Teachertube was great in some of the same ways but also a great forum for teachers to get new ideas and ways to not only teach but classroom management and tricks and tips to a better classroom.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Thing #18
The amazing adventure of YouTube and TeacherTube. I love them and I am always finding new things out there to help the students. Maybe not enough but I am definitely going to be using it more now that I know how much s out there and how much is out there spoken by kids and how that helps students learn so much more than a stupid adult at the from of the room. I found many clips on PEMDAS ( order of operations song) which is coming up and few on variables and expressions which is also next in class. I even found some to help reteach topics that were not great on the last Milestone so maybe there will be better luck with another person saying it and seeing it in a different way.
Thing #17
Podcasts and video casts...there is a vast amount of materials out on the world wide web that I just found and I was amazed by how much was out there. I found a couple of math site on iTunes that I truly enjoyed, there was all about math and Miss Davis' Math Magic. I viewed a few from each site and loved all that I viewed they helped give another way to teach a topic. The videos were a little mono-toned or not so easy to follow the steps that were happening. So if I were to use them in the classroom I might need to spice it up or give commentary as we move through the video. They were helpful and had tones of great new ideas.
I have used an iPod for a few years and now have an iPhone. I can access the podcasts on my phone or iPod and can preview them at home and take them to school on one of my devices. It is great to look through the material and transport it to where it needs to be. I can even look for new casts on my iPhone as I need as well. This have a great deal of opportunities for me!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Thing #16
The Library Thing, this sounded amazing and was fun to work with. I enjoyed having them find me books that I might enjoy based upon a previous read. I liked some of the books but it was nice to see what I might like based on this information and then I can read up on the book instead of just hitting the books with no game plan in mind. It was a amazing to see the number of people that are interested in the books that I am reading and then being able to chat about the book. It is not always achievable to have a conversation about the book you are reading because you do not know of any one else reading the book to comment and talk about everything happening and changing or waiting for the next book in the series to arrive or to even have someone be like well the series took a turn for the worst just stop where you are at now and call it an end to a beginning. I loved this site and can't wait to dig more into it!
Thing #15
Delicious, I have used this website for a while now. I had forgotten about this for awhile and had not been adding more sites as I went. It is a great site because then you do not have to bog down your personal bookmarks on your computer to get all the sites that you want on your computer and then switch to a different computer and then they are all gone. It is especially helpful in school. there are many times I find a site on my laptop working from home and go to school and try to remember where I went and which sites were better than others. On top of it all it is a great help when you have been working at school go home and did not bring the laptop or the list of site to go to, so you just got o delicious and there they all are just waiting for you to use!
Thing #7a
Google Reader...lots to read and lots to process. I am always trying to find ways to use Math cross curriculum. And well my google reader helped. It showed me 65 mysteries to solve with Math. They are mathematical but include reading and science, you can also incorporate english as well with the grammatical side with complete sentences in the answer section. I have found quite a few of these on the internet and wish that I had the money to purchase and use some of these in the classroom on a daily basis. these little one minute mysteries sound amazing and something that will increase math but also not be so mathematical that the kids will not want to try and solve the mystery.
Thing #14
These were amazing. I really enjoyed this session. I created jigsaw puzzles as well as played some of the pre made puzzles. These can be used for many things in classes, create their own puzzles, use problem solving strategies and use as a brain teaser to stimulate thinking strategies in the students.
The above was the favorite puzzles that I played with on this site.
I also looking into Quizlet. This was a creative way to make and share tests and things with the rest of the world. I It was neat to explore and see what is out there.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thing #13
Creating images was amazing and fun. I love this, I have always wondered how so many people were able to create these fun signs and use them for their own use in their classrooms and in life. I have seen things like this everywhere and now I can create my own to use. The websites were extremely helpful and helped you go step by step to create and use their products. I even went as far to see how much it would cost to purchase some of the signs I made and it was not really that expensive. I loves you can move and arrange also all of the sign, put as much or little on the sign. I had fun creating license plates and biohazard signs. Love this it was awesome.
To create biohazard sign you just put your text in the box, picked size and where you wanted it placed, pushed the button to change the text and done. The Beware sign was
the same way. Most signs on this site were done in the same manner.
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