Week 4 videos that I watched

These movies are so different. Everyone has such good ideas. My son, age 7, has watched most of these with me and they really kept his attention.
Here are some things that I learned and enjoyed about the movies that I watched.

Katie Matthews: I loved the lesson that she taught about imagination and using it carefully. This shows kids how to turn a negative into a positive.

Malorie Walton: What a fun way to have an adventure. Using underwater photos was a great idea.

Camila Monteiro: I liked how she changed a familiar song in order to get kids spelling, and it works. My son started spelling names of other dogs he knows.

Eliane Bueno: Using different kinds of families in one story show kids that families from all over the world have lots in common.

Whitney Lethcoe: This video could start a unit on families and how we are like and different from each other.

Rachael Hamilton: Using the poetry from a familiar song was a neat idea. There are lots to choose from. I like all the different moms and babies.

Here Is My Movie!

Week Three

Here is the URL for the wiki that I created in week two:
http://sevenstories.pbworks.com/

Week Three of Technology

This week we learned about TPACK, or using technology, pedagogy and content knowledge to improve the classroom and learning. We also learned about copyright guidelines for education; for students as well as teachers.
I am posting my storyboard for the storytelling project. I had fun using a content standard from sixth grade science. This standard is how the Earth's revolution around the Sun creates the seasons for most of the Earth's population.

Week Two Was Hard

I had a great time this week working on these new web tools. I was excited to find some of my extended family were already using Googlereads. Diigo was an interesting tool for reading and highlighting documents online. I had a hard time with the fourth page of the wiki. It seemed that everything I tried would not work, but I finally had success with Googlegadgets. I can see all kinds of application with these tools. I had one funny experience after I created the Googlecalendar. I received an email saying that I had an outline due Wednesday. I looked through a couple of my binders before I realized that the message was from my fictitious calendar. I changed the settings!
No more scary emails.


Diigo Screenshot:





Videochat Screenshot:





Googlereader Screenshot:

Week 2 was hard

I have learned many new things this week. Some of my family members already use googlereads. It was fun to connect with them. Diigo was interesting. I'm glad to know there is an online reading tool where you can highlight and keep track of documents. The wiki pages weren't too bad, when they worked for me. It seemed that everything I tried for the fourth page had a problem, but I finally had success. The video chat was lots of fun. I can't wait to try it with my daughter in Japan.
Here is the URL for the wiki I created this week:
http://sevenstories.pbworks.com/


Diigo Screenshot:

Why I love education-

Education is life and life is an education. I will never understand people who are bored. There is so much that I want to learn and do that I will run out of time before I do them all. I hope that I can integrate technology with my passion for teaching so that my students will gain that love of learning.