Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
PE6
The drawing tools in Google Docs is very very basic but user friendly. Microsoft Office has better tools for drawing and presentation than Google Docs. The younger children might enjoy this but the older children will be challenged in the more advanced drawing tools in Microsoft Office.
PE5
In my search to find a file format that would allow me to upload a student Ancient Egypt project to Google Doc I tried ScreenFlow. I was successful at uploading the ScreenFlow to Google Doc for viewing and sharing. I can use ScreenFlow all-in-one Flash video presentation tool to record the student presentations and post them out to a WebPages or blogs to share with staff and parents. Below you can view a sample of two of my students group project created in Powerpoint and captured in ScreenFlow. I will use this process to post sample projects to my website which is part of my AR project.
PE4
Google Docs is a tool I plan to share with staff and students as a tool for collaboration. The 6th grade students create a PowerPoint project on Ancient Egypt. They are broken up in teams of two to work on the project. They work on their slides individually and join at the end to combine the slides into one project. Sometimes they cannot come to the lab at the same time as their partner, which makes it difficult to complete the projects as a team. Google Docs is a tool, which will help with this dilemma. The students can post the project to Google Docs and each students can update the project from anywhere at anytime as needed. The students can use the chat tools in Google Docs to collaborate about the project and to analyze other projects.
Students can upload and save their PowerPoint projects to Google Docs as .ppt files, however the maximum file size is 10 mg and the animations and music will not work in Google Docs. The tools of the presentation part of Google Docs are limited.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
BP9
http://www.tech4learning.com/recipes
Tech4Learning is a Web 2.0 resource tool, which will help teachers to be successful in the classroom. An education technology publisher, Constructivist Consortium designed this open-ended technology tool to provide students and teachers with the platform to engage, create and share. The tools are designed to promote the 21st Century tools, which include:
· Creativity and Innovation
· Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
· Communication and Collaboration
Some of the resource tools offered in Tech4Learning are
The tool I found to be most helpful for my Action Research is Recipes4Sucess. Recipes4Sucess is subscription service supports technology integration and provides training tutorials for common software titles often used in the classroom. These step-by step-learning modules would be good to use during a professional development day to guide staff through learning new applications. The training lessons are leveled for all learning abilities from Beginner to fluent learning’s and address all learning styles. You can download printable or online tutorials. There are proficiency assessments, which can guide you to the proper level of training matched to your current abilities. The customizable training modules can be used for a series of professional development training sessions throughout the year. Students as well as teachers can use these 1-hour training modules. Level one starts at second grade level or a beginning adult level.
You can sign up for a 45-day trial period by going to http://www.tech4learning.com/recipes and start to explore ways you can use this tool in your classroom.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
BP8 OMM Bookr
BP5
Try This Web 2.0 Tool…
Bookr
In my constant search to find creative and fun ways to motivate my students in the classroom, I found a 2.0 web tool called Bookr. Bookr is a tool where students can create and share photobooks using images they find in Flickr. Imagine the creativity you can add to teaching Ancient Egypt, Place values, the water cycle or various other academic concepts though digital storytelling. Digital storybooks can be easily integrated into an existing Writing, Social Studies, Science, and Math curriculum project. Bookr can allow for supplemental learning to the traditional lecture by demonstrating what they have learned through hands on learning. Completing a project as a group in Bookr will increase collaborating and cooperative peer-to-peer learning. To implement Bookr in your classroom you will began by having the students research and compile information for the script and ideas for their digital storybook. Then the students will prepare a storyboard where they will begin to map out the ideas of the storybook. Next, the students began to gather images for the storybook using Flickr. Then finally the students will compile the graphics and text into a demonstration of their knowledge of the content learned. Once the project is completed, the students can present the project in various ways. They can present the project to the class, archived the finished project to the site or send the link to friends and family or post the embed code to a bloew tool you will enjoy a wealth of Web 2.0 tools you can use in your classroom if you visit http://www.pimpampum.net/.
Dupain, P. M., & Maguire, M. E. (2005 ). 21st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Digital Story Book Projects 101: How to Create and Implement Digital Storytelling Into Your Curriculum. 05-06, pp. 1-4. Wisconsin: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
Fuster, A., & Julià, D. (2006). Bookr. Retrieved October 10, 2010, from PIMPAMPUM.net: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php
Monday, October 4, 2010
BP4
Illustration was drawn by Brenda McGee in draw.to
I found a free site I will use with the K-6 students in my school and it is a Web 2.0 tool called draw. to.
In Draw.to, you can draw whatever you like and share it. You can create your own drawing or add to existing drawings already posted to the site. You can create diagrams, cards, full color drawings that you can share out to friends and family via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, or anywhere you can embed and paste a link. Draw.to also works on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
This site is very simple to use and would be engaging for the young students as well as the older students. Students will enjoy using draw.to as a drawing tool as well as a collaboration tool for projects. Part of the technology standards includes teaching the students various drawing skills. I normally use the Microsoft Word drawing tools or Kid Pix but draw.to is easier to use and would provide for a web-based alternative. The students will enjoy posting illustrations that they can share with their parents, family and friends.
My third grade students create a field trip book throughout the year where they write stories and add pictures. I am planning to expand this project to creating a blog or a website where the students can share their experiences virtually. I will have the students use draw.to to compliment their writings of the field trip experience.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
BP1_Google Reader.
Below you will find a list of exciting technology RSS Feeds I subscribed to and added to the Web 2.0 tool Google Reader. I included five RSS Feeds where the primary focus was on Integrating Technology into the classroom.
Choose five (5) RSS feeds to follow for your professional purposes. For your first blog post, list your choices along with a description of why you chose the feed and how it is important to your profession. You are writing to inform your audience about the particular site. Link either the title or text within your description to the original site for reader access.
PBS Teachers learning.now Andy Carvin takes a long hard look at how the new Web 2.0 tools is changing the way we teach and learn
iLearn Technology. This site contains a variety of resourceful ways a teacher can integrate technology into the classroom.
The Savvy Technologist. This site has a wealth of information for anyone working in the technology educational field and want to stay current on the k the latest technology trends.
Free Technology for Teachers. I am excited about this blog site because I can see where it can be very resourceful. There are many technology integration projects on this blog.
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