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Thing 22: Ning in Education
July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I thought that both Ning in Education and Classroom 2.0 were really interesting. I can definitely see expanding my use of these sites as I grow more comfortable with everything we have been learning. As I try putting into effect blogging and wikis, and all the rest, I can foresee the need to communicate with [...]
Jul
24
Thing 7C: RSS feed
July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
I followed a link from Vicki Davis’ The Cool Cat Teacher blog to a page called TPCK. It shows a venn diagram of how technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge intersect. I found the diagram strangely comforting. It is easy to feel overwhelmed with all this infusion of technology we have been exposed to in this [...]
Jul
23
Thing 21: Pageflakes
July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
More information keeps raining (or should I say snowing) down on us. Pageflakes is like RSS on steroids. Having said that, it’s quite fun! At the very least, now I am beginning to understand how much of what we see online is created. I copied Shelley’s template, deleted some things and added others. It was [...]
Jul
22
Thing 20: Google Docs
July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I had started receiving Google Docs this past spring related to my son’s football team. The first time I got one, I was just paralyzed, not knowing what to do. Now, of course, I know what to do. In June, I created a word document as an itinerary for a trip to NY. I knew [...]
Jul
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Thing 19: YouTube
July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
YouTube has an amazing range of material. I am familiar with what my kids like to watch, and some of the popular political videos from Jib Jab. I decided to search with broad topics. First, I searched “democracy” and found quite a bit. Most would be over the heads of 5th graders. I decided to [...]
Jul
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Thing 18: 3 Uses for Podcasts in the classroom
July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This was so easy. I didn’t write out what I was going to say because I like the idea of being able to use this technology in a direct and simple way to communicate. I actually was able to embed the podcast into my blog on the second try which is very good for me!
Jul
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Thing 17: Podcasting
July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I really tried to manage my time when I sat down to do this task. I watched both videos and then, got started listening to podcasts. I listened to two student produced podcasts: 1)6th graders explaining Canada’s Federal Election, 2)5th graders in a podcast called Willowcast on the American Revolution which included narratives, poetry, and [...]
Jul
16
Thing 16: Library Thing
July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This was fun! I signed up for an account straight away because I know I will use this tool. I started to add Cynthia Rylant books to my library and gave them tags. I am becoming more comfortable in general with how to use tags. I even did the power edit to add and remove [...]
Jul
15
Thing 15: Delicious
July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Delicious is delicious but very fattening in terms of time. In our “culture of distraction,” it is a fine mind that can stay focused on the original task while swimming in the sea of information. I tried to stick to the task at hand. I explored delicious and got comfortable with various tags. I tried [...]
Jul
13
Thing 7C: Random Acts of Journalism
July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In Random Acts of Journalism, Andy Carvin attends a conference for journalists and ponders what skills need to be taught in schools for citizens to participate in our democracy. The following question sums up his post:
“How many people have within them the knowledge of how to form a local group and us the group to [...]
