Tool #5

Tool 5 brought me to the Diigo website (love the name!) to learn about organizing my websites with tags so I can retrieve them on any computer and find what I am looking for easily (would have been so helpful to know this before my research paper!!). Nonetheless, from now on I will be accessing this useful tool frequently. The sharing part is even more powerful...sharing websites is the best because it reduces the amount of searching online...I can potentially find what I need faster by checking a site a colleague shares! Technology at its best!!

I visited and tagged two new websites: www.learnandserve.gov is a great website to learn about how and where I can volunteer in my community and at www.ivyjoy.com/fables/ I can access text from nursery rhymes, fables, and fairy tales to project on the Activboard for shared reading or even as a workstation to read and locate rhyming words, sight words, practice phrasing and fluency, etc.

Will I ever finish on time? stick around to find out! :)

Tool #4

Hi there!
I had the opportunity to explore Google docs and Google Reader today.

Google docs is another word processing tool that is useful for creating and sharing documents with teammates and with students for a variety of purposes. It can make revising and editing documents between students and teacher more convenient.

Google reader allowed me to subscribe to websites I enjoy visiting so the information is more easily accessible, organized, and updated all on one page. I can see us finding educational feeds and sharing them with our students-digital literacy!!!

Goodbye for now! :)

Tool #3

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

I'm back and blogging after a long rest! The deadline woke me up! I enjoyed creating my little video! It took me a while to edit it (ask Ivonne!) so it could be somewhat presentable.

I love how creating presentations such as this one can help students showcase their thinking process and creativity around something new they learned.

I had a good time with Wordle playing around with the arrangement of the words. This tool would be motivating and easy for students to "manipulate" words to enhance word study. The possibilities are endless! :)

Tool #2

Hello! This tool proved to be loads of fun and laughs just like the first one! Now that I am up and running...blogging here and there...it feels awesome to be connected to wonderful educators across the district. I love the fact that I can share, reflect, and learn in a community of talented teachers...we are all learners and one of the best ways to learn is from each other!

The commenting advice served as a reminder that being humble and gracious is always the best way to go!

Once I started posting comments...I didn't want to stop! I wanted to visit everyone's blog and comment; however, time wasn't on my side!
Blogs I visited and commented on were...
Rosaura's blog
RGEdavisi
Discovering Technology for Education
11 Tools for Learning
Vivian's Blog
First Grade Tech
RGE Technology

2 down...9 to go!!!! hehehe! Blog you later!

Tool #1

Hello friends!

We had a great time setting up our blogs over coffee at this nice coffee shop in memorial. It was fun and frustrating at the same time!! hehehe Can't wait to hear from you!

Michelle