Thursday, June 27, 2013

I checked out the blogs of the following fellow ECAPers and was very impressed!!!

http://davisale.blogspot.com

http://legoscriboque.blogspot.com

http://cwulfsbe.blogspot.com

goanimate

I made a short cartoon on Animoto.  This was easy and fun.  I could go broke paying for all the subscriptions to these websites.

I had such trouble getting students to bring supplies to class so I chose this as my topic.  It will definitely be something I will focus on when school starts.

cartoon
Digital story telling/Animoto

This was fun.  At some time in the future, I may upgrade so that I can make longer videos but this would definitely be useful in the classroom.  Although, I may not have time to make a video on every subject...

myvideo
Wiki...

I can see some benefits in using this kind of format.  If the science department is planning an experiment for all the 7th grade teachers, we could use this to make sure everyone has the supplies required.  Or, if we needed to compose a letter home to parents, each teacher could edit and add on without having to send it by email.

This format seemed the simplest out of all the ones presented in this module.

mywiki

Pinterest

I have been using Pinterest for awhile now and I am getting comfortable with it.  I have noticed that many of the teacher/educational ideas seem to be focused on elementary school.  I will continue to browse through it to find things applicable to the older students.

Science experiments

School supplies

Teaching

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w9_3C24_e8WoD7v4z3mLfTRVzTvHVtZslOe_lqOvp78/edit


I have created a google doc.  I have heard many teachers at the school referring to google docs and I could never figure out just how it worked.  I am impressed.  I really like the translate option.  I can send home notes to my Spanish speaking parents without harassing the bilingual teachers.
https://delicious.com/#mrsblanton

Above is the link to my delicious.com page.  I love the idea of delicious.  However, I am not sure that I am using it correctly.  I could not get the 'tag' button to work correctly but I could add links through the 'add link' option.  I will definitely revisit this topic to see if I can figure out what I am doing wrong.  Being able to organize my favorites and share them is an awesome idea.