My top two favorite sites were definitely YouTube and TeacherTube. I'm a big advocate of YouTube because you can find a video of almost anything in the world on one single website. It's absolutely awesome! TeacherTube was useful because it has a plethora of videos that are geared especially for classroom use. I had never heard of Blinkx before 11 tools, but I really enjoyed the fact that it pulls videos from over 150 video sites and compiles them into one search engine. It made my life 1000 times easier! :)
I didn't post videos that were very relevant to my content because I teach multiple contents, but I think they pertain to education and technology, or what you make of it!
From my understandings of the Copyright Issue, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I gathered that as long as the information/material is used for educational purposes and copyrighted material is not being published to the general public, then there shouldn't be any issues!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Tool #2: Building Community in the Online Envrionment
For some reason, I'm not the biggest fan of exposing my thoughts for the world to see. I don't like the idea that billions of people could be potentially reading my blog... I'm sure they're all running to their computers as I type. ( Catch my sarcasm?! It's kind of hard to be cynical when blogging..So sue me.)
Although I'm not the biggest fan of exposing my own ideas, I think it's a GREAT opportunity for our students. Blogging is notorious for giving the less vocal people a voice. It's your chance to speak your mind and I think that our students need and would benefit from that!!!!
In high school, a few of my friends were very active bloggers and I loved following them! It was fun to read their thoughts and it was always fun responding to their posts.
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I haven't explored Edmodo too much, but it sounds awesome!!! From my understandings, it's similar to facebook and I think the kids would definitely find it extremely relatable!! I could see this resource being applied in our any of the classrooms that I co-teach in.
Although I'm not the biggest fan of exposing my own ideas, I think it's a GREAT opportunity for our students. Blogging is notorious for giving the less vocal people a voice. It's your chance to speak your mind and I think that our students need and would benefit from that!!!!
In high school, a few of my friends were very active bloggers and I loved following them! It was fun to read their thoughts and it was always fun responding to their posts.
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I haven't explored Edmodo too much, but it sounds awesome!!! From my understandings, it's similar to facebook and I think the kids would definitely find it extremely relatable!! I could see this resource being applied in our any of the classrooms that I co-teach in.
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