Thing #14

I explored writeboard. My experience with whiteboard taught me many new aspects about Web 2.0 tools. Whiteboard is a place where you can type and save a document. You are able to do most basic formatting to the document. Then you save and send your partner the URL and the password to your document. Then students are able to retrieve their work from any computer at any time. So, you are able to share and collaborate with partners on documents. Then they can help revise, share and edit your document. There are many ideas for using this tool to support learning. You can have your students write a story and then the partner can revise the story. Students will not have to hand write their work and then rewrite it when the revisions are finished. I think students will be able to communicate with each other and offer genuine feedback on their work.

Thing #13

1. Luna in denial, ringing out the old Year of the Dog and in the New Year of the White Tiger 2010, 2. Ella the Snow Dog, 3. Dog niemiecki 6 tygodni- Great Dane - 6 weeks puppy, 4. This is either the most boring game of Chicken known to dog or the most improbable "staring game" ever played.

I love that I am able to make any image that I may ever need. I will be able to use these tools in my classroom to make pictures. I can also motivate students to use their creativity. I use the Mosaic Maker to make a collage of pictures of dogs. I love dogs. It was so much easier than I thought it would be. I found pictures on Flickr. I have listed the links to the pictures. My students will be able to show me their ability to tell a story with the mosaics. They can look for pictures to describe the events in their story and then build a beautiful product to present. I also spelled the word “create”, because it came to my mind. I used Spell with Flickr to make the image. This website is also very easy to use. I can invite students to spell their spelling words using images. Sometimes I hesitate to try websites like these, because they seem too hard. Now, I know that I can use them easily. I am confident that I will be able to implement these tools.

Thing #12

This was not a very hard thing to do! I feel confident that I will be able to use a slideshow similar to this for my class room. My slideshow is about happiness. I tried to find pictures that depicted a happy thing. I found a picture of a black dog from Kopfjäger. No name was given to the picture. This dog looked happy. Then I found the picture of a smiley face taken by Lel4nd called “Remember to Smile”. This can brighten anyone’s day if seen bouncing around. I found the picture of the cutest dog ever. The photographer is Jelene and she titled her picture “Smiling Lacey”. The slide show makes me feel happy and I smile looking at it.
These are the pictures I used:
1. Black dog by Kopfjäger No name given
2. Smiley face by Lel4nd Remember to Smile
3. Cute Dog by Jelene Smiling Lacey

Thing #11

I had no idea that Flickr existed. I am learning so much about what is out on the internet. Flickr has so many pictures and themes to choose from that I was not sure where to start. It provides a place where people can come together to share and communicate their experiences. I searched the words smiling, happy, content and excitement. I got many pictures. I liked the picture of animals that are smiling especially dogs. I liked this picture from the photographer Jelene. I believe the story that I could tell with pictures could depict anything that makes happiness. I found some pictures living and nonliving things; for example, a picture of a smiley face, animals smiling and people smiling. I think this is a great idea to teach vocabulary. I could use pictures that ask you to feel a certain way, to teach emotion and description in writing. Students can see the picture and give descriptive words that come to mind when they see the picture. This will help their vocabulary development of synonyms. They can relate to an image and visualize it to convey their feelings. I will use pictures to make lessons more meaningful to my students.

Thing #10

CC seams to give us the liberty to get information and be able use it to fit our needs. I had never noticed the CC on websites before. I always knew that everything had a copyright. I will be able to teach students how they can add more value to what they find on the internet as they do research. I can invite them to use information and give it a new use also. I have not used anything from the web in fear that I was infringing on the copyright. I do not share information on the web, but I may start. Everything that I use to teach is property of the school. I cannot think of any negatives to CC. I know that this information will help me use more web information in the future.

Thing #9

Foxpage is complete! I did it! I was able to make a sandbox page. I had to work at it for hours. I am not very tech savvy. I amazed at how much I still do not know how to do. I started by logging into the wikispace. I had no idea how to do that. Then I gave my new page a name, Foxpage. I made my table of contents. At first the toc was actually on the page, but I managed to fix it. Then I gave each of the headings name. I had to go to the cheat sheet to get the information about headings. After that I made my favorites list. My question is the never ending- What came first the chicken or the egg. I love the discussion. I added a picture. That took me a while, but I did it. I make a Voki!
I am so proud of myself. I was able to figure everything out by trial and error. It is a wonderful thing to find answers while learning to do something. Now, I feel so confident that I can figure anything out. I still do not know where the Our Sandbox Page, but I will find it.

Thing #8

After reading Read Vicki Davis' blog post Wiki Wiki Teaching I do feel that I will be using a wiki to create a sense of community, accountability and ownership in my students. I think that I give students the possibility to use wikis to learn from each other and be more interested in creating their own learning. I would like to use a wiki to build an online books where students can write and exchange stories.

1001 Flat World Tales is such an amazing idea. I do not think that I would have never thought of anything like it. These wiki gives students the opportunity peer edit and revise their work. They will write stories that their classmates can draft and revise until the King or three or four of classmates judge the story as good enough to allow to survival. If survival is allowed to a bad story teller the Kings will be graded accordingly. This project is able to hold students accountable and they can see others work as it progresses and get better.

Code Blue wiki is used for students to learn about the human body by opening their own online "medical clinic." This is good idea. I like that the students work together in the same clinic; however, I was not able to see the growth and collaborative work that I was hoping for in a wiki. The students were all working in groups of clinics, but I was not able to understand how this was an ongoing exchange of ideas and progression in learning.

Discovery Utopias wiki students answer "all of the great questions" of society and move toward to a mutual agreement about social order. This wiki is well organized. I was able to see the projects. The students had a specific order to their society. They were able to see others progression of ideas and gain information and justification for their projects.

I love the idea of using a wiki to give students the tools needed to be in charge of their discovery.