Week 6

I had fun exploring the sites, however my favorite was googlelittrips. That is just so cool! I could see using this in the library on a book club book. Also I feel that my social studies teachers will love this I can't wait to share! I would like to explore scrible maps more to get a little more comfortable with it however I can see using this as another tool when studying maps and atlas as research tools. I have bookmarked all of them and plan on sharing math manipulative with the math teachers.  Sift will be fun to have the kids play with and I know the language teachers will love it.
The site that I have used in the library http://bighugelabs.com/deck.php  for making trading cards.  The kids loved making cards about themselves. This year I hope to have them make cards on a favorite book.  I think this would be a great way to book talk a book. It also has easy acess to flicker to find pictures.  You can see the card I made in an earlier blog from another class I took on 2.0 tools.

Week 5

Wikis are a cool tool for full collaboration. They would be great for a librarian/teacher collaboration on a student project that required research skills to accomplish their goal.  The librarian and teacher could set a timeline of lessons that need to be taught and also a schedule for use of materials and technology. What would make a wiki appropriate for this is easy revisions, as we all know when you are teaching you are consinstly learning and discovering things that you thought would work or happen but don't always do.  I would much rather meet at my house or complete school commitee tasks via a wiki verses in person meetings.  I feel this way it would make everyone accountable to at least participate with a published comment.

A blog is two way as far as people making comments however unlike a wiki you don't want them messing with your stuff.

I plan on getting with a social studies teacher who is excited about collaborating with me ( YEHAA!) and see if we can do it with the use of a wiki to help us make a plan, stay on task as well as keeping us accountable.

Week 4

Made my video with Animoto and it was way easier than I expected.  Found video on YouTube and TeacherTube and was able to embed them into my blog with no problems! YAHOO! I thought YouTube was more user friendly that TeacherTube. I was just able to get better searches. I know the kids will love Animoto and probably already use it.  Great avenue for booktalks!

TeacherTube Videos - Dewey Decimal Rap

TeacherTube Videos - Dewey Decimal Rap

What is Web 2.0

Myspace Tutorial: What is Web 2.0?

Week 3

I did set up an igoogle page and played with the gadgets and found a few that I liked.  I found a SLJ gadget that keeps you updated on articles and thought that was cool especially since it is FREE.  I also found one that keeps track of the bestselling childrens books.  There was also a countdown gadget that was cool which counts the days down till an event such as the: end of school, till christmas, till school starts, and etc.

Google Earth was amazing.  I can certainly turn the kids on to this when I am talking about the atlas.  I think this will help the kids alot especially in a research game that we play. I just found myself spending too much time with it right now however I will go back and try become proficient in certain areas of it.

This was my first time to really see any of the atomic learning and I was very impresssed with the tutorials for Google Earth.  I found them to be really helpful.

I did not really know what Google Reader was, but now I know it is a manager for your blogs. If I get into other blogs besides our library blogs, it would be very handy to access them all in one place, and to be able to organize them by catagories. Also I see that you can search for blogs of interest.  I could see this as another research tool for kids if you set up a list on a subject for them to use.