Thing 23 – Final Thoughts
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I’ll type this in before I leave my 2 voice threads, so I can close this browser window …
While I thought I was pretty up-to-date technologically speaking, these past 10 weeks have proved me wrong. I’ve told teachers many times that one of the main reasons I love technology is because it keeps you sharp with its ever-changing, constant updating. And yet, now that I’ve completed this course, I find that so many things have happened in the field that I knew very little about. The biggest challenge is to keep learning; to keep abreast of the changes and improvements and to fold it all into our teaching to make ourselves relevant and effective.
As we begin the new school year, I have a long list of ideas to try to help teachers and students implement to make themselves more savvy and to enhance their teaching and their learning.
Thing 22 – Social Networking
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I joined Classroom 2.0 and found the threads a bit confusing. It was like walking into a room where there were hundreds of conversations going on and as you wander around you hear bits and pieces but unless you stay put and listen for a while, it all sounds like jibberish. Still, I can see how, with time and focus, this could be a powerful tool in the workshop of how to make education more interesting/relevant/collaberative.
Thing 7C – Reflections on my RSS reader
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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More and more interesting stuff for my math teachers and a wonderful article about inclusion ideas and resources.
Thing 21 – Pageflakes
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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Regretfully, I kept getting this message:
Sorry, the page you requested is temporarily unavailable.
Error Message: “Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.” at 8/1/2009 7:27:05 PM
Please report this in our forums at <a href=’http://www.pageflakes.com/forums’>http://www.pageflakes.com/forums</a> with the above information for additional help
for any of the pageflake links I tried or to even set up my own pageflake. I’ll have to do this at school next week.
Thing 20 – Googledocs
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I’ve sent this weeks’ ‘honey-do’ list for myself to Sue and Shelley. Perhaps they’ll want to do some of the tasks???? I doubt it sincerely, but sharing is nice. This is a wonderful way to keep teachers who are working on strategies for a specific student in the loop with one another. The sharing of a collaberative project will be much easier with these tools. Teaching kids how to work together with these tools could be very much worth the effort!
Thing 19 – You/Teacher Tube
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I really enjoyed Technology in Teaching of how to circumvent the blocking of You/Teacher Tube in schools by saving them in a converted format. Teaching with Technology from You Tube gave me renewed confidence to try to produce a video yearbook. Expertvillage.com had videos with easy to follow directions for how to cast on, knit, and bind off stitches on knitting needles. And for fun … I LOVED the television series West Wing and was able to discover a video of clips, portraying 2 of the main characters pulling practical jokes on each other.
Thing 17 – Podcasts
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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Tech on the Fly, a podcast from The Education Podcast Network, sounded really interesting. It was disappointing in that it was very much like listening to a radio station with lots and LOTS and L-O-T-S of commercials. They finally got onto giving information about twit.com, Microsoft and Yahoo’s merger and other interesting tidbits of tech news. I’ll probably continue to seek other podcasts of how-to’s of teaching information but I’m not sure when I’d have time to listen to full podcasts.
Thing 16 – LibraryThing
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I thought this was a delightful site! I found the factoid of Harry Potter/J.K.Rowling being at the tops of multiple lists interesting but not surprising. I can see our school’s informal book club posting up here and using the resources to discover new titles for us to read.
Thing 15 – Delicious Tags
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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This was fun! I actually went un-academic and tagged sites for quilts [my creative outlet] and ‘foodies’ [I love to make creative desserts!]. That said, it’s certainly obvious how this could be beneficial to a group of teachers with similar topics. I know I’ll be sharing this with my teachers next week.
Thing 7B – Reading my Google Reader
Posted onAugust 1, 2009
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I continue to love loonyhiker’s posts, and continue to send links of her articles to many of my co-teachers. I’ve stopped with the NY Times; they continue to cover the Michael Jackson story as if it were important.
