Monday, November 28, 2011
Final Reflection
The course is slowly winding down and I am posting my final reflections on the Web 2.0 tools that I have been learning about. Please click on the pages to find my reflection of each tool.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Week 5 Reflection
Nov.13-Nov.19
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Introduce VoiceThread to class as a learning experience.
Add reflection to blog about students opinions and reactions to VoiceThread.
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Twitter post for this week is a new way to organize your desktop. It is called Symbaloo, you can get to the link here. You are able to put all of your most visited website in its own spot of the board and it will take you directly to where you need to go. Posted by @coolcatteacher (Vicki Davis).
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Introduce VoiceThread to class as a learning experience.
Add reflection to blog about students opinions and reactions to VoiceThread.
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Twitter post for this week is a new way to organize your desktop. It is called Symbaloo, you can get to the link here. You are able to put all of your most visited website in its own spot of the board and it will take you directly to where you need to go. Posted by @coolcatteacher (Vicki Davis).
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Week 4 Reflection
Nov.6-Nov.12
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Start preparing VoiceThread for class to learn and experiment with
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Add reflection to blog about experience with setting up of VoiceThread.
Twitter
I have found a very interesting article tweeted on Twitter (@ShellTerrel) that answers some of the questions that I have been pondering in relation to interactive whiteboards. In teaching with the interactive whiteboard, I too feel that sometimes the 'interactive' part is lost and it becomes a great video projector for teacher directed learning. I believe with time and skill development in the tool the interactive whiteboard can be more 'interactive' however to make a presentation to get to that point can be long and tedious. It is not the tool it is how we use it that makes it beneficial for the students.
How the Interactive Whiteboard is Really Ed Tech’s Laserdisk
Continuing learning with tools mentioned from above. Voicethread experience will come intime. Still sorting everything out!
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Start preparing VoiceThread for class to learn and experiment with
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Add reflection to blog about experience with setting up of VoiceThread.
I have found a very interesting article tweeted on Twitter (@ShellTerrel) that answers some of the questions that I have been pondering in relation to interactive whiteboards. In teaching with the interactive whiteboard, I too feel that sometimes the 'interactive' part is lost and it becomes a great video projector for teacher directed learning. I believe with time and skill development in the tool the interactive whiteboard can be more 'interactive' however to make a presentation to get to that point can be long and tedious. It is not the tool it is how we use it that makes it beneficial for the students.
How the Interactive Whiteboard is Really Ed Tech’s Laserdisk
Continuing learning with tools mentioned from above. Voicethread experience will come intime. Still sorting everything out!
Monday, November 7, 2011
Week 3 Reflection
Oct.30-Nov.5
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Have a Prezi for students as a starter for a lesson.
Update blog with any personal reflection on learning so far.
Add reflection about class wiki, what is working, what is not.
Add reflection to blog about Prezi.
Week 3 has been a technology challenge. I continue to follow Twitter and have found my weekly post as well as planned my school schedule using Google Calendar. I completed the Prezi to introduce the scientific method and now it is time to update my learning so far.
Twitter post this week, The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You, posted by edudemic and tweeted by Joyce Valenza (@joycevalenza). There is obviously a lot to take in while reading this post. There are so many tools ‘out-there’ that it can be very overwhelming! During this inquiry project we have to learn 6 tools and that seems to be plenty enough for a beginner! Maybe in time rereading the list won’t feel so overwhelming.
Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
Continue planning with Google Calendar.
Have a Prezi for students as a starter for a lesson.
Update blog with any personal reflection on learning so far.
Add reflection about class wiki, what is working, what is not.
Add reflection to blog about Prezi.
Week 3 has been a technology challenge. I continue to follow Twitter and have found my weekly post as well as planned my school schedule using Google Calendar. I completed the Prezi to introduce the scientific method and now it is time to update my learning so far.
Twitter post this week, The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You, posted by edudemic and tweeted by Joyce Valenza (@joycevalenza). There is obviously a lot to take in while reading this post. There are so many tools ‘out-there’ that it can be very overwhelming! During this inquiry project we have to learn 6 tools and that seems to be plenty enough for a beginner! Maybe in time rereading the list won’t feel so overwhelming.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Week 2 Reflection
Oct.23-Oct.29
1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Continue planning with Google Calendar, update personal blog with reflection about working with Google Calendar.
Following Twitter has been a learning experience for me. I am still finding a lot of tweets that are basic status updates or tweets back and forth as they follow each other. As I read tweets and do some simple searching around I do find articles that are interesting, but I have yet to really use it as a learning community network. I did find this article very interesting, the discussion topic is digital native vs. digital immigrants, by Dan Pontefract (@dpontefract)
The Fallacy of Digital Natives
This week I have used the class wiki in order for students to start learning and collaborating about character traits. It has been a learning process for the students and myself. I have set up the class into 4 different teams using the project option. I spent 20 minutes of class time having the students log onto the wiki and then making sure that they were each assigned to a team, some students could not remember their password or their account name. While getting everything organized the students were very involved with helping each other log onto the wiki and showing each other what to do. We then discussed exactly what a wiki is and the difference between a blog and a wiki. Throughout the week we worked on the wiki a couple of times. Students understand how to use the wiki, now we need to work on improving the content.
Setting up the Teams
Wiki Collaboration
I am continuing with Google Calendar. I enjoy the color-coding and the fact that I can just leave it open on my computer all day so that I can see my entire week plan. I realized that I needed to turn off the pop-up emails. I do find it tedious because I must change the time for every class.
1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Continue with optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Continue planning with Google Calendar, update personal blog with reflection about working with Google Calendar.
Following Twitter has been a learning experience for me. I am still finding a lot of tweets that are basic status updates or tweets back and forth as they follow each other. As I read tweets and do some simple searching around I do find articles that are interesting, but I have yet to really use it as a learning community network. I did find this article very interesting, the discussion topic is digital native vs. digital immigrants, by Dan Pontefract (@dpontefract)
The Fallacy of Digital Natives
This week I have used the class wiki in order for students to start learning and collaborating about character traits. It has been a learning process for the students and myself. I have set up the class into 4 different teams using the project option. I spent 20 minutes of class time having the students log onto the wiki and then making sure that they were each assigned to a team, some students could not remember their password or their account name. While getting everything organized the students were very involved with helping each other log onto the wiki and showing each other what to do. We then discussed exactly what a wiki is and the difference between a blog and a wiki. Throughout the week we worked on the wiki a couple of times. Students understand how to use the wiki, now we need to work on improving the content.
Setting up the Teams
Wiki Collaboration
I am continuing with Google Calendar. I enjoy the color-coding and the fact that I can just leave it open on my computer all day so that I can see my entire week plan. I realized that I needed to turn off the pop-up emails. I do find it tedious because I must change the time for every class.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Week 1 Reflection
Oct. 16-Oct. 22
1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Start optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Start setting up Google Calendar.
My first task this week was to follow Twitter, find an article that was tweeted, and post it to my blog. As I navigate through Twitter I continually find the amount of tweets overwhelming and I am only following 17 peoples’ tweets! I am still learning about hash marks and finding relevant tweeters to follow. I will have to do more playing with Twitter in order to achieve my goal of making it into my professional learning network. However, the goal was to post an article that was tweeted, so I chose Blogs and Blogging Ideas started by Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton). It is a long list of ideas that we, as teachers, can use on our own classroom blogs.
Blogs and Blogging Ideas
The Wiki collaboration has not started with my class yet. We are starting a new chapter book in reading class and I will be having the students collaborate on their thinking using the book Stone Fox. I hope that this week I will have some students ready and willing to do some collaboration on this project. You can check out the class wiki with the link below. There is an example of a student's voki, something we did get done this week!
3B Wiki
I have set up Google calendar for this upcoming week. I do like the convenience of being able to access the calendar anywhere with an Internet connection. One of the issues that I have with the calendar and with my school is that the school works on a 6-day cycle and the calendar goes days. Because of the 6-day cycle the days of the week are never the same, which means that I have to continually add all the specialist classes over and over again, this can make for a lot more work. Today I worked on the calendar for almost an hour changing the times, colors, etc. I will keep working on the calendar and was thinking that maybe I just need to add my classes to the calendar and not the classes that I am not teaching.
1. Follow Twitter, add one reading based on technology to blog.
2. Start optional wiki collaboration with class.
3. Start setting up Google Calendar.
My first task this week was to follow Twitter, find an article that was tweeted, and post it to my blog. As I navigate through Twitter I continually find the amount of tweets overwhelming and I am only following 17 peoples’ tweets! I am still learning about hash marks and finding relevant tweeters to follow. I will have to do more playing with Twitter in order to achieve my goal of making it into my professional learning network. However, the goal was to post an article that was tweeted, so I chose Blogs and Blogging Ideas started by Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton). It is a long list of ideas that we, as teachers, can use on our own classroom blogs.
Blogs and Blogging Ideas
The Wiki collaboration has not started with my class yet. We are starting a new chapter book in reading class and I will be having the students collaborate on their thinking using the book Stone Fox. I hope that this week I will have some students ready and willing to do some collaboration on this project. You can check out the class wiki with the link below. There is an example of a student's voki, something we did get done this week!
3B Wiki
I have set up Google calendar for this upcoming week. I do like the convenience of being able to access the calendar anywhere with an Internet connection. One of the issues that I have with the calendar and with my school is that the school works on a 6-day cycle and the calendar goes days. Because of the 6-day cycle the days of the week are never the same, which means that I have to continually add all the specialist classes over and over again, this can make for a lot more work. Today I worked on the calendar for almost an hour changing the times, colors, etc. I will keep working on the calendar and was thinking that maybe I just need to add my classes to the calendar and not the classes that I am not teaching.
Monday, October 17, 2011
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