Reflection Assignment 8

I have been excited about all of the tools and how they can be used in a school setting. My absolute favorite is the del.icio.us tool. I can not tell you how many times I have had wait until I got home or vice versa to get a web page that I love but forgot the address. Also, my computer crashed a few months ago and I lost every favorite list I had!!! This is an excellent way to keep everything together. It is a great back up tool. Also, I am so excited to begin looking at other peoples bookmarks! I know that a teacher I work next to has excellent websites and I would love to see her favorite page. After I logged on to del.icio.us account I started tagging items and moving my favorites over!

Assignment 5 Videos

I quickly learned how slow my computer can be!!!! However after some patience I was able to tour the sites. I thought that teacher tube was my favorite. It was a great way to publish and explore a variety of topics and Watch other people who are much more creative than I am. I thought that You Tube......could be dangerous to monitor. I found a few interesting videos. However, it seemed to have a great variety of topics to choose from. I think this is one that students would flock to and that they would have no problem looking things up! I had a hard time with Next Vista....I am not sure why but I couldn't get this one to work for me. Clip Blast was easy to explore and had many great topics as well. I think Teacher Tube is the best from my point of view but You tube does offer a large topic choice.

For use in the classroom, in the early primary years students have so many questions about how things work and how to do things. I think it is a great way to model new things for them.

Assignment 6 Wiki Thoughts

After being out on maternity for a few times, I returned to school and heard about the wiki. I had to sign up for classes and assemblies but I didn't really know how or why I was doing that. After watching and exploring the wiki lesson, I think I get it. It is a great way to centralize your ideas and have others come to a place and respond and edit. I think it is a great way for teachers to support their lessons and give students a chance to explore things at their own convenience. I also liked the way you post post articles and things before meetings and almost have pre-dialogue and info prior to a meeting so you do not have to do it when you meet. I think the time stamp and ease in checking will be a powerful tool as an instructor. Although, I am still nervous about creating one, I do think this is a great learning tool. It seemed easy too when i tried the example. Hopefully I didn't mess it up too bad.

Reflections Assignment 4

I think that blogging will have future in my classroom! I have started brainstorming on how students could use this tool. One way I thought of is to have students challenge each other. Many people have blogged about using it in reading and writing but even in math and social studies that might work as well. Students could blog challenging questions to each other and have them blog back and forth answering and challenging each other. It would be neat to see what stduents can come up with.

I think that one benefit to the classroom is that it a useful way to communicate with many people and share ideas in many different capacities. Through sharing research to informing about topics it is a great way to learn new things for students and teacher. I am looking forward to using blogging in my classroom.

Children's Poetry

I found a few great sites of children poetry being published. http://vepoetry.blogspot.com/ is one of the great blogs that I found. Here is another one as well. These were written by Quest students What a great way for students to share their work!

Blog trial

I am practicing blogging for a class I am taking!