I did a class calendar as my cloud computing. I did not know that you could have multiple calendars and that you could share just one of your calendars!
I am excited to use this on my website and share it with parents! I think this will be very a very helpful tool for parents. I really want them using my website to find information and help answer questions The Google calendar will allow them to not only know what is going on, but also to find important dates and hopefully answer questions easily! The one thing I need to remember to do is to make every event public. I am worried that I will forget and because I will still be able to see it on my calendar, I won't know that others can't.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Activity 6
The assignment for this week was hard for me. Study tools are not something we use a lot in Kindergarten. I decided to play around with most of the tools to see how I liked them. I started with Studyblue thinking that I could use it for sight words- using audio or for position words with a picture; however, when I went to do this it required a finical upgrade to be able to use more then just text in your flash cards.
Since I wasn't sure how I would use these tools in Kindergarten I decided to try a couple of the others and just make them more personal, not school related.
Here is a timeline from when my husband and I met to when we got married. I really liked Timetoast's layout abilities. I like that you can view it easily as a timeline or as events in text, without being overwhelmed by either layout. I still haven't thought about how I would really use it with Kindergarten, but feel that it could be a very powerful teaching tool! The only way I could see using it, is as a way to document our class activities. It would be fun way to share with students and parents the main events of the year! One thing I didn't like about it was that you had to put an exact date into it. If you could be more vague about the date it would allow me to use it in more ways, like as a sequencing tool.
I also did a Tagxedo because it reminded me of Wordle and I thought that would be fun to do. I used the lyrics of my wedding song. I can see using this in school for a number of activities! One thing I did with Wordle was to do an adjective lesson where students wrote down adjectives describing each student in the class and then students typed their list into Wordle to see the words that describe them. I think activities like this wold be great to do as a whole class with Tagxedo and then be able to choose your layout!!! It would be a fun way to show what your class had learned about a unit, or you could do a small group author study or character analysis!!
Since I wasn't sure how I would use these tools in Kindergarten I decided to try a couple of the others and just make them more personal, not school related.
Here is a timeline from when my husband and I met to when we got married. I really liked Timetoast's layout abilities. I like that you can view it easily as a timeline or as events in text, without being overwhelmed by either layout. I still haven't thought about how I would really use it with Kindergarten, but feel that it could be a very powerful teaching tool! The only way I could see using it, is as a way to document our class activities. It would be fun way to share with students and parents the main events of the year! One thing I didn't like about it was that you had to put an exact date into it. If you could be more vague about the date it would allow me to use it in more ways, like as a sequencing tool.
I also did a Tagxedo because it reminded me of Wordle and I thought that would be fun to do. I used the lyrics of my wedding song. I can see using this in school for a number of activities! One thing I did with Wordle was to do an adjective lesson where students wrote down adjectives describing each student in the class and then students typed their list into Wordle to see the words that describe them. I think activities like this wold be great to do as a whole class with Tagxedo and then be able to choose your layout!!! It would be a fun way to show what your class had learned about a unit, or you could do a small group author study or character analysis!!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Activity 4 and 5
I used SMART Recorder to create a screen cast to help my students open up the internet and find links to websites that are listed on our schools website! I also created a YouTube account so that parents can then find this screen cast and know how to access websites for their children.
SMART Recorder was VERY easy to use. It took about 10 mins from start to finish! I see myself using this in many ways. I teach computer skills, so screen casting will be very helpful! I know I will use this specific screen cast, and because it was so easy I already have ideas of other step by steps that I would like to record!!
Uploading a YouTube video was also very easy! I like the idea of parents and students being able to find videos and screen casts that I use/like. I see myself using this tool of our Gmail! I wonder what else our Gmail offers that I didn't know about???:)
SMART Recorder was VERY easy to use. It took about 10 mins from start to finish! I see myself using this in many ways. I teach computer skills, so screen casting will be very helpful! I know I will use this specific screen cast, and because it was so easy I already have ideas of other step by steps that I would like to record!!
Uploading a YouTube video was also very easy! I like the idea of parents and students being able to find videos and screen casts that I use/like. I see myself using this tool of our Gmail! I wonder what else our Gmail offers that I didn't know about???:)
Activity 3
I created a Storybird book focusing on the letters and their sounds based on our Jolly Phonics program.
Storybird was easy to use, but I don't know if I really see myself using it in the classroom. I didn't find their selection of photos to be very good, and would have preferred to be able to to search for certain images more like a clip art selection. I could see possibility using it with my students. I think they would like to create their own stories with Storybird or do a class book/writing with Storybird, but I don't think I will use it too often with me creating something to help me teach/relay information.
Storybird was easy to use, but I don't know if I really see myself using it in the classroom. I didn't find their selection of photos to be very good, and would have preferred to be able to to search for certain images more like a clip art selection. I could see possibility using it with my students. I think they would like to create their own stories with Storybird or do a class book/writing with Storybird, but I don't think I will use it too often with me creating something to help me teach/relay information.
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