Sunday, April 25, 2010
Thing #10 Maps
Monday, April 19, 2010
Thing #10 RSS
Just for fun, I subscribed to Movies, Mind-mapping and Beer sites. There are a whole host of other subscriptions I can see using in order to stay current on education related topics or other personal interest venues. One of the benefits of using Google reader is that I don't have to go after the information; it comes in to me and can be easily categorized and starred for favorite articles.
With more time on my hands, it would be really fun to customize the information coming in to me.
Thing #8 Videos
YouTube has many videos that I have seen over the years that I can use and have used. What an exciting media explosion that must be taken advantage of for learning in the classroom. Students are engaged with video when it is done right. A tremendous asset still at the beginning stages of it's potential.
I have never seen TeacherTube or SchoolTube before and always am interested in new resources. I didn't like the ads with TeacherTube but became aware that they go away if I became a member, so I guess the ads are one way to support themselves encouraging teachers to become members upon frequent use. One of the videos I watched tied the video in with a workbook of some sort but they didn't mention how to reference the workbook.
SchoolTube was great because it can be used by students to learn how to post their own work for viewing by others. I like how they broke things down by categories by had trouble doing a search like I did on TeacherTube. They had some good resource links and allowed users to search as a beginner, intermediate or advanced user.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thing #7 Wiki's
Speaking of spending an endless amount of time searching information; the mother of all wiki's, the Wikipedia Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page should be utilized in learning for information on almost any subject. I refer to this site often to explore new concepts and ideas. Since it is subject to anybody posting to it, you cannot rely on it as 100% accurate, but it has so much information on so much that you can't help but utilize it as "thee go to wiki site" for many subjects.
It looks like the website - Wikispaces http://blog.wikispaces.com/ is a good umbrella to discover wiki's that have been tagged for a variety of categories. It is free, but you have to register to get into it. It boasts over 4 million users and over 1.5 wiki's. I clicked on education and came up with "Web 2.0 - Cool Tools for Schools" and "Getting Tricky with Wiki's". There are so many blogs and good information available to make it a site that boasts the tag line: "Wiki's for Everyone".
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Thing #6 Presentations
http://show.zoho.com/document.do?p_id=748677000000004015&a_t=EDIT_DOCUMENT
I liked the ease of use, but had a hard time trying to figure out how to share the link in the format of a finished slide show.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thing #5 Documents
Here is a link to a Google Document that I created:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddbrfc6g_0gjcxsncv
Feel free to add your comment to my message.
I don't think Google Docs will replace Microsoft Office because Microsoft Office will still be used for word processing for applications that are not meant to be shared.