Tool 4

Google Apps has lots to offer. I especially like the Goggle Form on line question/survey tool. What a powerful tool to use with students!!! It could be used to gather information and the chart in out in a bar graph. The tool puts the information into a circle graph. Students would love to answer questions using this tool. I made a Travel Survey to practice. It seemed very easy. I'm not sure how to post it to this blog. I will try.

I also made a sample Google Doc. That was easy too. I like the fact that it can be sent to multiple people and each edit made will be sent to everyone. What a time saver. This could be used when teams are trying to plan or get information to everyone. Much faster than opening an attachment. Everyone can add info. or make changes until a final copy is composed. It saves your email from getting too clogged up.

I am not brave enough to give up my paper/pencil calendar, but like the idea of it. Maybe one day I will get brave enough to do so.

New York City

Tool 3

I spent lots of time viewing Teacher Tube, School Tube, Kids Tube. I found two videos that I might use at the beginning of school year. They are posted below. Cool! Place Value shows standard form of numbers, expanded form, and word form. It repeats with different numbers so you can get the idea of how to expand a number. The Scientific Method video show all the steps in conducting an experiment.

I then went to flickr to find a picture. I looked up New York city since I just returned from there and found a great picture of the skyline. I will post it for you to see too.

I learned that educators can use pictures for educational purposes without getting permission. This is good to know. We tend to copy pictures all the time.

SchoolTube - The Scientific Method Song **WITH LYRICS**

SchoolTube - The Scientific Method Song **WITH LYRICS**

COOL! Place Value

Tool 2

I like the idea of responding to people I know. When I took the 23 things I did not know any of the people. It seems easier to respond to the people I know. I learned from reading what other wrote. I decided I needed to go back at look at iauthor and ibook in classroom tools 2.0.

MJ gave the technology committee a short class on using delicious. I think I'm going to work on using delicious since I am more familiar with it. It is a great way to save your bookmarks and have them on any computer you might use. Diigo amazed me with what it could do, but I think I'll take baby steps for now.

Tool 1

After many hours I was able to find my blog from 23 things. Then I had to remember my password. Once I remembered my password I had to make some changes. I'm in and it is all working now!!!! Yea.

I made a Voki. This was new because voice could be added. I had to get some help from Guusje to save my Voki of my dog, Mia, because changes have been made since I last worked on my blog.