Tag Cloud and Social Bookmarks

 Delicious is an excellent tool to remember and mark great sites that you have found over time. Usually one site leads to another great site and it is nice to be able to go to one place and have all your favorite and useful sites there. I am amazed at all the resources that I have found and bookmarked. I plan on searching for more. It is such a great way to share the educational sites and tools with students and peers. This is a perfect place to make the classroom an exciting place. Below is the URL link to my social bookmarks at Delicious.

Angie's Delicious Social Bookmarks

Google Reader

I have found that the depth of knowledge and resources when exploring these blogs has been helpful, informative and rewarding! The more you read, the more you learn. I need to take a day just to share what I've learned with my co-workers. I loved it and I know they will too! If only I had enough time in my day to do all I want to do! (sigh) Organizing and multi-tasking, to make every minute count, has been  required tools in the educational classroom. As well as it always has been, but, EVEN more so today with all the added on responsibilities we as teachers have on us. These blogs have been a great tool for me. My favorite (which is really difficult to choose) is the Media Specialists Guide WOW! They have so much to share! The blog post that was my favorite and can/will use in my classroom is 86 Online Sites that gives you places to access videos. I had access to unitedstreaming two years ago and loved it. But, because of budget cuts we no longer had access to this site. I love using video to accentuate a skill or emphasize a topic. This will give me lots of choices for my classroom. I also loved Inside Angela's 4th Grade Classroom because she and I both teach 4th grade and the site is useful. I loved the moon phases that her classroom created using Oreo cookies. :) Below are the seven educational blogs I subscribed to.

Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet

CoolCatTeacher

Free Technology for Teachers

Inside Angela's 4th Grade Class

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day

Will Richardson

Teachers Love Smartboards

I also enjoyed these two blogs as well:
I Learn Technology
Smart Classroom Management

Digital Citizenship

Why is it important to be a good digital citizen? One should strive to be a good citizen and this includes on the internet as well. To be courteous to others and to be honest in what we do. This includes any social networking or researching of sites and information found on the internet. Give credit to others when due. It is important to protect our children in this digital age and to teach them how to be a good digital citizen so as to protect them from their vulnerability. The value of a good digital reputation goes hand in hand with the reputation we hold in public as well as what we do in private. Follow the 'golden rule' on the internet and be sure to protect your privacy.  I like to build people up and be positive rather than tear down and destroy. Sometimes, it is hard not to take things personally, but it is best to refrain from sharing 'a piece of your mind' with someone and just move on.

p.201 #1 post

This week I explored the Thinkport website. I clicked on simulations and received an error page every time I tried. I will continue to try that link and report the error to the site. I researched the rest of the site and found many great sources that will be used in my classroom. Some of these were as simple as the timer. This was very easy to get to and control. Next, the timeline resource was amazing and will be very helpful with my students when studying history or science. Which then lead me to the American Civil War site that I found! They also had a great list of graphic organizers that I will be accessing. Thinkport is a treasure trove of ideas and resources! Enjoyed the exploration and will continue searching on this site! :)Thinkport

Robyler p.105 #1

I visited the sites that were mentioned on page 105 of Robyler question 1. The first site evalutech.srb.org/ was not very easy for me to manipulate through the site. It had a lot of reviews, about 10,000 reviews for software and print resources. It had a more professional development feel to the site. As much as I searched, I could not get an idea for what exactly was available for me that they offered. The next site was the California Resource Learning Center and appeared to be up to date that provided newsletters on latest reviews of software and internet resources. It had tutorials to help you learn how to search and explore their site. This site was very user friendly and will go back to this site for sources in my classroom. I have experienced the superkids site before and have used this in my classroom. I didn't realize it had reviews of latest software. It includes best sellers and price list. This is a large site that offers so much to the educator, student and parents. This site allows for parents, kids and teachers to make reviews on products. I found this site to be one that I will continually go to. I had been using the 'word of the day' for the past couple of years for my classroom and to make quick worksheets. I really do love the superkids site.  Educationworld has a plethora of information that appears very up to date. It has everything an educator would want or need. I have visited this site before and enjoyed the resources it offered. Like the previous site, I did not realize or take note of all the professional development and reviews it had to offer. With most teachers, time is not a luxury we all have, therefore I had not explored all of this site. But, since this has been brought to my attention, I will access this site now just not for the worksheets and games/links it has to offer. I will go here when needing reviews on different sites for my classroom, strengthening weaknesses that I have in my teaching, or for ideas, such as the upcoming 9/11 memorial. To me, this site seemed the most up to date and user friendly.

Digital Citizenship Project

Wow! The Prezi site is amazing and awesome! I loved working with the layout and design. It was very easy to handle. This tool is much more interesting and user friendly than powerpoint! I believe my students and peers will enjoy creating and sharing their prezi. I love how professional it makes all the information look and the ease in which you can add a video or image!


Digital Citizenship Prezi

Web 2.0 Assignment

My Web 2.0 assignment has been a fun activity to complete. Some sites I have never seen nor heard of and others I had some experience with. One site I had experienced before is the Animoto site. Our school presents an end of the year program and they used Animoto to present a video for parents at awards night.Here is the link to my Animoto video.
</iframe>Solar System Video for Animoto
I was apprehensive about the glogster page, but it ended up being my favorite so far. I enjoyed the creativity of the site and being able to move around and add or change things. Below is the link to my Solar System glogster page.
Solar System Glogster Page
Bubbl.us is a unique way to display information and order details and facts in the classroom. My concept map on the Solar System through this site made the information look clean and easy to follow. I look forward to continue using this site. Below is a link to my concept map.
Solar System Concept Map
My free choice are two games from the classtools.net site. Here are their links.
Solar System Quiz Game
This game presents questions to use as a review and you can choose from different type of games using the same questions. I liked using ammo to shoot at the correct answers and as you go up a level it gets faster and faster. Which encourages their recall.
Solar System Fruit Machine/Typewrite Game
This game is easy to create and very accessible for the teacher and students in the classroom. The possibilities are endless. I can use this as a review or to put students names in randomly to pick a student for questions or an event. Students could play in teams and one student has his/her back to the smartboard and the lever is pulled/clicked and the random name of a planet comes up and the person or team has so many seconds to describe the planet and the student pick the correct planet.
I would have liked to have tried the Google lit trips and will eventually do this for my students. I am anxious to share this knowledge with my peers. Everything I encountered during this entire project has been enlightening for me.