week 13

I first visited the Educaators Reference Desk. This is a great site for any teacher, giving a great data base of lesson plans and topic related resources. It is a great thing that there are sites that help save time to not have to be searching all over the web.

I visited americanhetoric.com and found it to be a useful search engine for finding anything from famos speaches to car insurance. This is a quick way to find related websites and cordinate your ideas.

Week 10

Well I visited both http://www.thistory.com/ and http://www.imaginationcubed.com/ The first is a company that makes videos for special occasions or tributes and could be used for a fun video of teaching avbout each years classes. The imagination site allows for you and others to draw on the screen and you can interact with others to be able to creat a project.

Week 9 websites

I am blogging tonight about a couple of the teacher sites for the class. I went onto Voki.com, toondoon.com and sketch.odpod.com. These were all very fun interactive sites and I really enjoyed them. I found the odsketch site to be very creative and fun. I really want to try it out with my Wiimote smart board. I think that it can be a creative way to draw digitally. The other sites were good but take a little more practice to use.

Week 5

Well I know I am behind in these but here is my week 5 post. So as I went over the articles and the video I really thought a lot about how I need to prepare myself to be digitally literate to help teach the 21st century learners. There is a lot that we need to still work on to "manage" how we use technology, but it is very important to do. I think that one of the things that we as teachers need to do is meet the students on their level of technology, but also teach them how to use their resources wisely as well as their time. We can not just let them loose or they will be strangled in all of the technical ropes out there. We still have a lot to learn!

IDEAL

This web sight "ideal.azed.gov" is an excellent resourse as well as information both for teachers to use in and out of hte classroom. I really like how it has a wide variety of information and different workshops that can be uses by the teacher. It also has a wonderful way to network with otehr teachers and share ideas. The site also has links to other website that can be of help. I feel that there will be a great tool as I prepare myself for the classroom!

I checked out the BrainPop Web sight and found it very useful. I really enjoy the information that they have available and the way in which it is presented. It is sights like these that can help the learning proses in the classroom. I love informative videos and so do most students. I watched the video on Abraham Lincoln and really enjoyed it.