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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 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
20
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
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 14: Tools
July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
The potential of all the tools listed is astounding! I didn’t actually create anything but my 11 year old son has a website on Weebly. He draws comics and posts them on his own website. His friends go to the website to read his comic strip which is about being a 5th grader. Other tools [...]
Jul
13
Thing 13: Online Conferences
July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is an incredible resource. I went to a workshop called “Web 2.0 Classroom” given by Anne Davis who teaches at Georgia State University. She gave brief descriptions of many of the tools we have been learning about with links to actual classrooms using these tools. It made all of this very practical and real. [...]
