let's talk

Thanks Stacey for encouraging me to take this class. I have learned so much. I appreciate your kindness in allowing me to finish. It has been easier without Challyn here to get this done. I am using delicious faithfully, I want to use podcasts with students, I want to social network with my fellow media specialists. I am going to make time to puruse the internet to make myself a more knowledgable person to help myself and my fellow teachers become successful teachers with technology.

I found that in the forum in classroom2.0 happily many posted websites that I can really use. I didnt know that national geographic was so good! There are so many subscription servi es that I would like to use. There goes my paycheck.

Ningineducation main page had too many ads for Oxycontin, the forum was unsatisfing, but I did find the blogs in education, but I liked classroom2.o better.

There are so many good ideas on Blueskunk about how important an advisory commitee is needed in the media center. goals, budgets, improvements technology….. L0ve Dave Johnson 

Sucessful teaching articles remind me why I am a teacher, and how children learn. Cool website if you have camera connected to your computer Author visits using Skype

IT would be helpful to be able to see quickly most interested flakes on one page. The downfall it takes to long to browse and upload.

I tried to share a document with all the media specialists but some did not get the invite email because they do not have a gmail account.

I can see how to use shared documents if you gave access to students but they would each need a gmail account wouldnt they> Even in a wiki they would need user names and passwords. It would really be great if you had a pilot program classroom that only uses technology to do one subject or even all  cool Teachers could definitely colaborate with shared documents.

The Dinosaur Song I found two things on youtube that I could use or share. ‘The dinosaur song” was good for extinction and “songs from slavery” by students about messages in songs and Harriet Tubman.

Songs from Slavery

Teacher tube – many good documents, videos and images for topics. Here is one that a Kindergarten teacher created about using computers and the smartboard.

I did make a voice recording on Vocaroo. But I could not transfer it to Zamzar to continue this activity. I saved as a file. but Zamzar could not read it… I also had serious problems with “others” as I kept hearing their podcasts over and over while trying to read this page. Stacey I will need you help on this one.

I can see how podcasting would be beneficial to review learned material. It would be a great public relations for the infrastructure of the school as well as the parents.  I liked Willoweb the best. I did not want to download itunes. If I had an ipod I think it would be great to hear the podcasts as well as audiobooks and music.

I could see how a media specialist could look up a title to see the reviews, awards, of a particular book. Although the titles are dated, I would like to see more recent reviews of newly published books. I tried looking up “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell ‘ with no entry. I did find Frankie Stein

I was amazed to see I have 1000 and more items in my google reader. I did find a really cute snowman at starfall.com to share with my kindergarten teachers. And then I spendt 2 hours catching up on the reader copying many great sites into delicious. love tech and learning.