Web 2.0 Class Reflection

When I first walked into this class I thought I knew so much about technology.  Boy, was I wrong! Within the first class I wanted to run out screaming.  I had no idea what Judy was even talking about.  After that first class I was nervous for the next, but after going to that next class, I realized I could learn how to use this “new” technology and be good at it.  This class has opened my eyes to using technology within my classroom more than I ever thought it could.  I have learned so many new and exciting thing to incorporate with my curriculum in third grade.  Each week through these eight weeks my students have got to experience everything that I have learned and they have loved it!  I know that I will continue to use many of these resources within my classroom each year.  

Dr. Jean's Site

So a colleague at school showed me this site!!  There are a lot of great songs on here that go along with phonics and stories that include movement for your classroom.  What a great site!  I just thought I would share with all of you !!!

This is also the link to Dr. Jean's Blog for so more info.

Literacy Project

So for my literacy project, I decided to attempt a voice thread.  Overall, I feel it came out great.  My students are just starting to look a poetry so we did an acrostic poem with our names to begin.  The students took off with this poem, and it came out fantastic.  They loved recording their poems, and even getting time to comment on each others.  I could definitely see myself using this tool again!1  My students really enjoyed it.  The only challenge I came across was getting the microphone to work at school, as you can see though I came over that hump and we got the microphone working, from there it was a piece of cake!!  I hope you enjoy our poetry.

Voice Thread

Just a trial of Voice Thread

Blogging in the Classroom

When searching on the web, I came across this video about blogging in the elementary school classroom.  When watching it I realized those doubts I had about using blogging with in my 3rd grade classroom, started to subside a little.  This teacher puts a lot in to perspective and makes me realize that it is possible.  I thought some of my fellow teachers might like watching it as well.

Trying it out

WEEBLY....it's actually really cool!!!  I wanted to try this for next year as a basic website for my class for next year, thus the reason for the name change.  My thought for this site is to keep it very basic for now to get used to it.  I would like to put information for my parents on this site so that they could just pop on our website and see what is going on in out class.  This is just a start but I could definitely see myself using this for next year!!!

Weebly???

So I was looking at some of the weebly's that Judy put on our course work for class six.  I came across Christina's Weebly.  I actually think I could see this being a great way to use the weebly.  She has been posting all her papers for certain course on the weebly.  A great place to put all your important work from undergrad and or grad school!!!