Videos are an excellent way to help aid important information. They are a great resource in the classroom. I love how accessible they are, it only takes a few minutes on our part to check if a video is useful, but for a student, the message in the video can last a life time. I decided on Bill Nye videos, I grew up watching this guy!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Tool # Siete
PhotoStory was fun, Ive used it before...It is pretty simple to use. It gets tricky when you try to get fancy with it. I can totally see how you can use this as a mini re-teach. It would be neat to have videos available for the kiddos to use when they need a little reminder on how to complete a task.
Student generated photostories would be even better, they could teach themselves. Photostory is a great tool to use for student projects.
Student generated photostories would be even better, they could teach themselves. Photostory is a great tool to use for student projects.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Tool# Seis
WIKI!!!!! I can remember one of my last semesters at UH we had to collaborate on a Wiki with our supervisors. Here we were supposed to schedule our observations, submit our lesson plans, and reserve and check out our media equipment.
It was a headache to have to learn how to navigate in such a short time, but now that I think about it...it was very useful. A kind of one stop shop. At the end of the semester we even used it as a sign up sheet for who was bringing what to our goodbye party.
I never thought about using it in the classroom, when we learned how to use wiki, it was kind of a learn it quick your gonna use it starting now attitude, we never got a nice introduction as we did here on 11 Tools.
I liked the idea of using a wiki to collaborate with students from all around. I also think it would be a great way for communication with fellow team members :)
It was a headache to have to learn how to navigate in such a short time, but now that I think about it...it was very useful. A kind of one stop shop. At the end of the semester we even used it as a sign up sheet for who was bringing what to our goodbye party.
I never thought about using it in the classroom, when we learned how to use wiki, it was kind of a learn it quick your gonna use it starting now attitude, we never got a nice introduction as we did here on 11 Tools.
I liked the idea of using a wiki to collaborate with students from all around. I also think it would be a great way for communication with fellow team members :)
Tool # Cinco
I almost forgot I had a delicious account, while at UH we student teachers were always looking for a leg up on online resources. Our professor had infinite number of web pages that she gave us all access to, today I found myself trying to filter out the ones that I found least helpful.
I found myself searching for math games, not only for the content that I am going to teach, but we also let our daughter play them at home...
She liked...
www.funbrain.com She said it was easy to navigate.
www.coolmath4kids.com She said it was fun to navigate, and she liked how she could review before playing a game.
I made sure to bookmark these two links for her. I am actually going to pass them along to my friends who have asked me for links to visit with their kiddos. Which brings up how easily one can share their bookmarks with people. I like how you can organize your links, it is a useful way to find information quickly.
I found myself searching for math games, not only for the content that I am going to teach, but we also let our daughter play them at home...
She liked...
www.funbrain.com She said it was easy to navigate.
www.coolmath4kids.com She said it was fun to navigate, and she liked how she could review before playing a game.
I made sure to bookmark these two links for her. I am actually going to pass them along to my friends who have asked me for links to visit with their kiddos. Which brings up how easily one can share their bookmarks with people. I like how you can organize your links, it is a useful way to find information quickly.
Tool # Cuatro
I love Google documents and all that go with it. The possibilities are endless in the classroom, but not only for the students. Teachers could also benefit from this. I have actually taken part on a google form that was used as an RSVP, and as a way to choose your entree (smart).
I wrote about letting students keep a blog, and how a teacher could respond and leave feedback to her students, but I never thought about the managing of the blogs and responses. Google reader has taken all the guess work out of that idea. To be able to manage all of the blogs you follow from one spot is just too easy!
I wrote about letting students keep a blog, and how a teacher could respond and leave feedback to her students, but I never thought about the managing of the blogs and responses. Google reader has taken all the guess work out of that idea. To be able to manage all of the blogs you follow from one spot is just too easy!
Friday, July 2, 2010
Tool # Tres
I totally enjoyed using the all the tools, and was eager for someone to see what I had created.
That was my light bulb moment...
We can talk about using technology in the classroom all day long, we can even talk about letting the kiddos blog, and although we all get excited about using it, to the students it can become "just another assignment". The key to making 11Tools not "just another training" is getting introduced to all the cool gadgets on the Internet....I mean lets be real, we had to be motivated by something to actually get us to do training from home, well that and getting to do it in my PJ's worked for me:)
Allowing the students to personalize their creations is key to getting them to turn the computer on and ask someone to see and read what they have posted on the weekends. I know that we all have great ideas on using these tools in the classroom, but sometimes the most basic is the answer!
That was my light bulb moment...
We can talk about using technology in the classroom all day long, we can even talk about letting the kiddos blog, and although we all get excited about using it, to the students it can become "just another assignment". The key to making 11Tools not "just another training" is getting introduced to all the cool gadgets on the Internet....I mean lets be real, we had to be motivated by something to actually get us to do training from home, well that and getting to do it in my PJ's worked for me:)
Allowing the students to personalize their creations is key to getting them to turn the computer on and ask someone to see and read what they have posted on the weekends. I know that we all have great ideas on using these tools in the classroom, but sometimes the most basic is the answer!
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