Thing 19 - Voicethread

A cool app, Definate potential. It is easily integrated into moodle, which MISD has available to teachers. If you sign up as a teacher, you get extra perks like unlimited voice threads and 2 Gig of storage.

This allows you to enter music as a comment as well. I can have a series of problem sets up for students to work individually or as a group.

Comment moderation allows you to sensor comments before they hit mainstream. That comment is only visible to the user and you. You as the teacher have the choice to keep it private or delete it.

Very neat, I wish I could integrate music easier though.

Thing 18 - YouTube!

I usually spend a good amount of time on youtube, so by the start of this assignment, I had already known what I wanted to share with everyone. I get a good amount of ideas for Physics demos from youtube. Searching Bill Beaty gets you a number of good stuff. I had to put the evolution of dance on there, its nestalgic to me. When I heard how to, I automatically think howcast. Watching items on the howcast site is better, their player will have comments in the timeline, and an embeded sidepar for what is needed and an outline of the steps.

Thing 17 - Calling all podcast

I realy like the podcasts I found, listening to 60 second scence made my jaw drop as I heard that MIT had learned how to have viruses make batteries, Very Genius!

DragonflyTV was cool too. I think I want my stduents to do what they did, make an art project out of science concepts. Without Pigment.

Having students develop a script and record a podcast should be easy to do. Working in groups of 2, they could make "taks tips", "student science", "Physics phreaks", or any other science related scripts about current content.

Thing 16 - Loving the library

Wow! It does comics too! or at least the graphic novels I read. I made an account, and might start the 50 book challenge this summer! A great site to get kids pumped about readingin general.

I like it when you search a site, many books have excerpts you can read.

I started a library of books that I have read, or read alot of. Check it out.

Thing 15 - Tag, your it!

I can see how I could incorperate this into an online website. You can use the Network feature to see what classmates are bookmarking. Many students are avidweb surfers and they can use this to be using prime webtimeto look at all the interesting academic related stuff you find. Having a continuing assignent where students find relevant websites and make a detailed description not only gets the student involved in current and interesting stuff, but gets them participating in the web community. Its current events in the modern world.

Your welcome to add me to your network!

Thing 7a - Reader Reading

Teacher Website hosting

Without the ability to find much detail on the site without signing up, I found a webite that will give you an online classroom.

ClassJump was found at a blog titled teachlearning.

This site allows each student an individual login to relate to classes. The clasroom has the ability to post homework, upload documents to share with class, a calendar, post articles and internet links, recieve documents from the internal student login, a message board and limitless photoalbums.

Students can upload work in a personal file or send to the teacher.

Mesquite has a webhosting service for teachers already, moodle.com. Moodle had the ability for more features, including a web friendly powerpoint conversions for ease of viewing. With training, teachers could create interactive applications for students to practice. Both options have potential for a paperless classroom.

Thing 14 - Wordle Wordle

Image by Wordle.net

This type of thing could make a great background for any electronic media. Very easy to use, even for the uncreative! I had to think, Ok... now what do I put in here. My eyes followed the page down and behold, I could drop my blogspot into it. So I did.

After thinking about it some, every six weeks have a printout for students similar to this as a vocabulary sheet. Its a new way initiating vocabulary to the students. A cool find. A very good visual to capture specific literary works.