Week 9 thing 23

Wow, this has been an incredible journey for me.  I am happy that you reopened the workshop for the summer months- I could never have spent as much time exploring everything. I knew that I was behind the times and I feel a little more savy about the tech talk among the younger crowd.  I look forward to future posts on Junkie blog.  THANK YOU!

Week 9 Thing 22

My first attempt at a Glog.  I had trouble with Teacher Tube so I used a YouTube Video link which won't fly at school.  I'll have to work on the glitches.  Do you have any suggestions?  TeacherTube kept getting hung up.

Week 8 thing 21

Pleases and Sneezes, Thank you-s and Excuse you! by danajbelle, klenthall on Storybird

A digital storybook that my twin sister and I worked on to use at our schools.

Week 8 Thing 20

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

The first three pictures of Jackie Robinson park were taken from the following:
Ball park picture
http://buddroadtrips.blogspot.com/2009/04/daytona-beach-florida-jackie-robinson.html
ballpark 2
http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states/florida/daytona-beach-photo-jackie-robinson-ballpark-pid-6467723/
ballpark 3
http://mysite.verizon.net/charliesballparks/stadiums/daytona.htm

Week 8 Thing 19

I saw a cute activity for a center where photos were printed out with bubbles either blank or just started and the students had to finish the story line, add character dialogues, etc. It would be cute to capture students in class and then bubblesnap their feelings. This would be particularly helpful for some of the challenging repeat offenders on behavior. You would actually ask them to reflect on why they acted a certain way ... or it might create more problems for the "fun" of the activity. Won't know until I try unless you have some experience Cassie???

Extra, Extra Blog all about it

I had fun with this one!

Week 7 Thing 18

I like using Wordle. I will be trying Taxedo next. I was using Wordle to crete a Word search type of activity. As an example I typed in long vowel a words and short vowel a words. I then had students circle only the long vowel a words that they found. I loved the idea of a classroom polling that can be done right then and there.

Week 6 thing 13

week4 thing 9 blabberize

It took me a little bit to figure out which buttons to use to record. I love love love this bit of technology. I love the children singing to the chick. I listened to it so I could use the song!

week 4 thing 8 voki

There are many interesting ideas for using voki in education. I can see older students using this more than my first grade newbies- they still hunt and peck on the computer or click away millions of times ...

Week 3 Thing 7

This is an old picture of my identical twin sister and me. She was down visiting for my mom's 80th birthday for the Fourth of July weekend! Hence the patriotic facepaint!

This was an extremely easy program to use and add effects. I have a ton of digital photos waiting for me to start my scrapbooking of these years. I am just finishing the old negative film ones. Now I can add effects before I print them for my scrapbooks. I can see how this will slow my process down if I get too caught up in all the effects! What fun!

Week 3 Thing 6

By dcjacobs | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

Wow, this was fun but hard to do! I loved the idea of creating a panel story then leaving a panel with a scene but blank speech bubble to allow students to work on the story.

Week 3 Thing 5

| View Sample Photo Books | Create your own Photo Book

I'm a traditional scrapbooker with paper and photos who has just hit the digital years.  I've been thinking about switching over and this might just push me in that direction.

Success-week 2 Thing 3 continued

  Success embedding!  Try, try again and again and again.  I don't know why it wouldn't go before.  I did the same thing each time but tried a new post instead of editing an old one.  Phew!

Week 2 Reflection

Well, I have spent a lot of time today on the computer, including learning how to access the information posted for each week.  Somehow, I missed the instructional part when I started this blog and jumped right in ... which explains my difficulties in editing posts and deleting. I am so absorbed with all this technology that my husband calls and I don't want to talk as I try to solve my problems.  He can hear the keyboard sounds and the lack of focus in my responses.  I have spent the whole day here on the computer, as I have contractors remodeling my kitchen and we were kind of stuck in the computer room.  But I can see myself in here addictively.  There is so much to explore and try.  I looked at some links under your tech tools and made a badge for my class and a magazine cover for my 25th wedding anniversary.  What fun!  I really appreciate all the work that went in to putting this online course together from the video support, the extra credit and the assignments. THANK YOU!

Week 2 Thing 3- avatars

I'm trying to embed my avatar but  no luck, will keep trying. 

Voki avatars

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=4055155&height=267&width=200

One I created for my coteacher as well
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=4044680&height=267&width=200  

and I have had success editing a post!

Working on kidblog

http://kidblog.org/MrsJacobsensMsPaynesFirstGraders/

I was trying to set up some things for our kid blog.  This just might be the spot where the students and teachers can try out technology, share their experiences and post their successes and thoughts.  I'm not sure yet for what I will use this blog.  I started to think that it would be a great spot to post assignments like the collaborative writing website.  I think that students will be excited about writing to their teacher and waiting for personal comments back.  I write notes to students on their homework so they know that I am checking it thoroughly.  This will provide one more avenue for reaching out to students.  But I can see that it could be time consuming.  I already spend way too much time on school.  Unfortunately, since I teach first graders and I'm unsure of their computer skills and computer resources- I don't see what I can replace this with ....

Week 1

I have just started a blog in response to an online course I am taking on technology.  I am an older teacher who feels she may become extinct if she doesn't get a handle on all the technology resources around me.  The sad thing is I'm probably one of the more tech savy people at school.  Everyone comes to me with computer questions/problems.  But I still feel that I am way behind.  Hence the reason I am taking this course.  Blogging is totally new to me. I can't get my head around the idea of an online diary.  I understand a blog spot for the classroom but ... for myself ...   so I hope I have done the right things for this course by creating this blog for registration.