Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2009 No Comments »
This has been an interesting class, and I’m happy to say that I figured it all out myself for the most part, thanks to good directions. I had some concerns about taking this class without on-site tech support, but by experiencing the glitches and snafus along the way, I am better prepared to help our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s a link to an article in Reading Rockets, About That Pesky Summer Reading List. It addresses the summer slide.
Photo by DocteurCosmos
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Free voluntary reading is a concept to which I subscribe in a limited way. I enjoy Stephen Krashen’s writings and regularly read Donalyn Miller’s blog, The Book Whisperer. Both of them have changed my ideas regarding summer reading for our students, with caveats. Miller’s June 22 blog posting references a post by Kate Messner, In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I found many (too many!) items of interest on Classroom 2.0. While exploring Forums, I came across a discussion on using GoogleEarth for math (Real World Math), which was pretty interesting to me as a math teacher. There were groups for beginning Classroom 2.0 users as well as for any other topic you might imagine. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Pageflakes is not exactly floating my boat, and I think it is a visual thing. I know that you can make it more or less cluttered with different tabs and that you can change the theme, but I could not get satisfied with the look. I do see the usefulness of using [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
I really should have read all the directions first. However, I learn best by doing, and redoing, and redoing, so I’ve had a lot of practice.
At first I thought I would be able to use an experimental Jing video (Reading Levels in Surpass, see below) as my podcast. I managed to get it all together, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Glory be! I’ve tried to use Google Docs before and could never figure out how to share with someone so they could edit or even access it. Admittedly, I didn’t spend a huge amount of time doing this, but I’m happy to have the solution now.
One way I’ve used Google Docs before is to upload [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2009 No Comments »
First let me say that I did severely limit the time I spent perusing YouTube and TeacherTube. However, it was not that difficult to find several items of interest to me. Prominent in my thoughts was the fact that the squirrels are beating me to my best Cherokee Purple tomatoes, so I searched squirrels and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
I visited two podcast sites: The Education Podcast Network and NPR. From EPN I listened to two podcasts Teaching with SMARTBoard, specifically for math but with other topics included. Both topics were useful, and I plan to revisit to tailor some activities to library skills. The authors chat a bit too much in the beginning [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
This class has given me the incentive to put into place a project I have pondered for a while. I try to read or listen to as many children’s books as possible so that I can put the perfect book into a student’s hand. I have noticed that I have a tendency to forget about [...]
