Classroom Library Video

Try it to see if it works for you:

http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2009/10/classlibrary.html

Tool 7

Tool 11

Although all the tools are important, for the moment I think #s4, 8,9, and 10 are what I want to use right away. Eventually all tools and anything else I can learn will only show that I can use them all alike.
I plan to use the 2 videos I chose in tool 4 for welcoming back my students from Summer break. I think it will be an excellent way to break the ice and get them to share aloud and begin the community building required for a successful school year. Eventually, the process will lead to writing about their personal excperiences. In addition, this will lead to reading books about the same subjects discussed during reflection time.
This whole process has truly been fulfilling and has only engraved more deeply my thoughts about the importance of technology being a part of education.
I know incorporating technology is a must for the future of education. This process just made me realize that knowing this fact is not enough. It reiterated that internalizing it so that I may grow as a an educator is critical.

Tool 10

This tool is the one I found the most comprehensive as far as use for teaching. It is soooo extensive. The uses for the iPod, iTouch, etc, are so numerous it is impossible to mention everything. I did however, find the flashcards, creating questions, lesson planner, planetarium, study of geography, math, weather, google maps and panoramic pics, gym apps, and wikipedia amongst others totally appropriate and beneficial for school use. I can see creating extensions to plans where students have mastered the required teks. I can see centers for enhancing and maintaining lessons taught. In addition, the student that requires more senses for learning and internalizing what they are taught will definitely benefit from using these devices.

Tool 9

Wow! This is really cool. When I went to JING and saw the mapping example they used, I immediately saw a connection to teaching the mapping part of Social Studies. It will be very cool for kids to actually have hands-on training for using, knowing, creating, maps.
SKYPE really caught my interest in the areas of professional development, homework help, and the ability to invite a Read Aloud visitor on-line! Wow! How convenient for both a busy guest, and for the short day in a classroom.
On a more negative note, I did have problems registering for SKYPE but am sure I will be on in no time at all.

Tool 8

The videos I chose for my class are related to a great come back from summer. I think they will be an excellent tool for having students reflect about their summer vacation. They will also add to their list of ideas for writing!http://www.schooltube.com/video/f39b215933e3389e1f04/Welcome-back and http://www.schooltube.com/video/33ec19b44287646f01b7/Our-Summer-Trip-to-Big-Bend

Tool 6

I can easily see this tool as an aide for both teachers and students. During planning, teachers can conviniently pass around the typed plans and edit for corrections and/or personal touch. For students, I can see the tool as a great way to share ideas and work during group projects.

Tool 5

The two websites that I used were http://sites.fcps.org/trt/promethean_activinspire , I used word as the tag and http://www.wordle.net/create, where I used Activlessons as the tag.
This will help my students by labeling the sites on Delicious where they can share websites during research and other such lessons.

tool 4

Google docs and google reader are a cool way to communicate and get instant responses. I shared my school supplies list with one of my peers. We had fun editing it and sharing thoughts about the way it should be changed.
In my classroom I could easily see it as a way to peer-edit writing.
I followed the five blogs as in tool 2.

tool 3

I chose three image generators - image chef, wordle, dumpr. However, I was only able to post the work I did on image chef. I had too many problems doing the same for the others. There are way too many codes, passwords, etc. to get through.
I would love my students to be able to use this step for illustrating their writing or to comment on pictures.

Tool 2

I think an on-line community is the key to helping each other do the best we can as far as teaching goes. I am excited to become part of this community.
I believe that the key to commenting is to be clear and give full feed back.
I commented on Daniell's adventures in learning new tech, Monkey blog, CCTools, Just another day, and Summer Thoughts.

It will be very helpful once I understand fully how to use the blog and know its capabilities. I had a difficult time just cause it's me. My librarian, Susan, helped me and I owe as much as I have now to her!

I think it's important to create a community filled with members that share a common goal like educating and learning from others. This community should only help all of us get even better at what we do!