I think this is a very convenient, effective and easy tool to use. I have been using google docs now for a while in planning my upcoming family vacation. All my family members are at the moment in different cities and are using google docs to collaborate the planning of our entire trip, rather than emailing each other.
I can see teachers using this to plan their field trips. This could help them in planning and coordinating with the parents that accompany them as chaperones, the itineary, the meals, their sleeping arrangements, etc, and collaborate their entire trip with the help of google docs. We are also talking about using google forms with room parents. All parents can enter their email addresses and contact information this way in one form that can be then shared with one another.
I usually watch You Tube or Teacher Tube before going to bed, late at nights, and usually lose track of time. I do have some teachers that use teacher tube to show videos in classrooms. We also have some teachers using United streaming to show videos.
As an IT person there are vast resources of tutorials, videos that are out there to make teaching much more interesting and visual based. One of my favorites being – the one i have embedded in my blog.
Have been watching and listening to a lot of podcasts for a year now. Still not totally clear on the “how to’s” of it. One way I can see this being used at school is by my speech teacher. Have enjoyed the ‘Learn Out Loud sessions’ and the ‘Podcasting in Education’. I feel i have just dipped my feet, now plan to get in deeper in my spare time to embrace this technology.
So far, the only way i am familiar and comfortable is simply listening to podcasts as an end user. However to be able to teach it to my staff and students or even to subscribe to some podcasts is a whole different project , which i may have to take on, at a later time- something that will require me to devote more time to understand it fully.
Great concept!!! Have not had much time lately to read books, although would love to. Now with Google reader and rss subscriptions, whatever little reading i was doing is now done online. Although every now and then during my summer break, i am looking for a good book to read. This would be a good site to find a book that would be worth reading.
To be frank not sure if i would be using much of this tool. I would definitely pass this along to my Media specialist.
I was familiar with Ikeepbookmarks, had no idea there were so many other great resources for bookmarking.
I did sign up for Delicious and plan to use it more in the future. I did play with Tags, Subscriptions, etc. I can see myself using delicious and sharing this with my staff also. I am having to switch my thinking from folders to tags. Although tags makes a lot of sense where you can have multiple tags, whereas it is not possible to put in multiple folders. Or if one needs to put in multiple folders one has to repeat the function whereas multiple tagging does not require duplicate steps like adding favorites to different folders require. I chose to try importing my existing bookmarks from my various computers -school and home for a later time once i have organized them. I can see how this can help us be more efficient and stay organized with our bookmarks anytime, anywhere.
As an IT person, i have often been in situations where a computer crashed and all the data is lost. However what i see the teachers being most disappointed about is the fact that they lost their favorites/bookmarks, when their computer crashed, so this would be an ideal way for them to save their bookmarks.
I had no idea there was something like that. It is good to know we are not too late, even though it has been running for the last 2 years. Thank goodness for the archive articles that one can go back and read the ones from 2006 and 2007 also.
I chose ‘Leading the change’ and like the one about ” Teaching Web 2.0 -Everything you need is in one place” by Wendy Drexter . Student samples and teacher resources are also posted here. Tools are reviewed fro strength, weaknesses and also potential threats and opportunities.
Altogether a good place to revisit in my spare time.
There are days i forget to check my rss feeds, but good thing is they are not filling up my mailbox. I like the idea of skimming and checking them off as -having read. I do see continuing to use Google reader to organize my reading and staying informed beyond this online course.
Have enjoyed following up blogs on Getting Rich Slowly by JD
November issue had one called Best of Getting Rich- Practice-passion and patience and he talks about different blogs he has for different topics. How he became successful blogging and the tips he gives for blogging and recommended books for blogging.
I had to jump to Thing 14, as i could not get to Onlne Conference- took forever to load. Maybe the site was down. I decided to come back to it later
I have used Jigzone a lot with my students, but never with customizing their own pictures. I know they would love doing that. I also liked dumpr, where i played with jig saw puzzles too. Would love to go back and try out some other effects and tools in spare time.
This fun jigsaw was created with dumpr.net
