Week #4

Photostory is a lot of fun!!!!!! it's really neat to be able to make a slide show of pictures and add music to it. Kind of like a musical scrapbook. I could see how you could use this tool for your class room because alot of children learn by sight and music and this program allows you to add your own material and music. Teacher tube is helpful but, you have to be very specific or you will have to go thru alot of information to find what you are looking for.

Week 3

I-google is pretty fun, I liked being able to pick what sites you want to view on I-goolge like local news, weather, calendar and anything else your hearts desires. google earth was a lot of fun also, I went to see the house I grew up in England and how it looks today and also how it use to look. I feel that using google earth 5 would be helpful with students by getting them excited about using technology being able to view there community before and now.

week 2

I had already had my blog set up from last summer, Michelle was a lot of help and very patient with me. Posting on my blog seems to be hard for me for some reason, I seem to struggle with how to say what I want to say, I guess I'm making it a lot harder than it really is, just like trying to decide what to call my blog!!! Laura is pretty original don't you think. As Michelle would say "I am calm and relaxed" and try not to over think things. It can be fun and helpful if you let it.

week 1

Setting sail on my journey on the high sea's of technology. In the library we have already started using technology with our students by having them create their own wordle for their bluebonnet books instead of a poster.

Thing #8 RSS feed & Google Reader

I was relieved that they made a video for RSS feed, it sure made it easier for me to "see" what they were talking about with my own two eyes. Visual aides are very helpful since just about all of this stuff is really new to me!!!

Google reader is pretty cool, I liked being able to choose the news sites and any other sites "I"
want to view. This tool could be very helpful for Teachers and Coach's alike to be able to view info they have chosen and not have to go looking for it, such a current events and game scores.

Thing #7

I liked Igoogle, it was fun being able to choose just what you information you wanted and have instantly.(I have used it too see what is on at the local movie theater) Our students would enjoy being able to have instant access to sports info, movie theater info, any number of choices to put on their own Igoogle page.

I also liked google earth. I used this to look at my home, school, family,friends old address. This was fun seeing what it looks like from space. The space program has been in the news alot lately it would be a great tool for our students to look at places on this web site to see check out other countries that they are curious about what the terrain looks like.

Thing #6

I went to big huge labs and found a mashup on using the trading card maker for using with our forth grade students bluebonnet books. The kids are really into trading cards and being able to make their own would be lots of fun.