This is a WONDERFUL website that allows you to explore how to use technology based on a students "Intelligence." It explains types of activities to do with students according to their intelligence and how it helps them learn better. It doesn't have to be all about "Drill and Kill" in the classroom. What a great way to truly differentiate in the classroom.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Uh-Oh! I'm being Followed...
AND IT'S A GOOD THING! Thank you to my first two followers. I will do my best to keep this site updated with relevant technology information as it applies to educators. Now, let's really begin!
Forums for FREE!!!
This is a great site I stumbled upon where you can create a class forum for FREE! The great thing is, you can also make it private. A few teachers and I got together before summer and discussed ways to get more students involved and motivated in our district's Battle of the Books. I suggested we create a forum that all students in 3rd- 5th grade have access too. Go big or go home, right? I had a forum for just my students but I wanted it to be bigger than that. So, I created a Battle of the Books forum for our school and the other teachers can have moderator rights to the forum also. We can link the forum to our class website. What a great way to get students immersed in technology and reading at the same time! Check out the site and create your own free forum TODAY!
Create your own online lessons!
There is a wonderful site called Filamentality at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ that educators can use to create hotlists, treasure hunts, Webquests, and more! It is an easy site to navigate and will also host what you created onto their site. Then you can link what you created to your class homepage if you would like. Here is one that I created for my 4th graders. Enjoy!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Is Twitter bitter?
I have a Twitter account now and I am currently following 11 people. I told myself I would never have one because what do I have to say and who really wants to hear it? Who you follow says a lot about you I am sure. What am I going to do with this Twitter account now that I have one? Not sure. Hopefully, I will be able to use it for educational purposes as well as personal. But first I have to get some followers...hmmmm. That is going to be tricky.
Powerful Videos
These videos are courtesy of www.commoncraft.com and were done creativly to explain different Web2.0 tools. Definitely worth watching!
Bookmarking is better than Favorites :)
What's a Wiki?
What is RSS?
Twitter, what?
I'm already Social!
Anyone can be a Supermodel.
What's happenin'!
But I use a doc cam already...
When filling out my Professional Development Plan, I always thought that I deserved the highest mark when filling out the technology piece. I used a document camera daily, children were on the computer and I utilized online videos from our counties Moodle site. Check, Check, and Check.
Then I took a class through my UF graduate program called Using the Internet in K-12 Instruction. All I can say is WOW, WOW, WOW!!! How little did I know. Could I please take back my IPDP's and give myself a 1? My eyes were opened to how much of a Digital Immigrant I was living in a Digital Native world.
At the end of the course my professor had the AUDACITY to ask us to implement one of the Web2.0 tools into our life and email her the link. Can you believe it? She actually wanted us to use what we have learned. Thank goodness there are teachers out there like Melissa MccAllister who want to see us succeed and change the life of our students one-by-one.
So that is the reason for this blog. To help change students one-by-one, whether you are in my classroom, a colleague, a fellow Grad student, or a Digital Immigrant yourself wanting to learn how to change your life through the Internet. If you have stumbled upon my blog, I hope you stay and follow along with me on my technological journey.
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