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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

School Dude

I registered for School Dude and tried to upload a video. It may have posted but is waiting for approval from my moderator. (Pam Steers). I read about becoming a moderator in order to streamline my own use of school tube. Looks like a pretty straightforward and user friendly site.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Using Delicious

found some cool sites--one in particular was free ebooks of classic literature. Also, I transferred my bookmarks to Delicious so that I can access them from anywhere. Cool site if I'm away from my own computer. The challenge is to keep track of the yahoo access information in order to log in to Delicious from other computers. Perhaps I would use it for lesson planning. I have several other resources, too.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Google Docs Practice

Here are the links to various Google Docs

Here's a document I made last year for my 50th birthday bash
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AceG75aAdOlmZGQ1bWJtaHpfMGc5dG5zZ2Zj&hl=en's
Here's a presentation:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AceG75aAdOlmZGQ1bWJtaHpfMGc5dG5zZ2Zj&hl=en
Here's a spreaadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AseG75aAdOlmdEJGc245MUtZTEVPamhfT0VZcDlmT1E&hl=en

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Using a wiki in my classroom

We worked for several weeks in Honors English to produce scholarly research papers. As part of our response and reflection on the process, students will work in small groups to add their feedback on the research paper assignment and their advice for future students. I have set up the wiki page and will ask those who have their own laptops to bring them on Jan. 6-7, 2010, with the intention that each group have at least one computer to work from to build our wiki page. You can see the wiki page, all set to go if you visit the site today (12/30/09), but if you come back in a week or two, you should find some fabulous student-generated food-for-thought!

Here's the link to the 2009-Fall-Research-Paper wiki page:
http://2009-fall-research-paper.wikispaces.com/

Monday, December 7, 2009

Voice Thread Exercise

Today I'm looking at the voice streaming idea.
Here is the voice thread I made:


http://voicethread.com/#e789132

This seems like a rather cumbersome thing to use with the whole class, but perhaps more applicable to small group responses. In English, it seems much more reasonable to talk as a group rather than respond alone after listening to other voices. Seems like it could be fun to use with family--to send a slide show and edit with comments.