Ok...so I'm a little disappointed! Turns out my Crockpot Slow Cooker site that I have been following is NOT a recipe site. I thought It would post new crock pot recipes every day, but it's not. It does post cool new Kitchen tools and gadgets, tips on remodeling your kitchen, and decorating tips for the kitchen. I've decided to keep it because it did show me a cool frappe maker that I may request for my birthday:)
I am going to try and find a recipe blog to subscribe to...I'll let ya know when I find a good one!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Thing #9
My Sandbox
I don't know why I waited so long to do this wiki???? I had so much fun creating my sandbox! I already have a wiki for my library so I wanted to go on ahead and do some more of the assignments that I wasn't familiar with yet. I thought I knew all there was about wikis, but I actually learned something new...widgets! I didn't know how to insert widgets like the one I used for the table of contents! It was so easy to do, I was pretty surprised. I am going to put a few widgets on my other wiki now! I previewed quite a few other people's sandboxes before I did mine. That helped me a lot. I did each section and then saved before I went to the next one. I wanted to make sure it looked right and the links worked before I moved on.
I don't know why I waited so long to do this wiki???? I had so much fun creating my sandbox! I already have a wiki for my library so I wanted to go on ahead and do some more of the assignments that I wasn't familiar with yet. I thought I knew all there was about wikis, but I actually learned something new...widgets! I didn't know how to insert widgets like the one I used for the table of contents! It was so easy to do, I was pretty surprised. I am going to put a few widgets on my other wiki now! I previewed quite a few other people's sandboxes before I did mine. That helped me a lot. I did each section and then saved before I went to the next one. I wanted to make sure it looked right and the links worked before I moved on.
Thing #16
Library Thing...pretty cool! I started an account and have started keeping track of the books I am reading this summer. This would be cool for students to do as well. They could keep track individually or as a class of what they are reading. Wouldn't it be cool for classes to keep track of Bluebonnet or Mockingbird reading this way?:) I've been wanting to start a book club for my fifth graders. I think I might use Library Thing as a way for us to find good book suggestions and to track our book that we read! We could discuss the book as a club and on library thing in a discussion group. The students could write reviews upon completion of each book and post them in Library Thing.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Thing #15
http://delicious.com/crystalholmes
Delicious is so tasty:) I love this bookmarking site. What a cool way to keep all your sites together in one place. I go from computer to computer. I use my desktop at home, my desktop at school, and my laptop. I bookmark different stuff on each computer. I never remember which computer I did what on! I am always emailing myself links so I can remember and open them on another computer. Delicious will put an end to that!
I could use this as a research tool with my students. Whenever we do research I pre-select sites for the kids to use. I usually put them on the library website. The students go there and navigate back and forth. I could use my delicious account instead. I could tag the sites and the kids could use those instead. They could also tag sites for me that they find about the topic they are studying. The bad part is that delicious is blocked at school. I can override it, but what a hassle!
Delicious is so tasty:) I love this bookmarking site. What a cool way to keep all your sites together in one place. I go from computer to computer. I use my desktop at home, my desktop at school, and my laptop. I bookmark different stuff on each computer. I never remember which computer I did what on! I am always emailing myself links so I can remember and open them on another computer. Delicious will put an end to that!
I could use this as a research tool with my students. Whenever we do research I pre-select sites for the kids to use. I usually put them on the library website. The students go there and navigate back and forth. I could use my delicious account instead. I could tag the sites and the kids could use those instead. They could also tag sites for me that they find about the topic they are studying. The bad part is that delicious is blocked at school. I can override it, but what a hassle!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thing #14
This was the coolest "thing" by far! I had so much fun playing with all of these applications. Tada list is very cool. I am a list-maker, so I LOVE this one! I have already made several lists and even checked some of the items off! While I was playing with this one, I thought it would be neat to use as a checklist or rubric for student work. Instead of giving them a paper rubric, I could email them a tada list. Each tada list could be custom tailored for the student. It would be a great way to differentiate without it being very obvious to other students!
Wordle is very addicting! I used it to make signs for my daughter's upcoming birthday party. I could play on that all day! What came to mind for classroom use is to use a wordle as a culminating activity. When I was in the classroom I would always close my lessons by asking my students to tell me 5 things they learned. We would do this orally as a class. It would be so cool to have each student create a wordle about the 5 things they learned instead. We could print and post them around the room for all to see.
No more time for this post...gotta go play around with more cool tools:)
Wordle is very addicting! I used it to make signs for my daughter's upcoming birthday party. I could play on that all day! What came to mind for classroom use is to use a wordle as a culminating activity. When I was in the classroom I would always close my lessons by asking my students to tell me 5 things they learned. We would do this orally as a class. It would be so cool to have each student create a wordle about the 5 things they learned instead. We could print and post them around the room for all to see.
No more time for this post...gotta go play around with more cool tools:)
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thing #13
Trading card maker
These online image generators are very fun. I think letting students use these to enhance their school projects will create excitement and motivation. These image generators would be cool to use with research. Classes that create blogs and wikis as products could generate images to match the content of the project.
Spell with Flickr
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