Thing #23

Thing #23

This journey has been very interesting. I've learned so much more about what's available on the web for everybody. I found that exploring each thing has really helped me be a more knowledgable resource for my students, colleagues, and children.

Now it's time to focus on a few key areas such as a class blog spot that could include a growing amount of student input including photosharing, narratives, videos, podcast, and voicethreads. I've been able to locate resources I have never used before such as google docs and delicious and plan to use these in my professional and personal life.

The thing about this journey into the web is that there is no going back. I hope that the powers that be expand there vier vision of education beyond memorization and standards. I do believe that there are huge bodies of knowledge out there that need to be shared with and understood by our students to a greater or lesser degree. In addition students also need to be trained how to problem solve, create, relect, and cooperate with others.

I see this journey as two parts: Part I is to help students learn things about the world in terms of history, languages, English skills, mathematics, sciences, music, art, dance etc. It seems that we have a way to go in order to provide better ways to help studets learn this body of knowledge. Technology and multi media in the classroom can help with that as well as resourses for schools, parents, teachers, and students that encourage active learning, creating, interpreting, and creating new sustainable structures.

We all have our work cut out for us, but hopefully we will accept the challenge and help shape the leaders of the future in ways that will benefit our country and our world.

Thing #22

Thing #22
Teachers can override the bans and play You Tubes and many do--to the benefit of our students!

I love online videos! They are so creative and Funny. Watch any of Rhett and Link's videos and you will probably laugh too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qawlht-alU&feature=channel_page
My students love it when we play funny videos! It can really brighten the day and get them in a more receptive frame of mind..


This is the first time I've seen the TED site. Awesome videos! Inspirational for teachers and students alike.
TED
http://tiny.cc/hddvq

Also enjoyed this on teacher tube:
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=17452&title=One_Semester_of_Spanish___Love_Song

Many students of mine would enjoy making and posting videos on-line. It can be a great learning experience.

Thing #21

Thing #21
Twitter
Our district has Twitter page (?) and I have a Twitter account. I keep a twitter feed on my I-Google page and follow many of the updated tweets and links, especially if they are about our district or education in general.

I'm not into social updates of what's going on with me all the time, but hey--some folks really like that connection. Twitter has already been a valuable resource for me and I have read and learned many things. It's also been helpful to receive updates on things like school board meetings or emerging posting or budget issues.

In general I like getting the links and reading the articles on my own time. if we had to read everything that everyone from Godfrey-lee posted, it could become a bit of a time problem.

Thing #20

Thing #20
Delicious bookmarks/Tags
Username: Pdoran789
I like putting my bookmarks on the web. I have bookedmarked so many things while taking this class that I was already worried that they wouldn't be on my school computer. I was going to send a page of links to my school address. Then walah! delicious did it for me in a minute.

Organizing and sharing links on the web will be bebeficial to me and to my students. Many times I give them addresses to go to on the web for various purposes. Many times I have to go computer to computer to help them type the URL. Having the links on delicious will save time for everyone involved. I look forward to pulling links up more easily in my room during lessons aw well as sharing links with my fellow educators.

Thing #19

Thing #19
Intro. to Social Bookmarking
I think that tagging is a useful way to organize my digital resources. Every day my bookmark page is getting longer and I have yet a organize the links in an effective manner. I used delicious once before, but was hung up on a few challenges in susribibg to sites. I enjoyed some interesting feeds, but never got to the real usefulness of a site like delicious.

I like the idea of having an easy forum for sharing resources with other teachers in my building or community. It has the potential to be valuable to me if I use it efficiently and effectively.

Thing #18

Thing #18
Ning
I searches Ning and found a site called Know ELL's that I explored. I found this site quite interesting. The posts were varied: from personal reflections to links to useful sites to research exploring current issues for ELLs such as ELLs and technology. I plan to read many of the articles on this site.

One of the sections (posts) that I found interesting is Enhancing the writing development of English language learners: teacher perceptions of common technology in project-based learning. Topics such as this are current and apply directly to what I do with students.

A problem that I can see with a PLN is TIME. Just like with district tweets (which are interesting, but offer endless links), I could waste a lot of time here. I could forsee that if I was with a school group of teachers here, it could be a problem if one is required to read and process all of the ideas and articles.

Thing #17

Thing #17 Web. 2.0 Winners

Docstock -Documents/ Education

This is one of those sites that I want to have bookmarked and maybe on a feed. Being able to quickly access and use documents to use with quickly is helpful. I found many of the English grammar documents helpful as well as various employment letter examples. I also like the "My Documents" file on doc.stoc

I also plan to explore delicious more to see if I like it more than I-Google.



Many of the winning sites did need membership to access, so I skipped some interesting ones such as Mango.