the Internet. The Wikis can be manipulated to be presented to a variety of different skill levels. For example, a fifth grader with a DRA of 16 still needs to learn 5th grade material, but can not read a 5th grade level can be presented the material at their skill level.
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