Thing #11

I love LibraryThing. If I taught Language Arts, I would have my students keep track of the different books that they read and have them add reviews of books and use the suggestions to help them select other books. I added some personal and professional books that I have read. It was interesting to read other people's reviews. I will play around with this more in the future. Look for my screen name carrieag01.

Thing #10

I had fun creating a comic strip. I also made a wordle, but I'll have to paste it from another computer since this computer wouldn't cooperate. I would like to use the sign creator, motivational posters, wordle, comic strip creator, and trading cards in the classroom. Last year my students struggled with vocabulary in math and science. I want them to use these tools to visulaize the words that they need to learn.

Thing #9

Which Search tool was the easiest for you?

Edublogs was the easiest to search through. Google Blog will be easier if I can find the right search words.

Which was more confusing?

The Google Blog search didn't help me that much. When I searched for SBISD or Spring Branch ISD, I found mostly political ramblings from different bloggers. There is definitely a need for more teachers to collaborate through educational blogs. I am interested in blogs and different collaboration tools to help teachers share ideas. I didn't like how you had to register to access Bloglines search.

What kind of useful feeds did you find in your travels? Or what kind of unusual ones did you find?

I am still searching for some great blogs! I will post them in the comments! I haven't found many math teacher blogs... surprisingly!

Thing #8

What do you like about RSS and readers?

I like how I can log into one place to get all of my updated blog entries and news articles.

How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your school or personal life?

Personally, I will use it to streamline my web browsing of news. Schoolwise, I can make a feed reader that I can link through my blog to include science and math information. I can also create one for other childcare parents on important early childhood articles.

How can libraries/teachers/administrators use readers or take advantage of this new technology?

We can create Feeds for students to read up about current information in different academic disciplines.

Thing #7

Google Docs
I want to use this for collaborating with my co-workers, as well as sharing information with other parents at Bendwood. I would love to include information on our grade level blog and link to PDF or documents. Here is my sample.

Google Calendar
I absolutely love google calendar. I have created different calendars and I like how you can color code and overlay them on top of each other. I set the daily agenda reminders so I get an email every morning letting me know what is going on that day. I created a SBISD calendar to use with my grade level blog. I will post it on the bottom of my team blog. I also like how you can copy events from one calendar to another. Here is my SBISD Calendar. I'll add TAKS dates later.

Thing #6

The mashups are really neat. I plan on using the Trading Card Maker this year in science. The students can make trading cards about various concepts and share them with the class. I also want to make some motivational posters. Using my own pictures should be fun! I want my students to learn about Flickr and how to appropriately use the site to save pictures. Students are not very clear about copyright laws and we need to start early to educate them on correct use of internet resources.

Thing #5

I enjoyed searching Flickr. I plan on using this to search for Science images to integrate with my science units. I love this picture of the clouds. We do learn about different types of clouds. Also, with all the rain and cloudy days recently, my son and I have been talking about different clouds.


Photo by Kevindooley