Podcasting

I created this podcast for students at a learning stations in my classroom.  Students will listen to a section of The Reptile Room and Where the Red Fern Grows.  All directions are on the podcast and students will follow the directions.

Final Reflection thing #23

I have really enjoyed this assignment and have learned about many new things.  I have already used some items in my classroom over the past school year and plan to use more.  I love using Wordle and the kids enjoy this as well. 

I do believe this helped me understand the 5NETS-T standards better.  It really gave me a better understanding of the standard to promote digital citizenship. 

I would love to use the 23 things format with other educators or with my students.  I have enjoyed blogging and want to encourage other to blog as well. 

Conference Thing # 22

While at the West Virginia State Technology Conference, I attended a wonderful session called, iDevice App Share.  The presenter was a TIS from Kanawha County Schools named Lori Whitt.  I learn about many valuable apps to use in the classroom, as well as to use for personal use.  All of the teachers in attendance to this session shared their favorite apps and I left this session with a 12 page document filled with hundreds of apps and descriptions.  I have used this and shared it with many other educators.  I felt this was very valuable for me because I have an ipad lab. 

Webinar Thing #21

I have attended many webinars, but my favorite has been about QR Codes.  It was titled QR Codes in the Classroom and was lead by Kim Caise.  Classroom 2.0 hosted the webinar and have some great webinars available through iTunes.  I watched this to help myself create my own QR code on thing 10.  There were many different examples of classroom ideas for uses of QR Codes.  My favorite was a periodic table that offered a QR Code for each element and when you scanned the code there was information all about the element.  I wish using QR Codes was a reality in my classroom.  I may try to have the create one this year as a project.

Creative Commons Thing #20

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2632484845/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Skype Thing #19

I would love to connect with educators from other counties/states and have all our classes read the same book at the same time.  We could get our students together via Skype to have discussions.  This way student could see thing from different perspectives, or realize other students from other places see things the same way they do. 

AUP Thing #18

http://boe.wvlink.com/upshurschools/all-docs/doc_download/601-acceptable-use-policy-from-cipa

I do not think this plan is as current as it could be.  It has been the same as long as I can remember.  There is not a section for web 2.0 tools in the policy.My school is seperated into teams.  THe teacher team leader of each team is in charge of collecting and keeping tract of which students are not allowed on the internet.  Those students are just required to complete research in other ways until the school conselor can call a parent or gaurdian to speak to them about the internet use.  Our TIS sends out emails with the students not allowed to use the internet.  This is all completed the first week of school.

Twitter in the Classroom Thing #17

I would like to use twitter in my classroom, however it is a blocked site at my school.  I would like to give students a preview of what to expect each day for class.  They could give me input on the daily activities.  I would also love to use it for book discussions.

Twiddla Thing #16

Twiddla is a fun site to work on.  I plan to use this site for discussions in class.

RSS Thing #15

RSS-a place to read all your favorite updated news and blogs from one place.

Be a reader of Blogs Thing #14

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

What an amazing up-to-date blog site for educators.  There is a different topic and link to information daily on this blog.  I found some very useful information.

Mid-Module Reflection Thing #13

I have learned so much about web tools through this experience.  I can not wait to share these tools with other educators and use them in my own classroom. 

Find Something New Thing #12

http://www.go2web20.net/site/?a=Popplet

The popplet site allows your students to brainstorm together to create a web for writing or any topic.  It is bright and colorful.  Students would like it.

Learn from a video Thing #11

The videos I watched were created by fifth grade students about idioms.  They were created by ASL students.  I think it would be neat to introduce idioms, show a few of these videos to the students and then have students create their own idiom videos. 

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=79502&title=Idioms_in_ASL__Eyes_in_the_back_of_your_Head

RLA.O.4.1.11

distinguish between the ways in which language is used in literary texts: simile metaphor idioms analogies puns