1. What are your favorite tools you now have in your personal technology toolbox? Briefly describe a particular activity that you will plan for your students using at least one of these new tools.
I enjoyed the digital storytelling tool. I think the students could use this tool to write class stories about projects or field trips we do during the school year. I think I could use this to model the project to the kids, and have them work in groups to tell a story, perhaps about their impressions about our new school building.
2. How have you transfomed your thinking about the learning that will take place in your classroom?
I think that the learning will be in many varied forms this year. We will have to balance the students' technology learning with their composition practice and story writing for the TAKS test, since many of the apps didn't address composition writing.
3. Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
There is a lot to learn in technology, and a lot that our students will be expected to know in their learning for the rest of their education.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tool # 11
For your Tool #11 assignment:
In YOUR blog post, discuss at least three things you would want to make sure your students understand about being good digital citizens. Explain briefly how you would "teach" the idea of digital citizenship to your students.
Three things that I would want my students to understand about being good digital citizens are to be safe, to be a courteous user, and to use reliable and valid websites.
I would use brain pop videos to review with students information about internet safety and security. These will show the students what to be aware of when they are using the internet. I would also teach them to think about the information they find on websites, and not trust the information as truth just because it is on the internet. I would review a lesson about hoax websites that our librarian taught them during technology time last year. Above all, I would be monitoring my students as they are working on their computers to ensure that I can help them before problems arise.
In YOUR blog post, discuss at least three things you would want to make sure your students understand about being good digital citizens. Explain briefly how you would "teach" the idea of digital citizenship to your students.
Three things that I would want my students to understand about being good digital citizens are to be safe, to be a courteous user, and to use reliable and valid websites.
I would use brain pop videos to review with students information about internet safety and security. These will show the students what to be aware of when they are using the internet. I would also teach them to think about the information they find on websites, and not trust the information as truth just because it is on the internet. I would review a lesson about hoax websites that our librarian taught them during technology time last year. Above all, I would be monitoring my students as they are working on their computers to ensure that I can help them before problems arise.
Tool # 10
For your tool #10 assignment on YOUR blog:
1. Discuss some of the free educational apps you reviewed.
Some of the apps I looked at include the following: Word of the Day, Fact of the Day, Did You Know?, and Quote of the Day.
2. OPTIONAL: If you had an opportunity to play with one of the devices, briefly describe your experience. Was there a WOW moment?
I was looking at these devices from Apple's list included with this module.
3. Discuss ways your students could use the iTouch or iPad and appropriate apps in your class.
I think that the Word of the Day or Quote could be used to help increase my ESL students' English vocabulary or thinking and reasoning skills in a fun way. The Fact of the Day or Did You Know? could be particularly helpful with my GT students because it could create a spark for them where they may want to research a topic more fully that they have learned about through one of these apps.
1. Discuss some of the free educational apps you reviewed.
Some of the apps I looked at include the following: Word of the Day, Fact of the Day, Did You Know?, and Quote of the Day.
2. OPTIONAL: If you had an opportunity to play with one of the devices, briefly describe your experience. Was there a WOW moment?
I was looking at these devices from Apple's list included with this module.
3. Discuss ways your students could use the iTouch or iPad and appropriate apps in your class.
I think that the Word of the Day or Quote could be used to help increase my ESL students' English vocabulary or thinking and reasoning skills in a fun way. The Fact of the Day or Did You Know? could be particularly helpful with my GT students because it could create a spark for them where they may want to research a topic more fully that they have learned about through one of these apps.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tool #9
1. Discuss how the screencast could help your students and how you might have students use Jing.
Jing would be helpful to use in the classroom by teaching the kids a set of directions or procedures for a work station or small group instructions. They could view and review instructions several times if necessary, and would help them be more self directed.
2. Discuss how you might use Skype with your students and share across the district, the state, the nation, or the world!
Skype could be beneficial to use in the classroom to share learning with another class of students in another state or country. We could, for example, be pen pals and share letters with another class of fourth graders in another state, and then use Skype to share more information back and forth with them or to visually see each other at the end of the year.
OPTIONAL: 3. If you did create a screecast with Jing or Skyped with someone, tell a little about the experience.
Jing would be helpful to use in the classroom by teaching the kids a set of directions or procedures for a work station or small group instructions. They could view and review instructions several times if necessary, and would help them be more self directed.
2. Discuss how you might use Skype with your students and share across the district, the state, the nation, or the world!
Skype could be beneficial to use in the classroom to share learning with another class of students in another state or country. We could, for example, be pen pals and share letters with another class of fourth graders in another state, and then use Skype to share more information back and forth with them or to visually see each other at the end of the year.
OPTIONAL: 3. If you did create a screecast with Jing or Skyped with someone, tell a little about the experience.
Tool #8
1. Select two videos that may be useful resources in your classroom. Upload them to your blog if they can be embedded into your blog. If they do not have embed capabilities, hot link them to your blog.
They are embedded on my blog.
2. In your blog post for Tool #8, discuss how videos are useful resources for your students and how the 2 videos you selected will add to the learning in your classroom.
Videos are useful to help the visual learner to see and understand the concept we are learning. It is one more way to show the concepts to students who have different learning styles.
3. If it is not clear from the format, be sure and include the titles and indicate from which source you got the videos so that others may go there for additional information. Example: YouTube videos are easily recognizable and include the title of the video, but other sources listed here may be not be clearly identified.
These video clips are from You Tube.
They are embedded on my blog.
2. In your blog post for Tool #8, discuss how videos are useful resources for your students and how the 2 videos you selected will add to the learning in your classroom.
Videos are useful to help the visual learner to see and understand the concept we are learning. It is one more way to show the concepts to students who have different learning styles.
3. If it is not clear from the format, be sure and include the titles and indicate from which source you got the videos so that others may go there for additional information. Example: YouTube videos are easily recognizable and include the title of the video, but other sources listed here may be not be clearly identified.
These video clips are from You Tube.
Tool #7
1. Create a PhotoStory or I-Movie.These resources are already loaded on to your district-issued computers.The sample can be something you might use in class, a sample a student might create, or something for you personally.I-Movie tutorial help. More iMovie help. PhotoStory help. More PhotoStory help. Atomic Learning PhotoStory tutorials (district password required)
I created a photo movie in Photo Story 3 using pictures of my students on our museum field trip. I added music to the story, also.2. Include pictures, music, and text and/or voice-over in your digital story.Each resource has music contained within it, but here are some copy-right friendly free music sources: Incompetech, FreePlayMusic, SoundzaboundYou should not use music from CDs you have without getting permission...all that music is copy-right protected!
I added music to the story, also.3. Upload the finished product to your blog. If it is a PhotoStory, be sure you saved it as a finished product--a wmv file or it will not load. If you made an iMovie, it needs to be a mp4 file.You will use the video icon on the Post Box tool bar.
I uploaded the story to my blog.4. In your blog, write a short post about your experience with digital storytelling. Include how you might have students use digital stories in your classroom.
I think that digital storytelling will be very beneficial in my classroom. In reading, for example, I can use it to teach beginning, middle, and end to my students. It will be fun for them to use actual photos to illustrate these story elements.
I created a photo movie in Photo Story 3 using pictures of my students on our museum field trip. I added music to the story, also.2. Include pictures, music, and text and/or voice-over in your digital story.Each resource has music contained within it, but here are some copy-right friendly free music sources: Incompetech, FreePlayMusic, SoundzaboundYou should not use music from CDs you have without getting permission...all that music is copy-right protected!
I added music to the story, also.3. Upload the finished product to your blog. If it is a PhotoStory, be sure you saved it as a finished product--a wmv file or it will not load. If you made an iMovie, it needs to be a mp4 file.You will use the video icon on the Post Box tool bar.
I uploaded the story to my blog.4. In your blog, write a short post about your experience with digital storytelling. Include how you might have students use digital stories in your classroom.
I think that digital storytelling will be very beneficial in my classroom. In reading, for example, I can use it to teach beginning, middle, and end to my students. It will be fun for them to use actual photos to illustrate these story elements.
Tool #6
IN YOUR BLOG post, discuss how students might use wikis to aid in their learning. Did any of the sample wikis you viewed give you any particular ideas for using a wiki in your classroom for students. How about for and your team or department?
The wikis will be great for collaborating, especially in writing. I can share assignments with my students and others where they could read, revise, and edit copies and share with each other their ideas.
The wikis will be great for collaborating, especially in writing. I can share assignments with my students and others where they could read, revise, and edit copies and share with each other their ideas.
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