I think I could spend a lot of time reading other people's blogs. I found Adventures in Educational Blogging interesting. It began discussing on how the author had moved the blog site. I thought, "Oh geez, another dead end link". But I was pleasantly surprised to find that it still had some "meat". The beginning of the blog, told of two sites (that was actually tried) that enable a user to move a blog to another domain. The first one lost the videos while the second was capable of keeping the content of the blog.
As I continued to read, I came across a video that had been removed from this blog post. I searched for it on youtube. I Need My Teacher to Learn is a video that is showing how students are changing from traditional learning students to more along the lines of Next Generation students. The rest of blog goes on discuss useful apps (free and paid) and programs. The author even had an ipod that she had forgotten to close the waterproof case on while swimming and told how she repaired it.
An idea that seemed useful was the scheduling of three way conferences using Wetpaint wiki. I have not used this before but I am interested to see if it would work. This also brings to mind about parent/teacher conferences...can these be done via Skype? Anyone know?
Something that I didn't understand and had to do a websearch was what a IWB. It is an abbreviation for a Interactive Whiteboard. Amazing, after havng the Polyvision board in my room and limited experience with a SMART board, I have never heard of this short version. Has anyone else?
The blog showed the motivation picture below.
"The website is Motivator from Big Huge Labs. It allows you to use a photo from your computer, Flickr, Photobucket or a URL, and turn it into a motivational poster."
Another interesting activity is the book talk videos. Students were challenged into making a movie trailer of their favorite book. They had to find pictures and learned about creative commons licensing. I would like to see how this could be used for a thematic unit or such to entice the students to want to read the upcoming books.
Anybody a coffee drinker? Read this link that was on this blog page, hilarious! Coffeeless
My final thoughts on this blog entry...this site has so much informatin that I did not talk about, I would encourage you to take time to read and click!
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