THING 17- videosharing

I find myself constantly looking up videos on YouTube. I have created playlist for listing to music and videos while at home. I have also used YouTube for comedy and humor as well. I have never heard of TeacherTube until this class. I got tired of looking at the advertisement on TeacherTube. It started to become a little aggravating. Maybe I was looking alot of bad videos but the volume on my of hte videos I saw were very low. I had a hard time hearing many of them. Users have to be aware of the sounds. My students are finishing up plant and animal life cycles. One of the videos I chose to upload shows a chicken hatching from an egg.

Another video I found was this big pig video

Thing 14 Delicious

Delicious is an awesome way to organize sites. I find myself opening up a number of windows on my browser for fear of losing them. I like that Delicious allows you to organize, tag and share sites that you have found with other teachers. There have been a number of time where teacher and myself have shared sties but we would give key words as to how we located the site. Delicious would allow them to have automatic access to sites that I have found I have found and can share with them.
Check out some of my bookmarks in delicious. My address is http://www.delicious.com/clmcduffie
I decided to bookmark some sites for butterflies. I also decided to bookmark some math sites and science sites that are interactive for my children. I found this really cool site called www.spellingcity.com. This would be great for many of my students to practice while in class or at the computer lab.

Webquest in the working.

The biggest thing about my webquest was trying to find how to put my thoughts in it. I thought about videos, pictures, and many different activities. As I search the web, I found a number of ideas and activities. I did want to overcrowd my webquest with too many things. For my first webquest, I decided to keep it somewhat simple. I originally was going to do my webquest using google but someone share with me www.questgarden.com. This site pretty much laid out everything that I needed to do for the webquest. At the moment, I am pretty much finished with my webquest with the exception of a few things that I have to add in as well as my teacher notes. I have shown some of my co-workers what I have done and they seem to be really interested in learning how to do their selves. Looking forward to completing it and introducing it to my students.

ITEC7445 What I've learned and enjoyed from ITEC7445

I have really enjoyed this semester. I have learned about a number of different things when it comes to technology. The one thing that I enjoyed most was learning about how to create a webpage. I enjoyed learning to create the webpages using the actual html codes and then the easier preset pages through google and other web design servers. I also enjoyed making the Webquest and I am looking forward to using it with my children . I still have to upload a few more things to it but I found that my children were able to navigate through the page for the most part. Other things that interested my were Voicethread, Slideshare, Jing,and wiki. I was not too fond of Twitter but i can see where benefits of using it are available. I have enjoyed learning the many things we have talked about in class and it is has sparked some interested with my co workers as well. Many of them have been asking me questions about what I have been learning. While I am by no means an expert on this Instructional Technology stuff it is interesting being able to share what I do know. Thanks for everything.

ITEC 7430- Thing 12 Exploring online tools

For my first grade students, I like www.blabberize.com. I think that this would be a great way for the students to express themselves. My class was outside playing one day and I decided to take pictures of them. We later were focusing narrative writings so I decided to show my students the picture and I asked them to write a quick narrative describing what they were doing. Blabberize would give them the opportunity to add their voice to their one individual image and talk about what they are doing. I think that this would engage the students very much and I think that they would get a kick out of hearing and seeing themselves speak on the picture.

ITEC 7430- Internet Safety

For me, when it comes to use the internet to teach, internet safety is a big concern.
Many schools and most inappropriate sites blocked however thing still slip by. Teachers have to teach their students proper and safe internet etiquette. You would think that that would be good enough however while using the internet especially in school, teachers need to continuously monitor their students will they are using the internet. Like the example in the book about typing “legs” instead of “legos” even accidentally students can pull up things they should not be looking at. So constant monitoring is important. I think that it is all important that parents are made aware of just how hazardous internet usage can be. Take for example Facebook and Myspace, if settings are not set in the privacy section correctly then everyone can view all of the users information.


Some sites that offer suggests and ways to hep teach and secure your students and yourself are listed below but are not limited to only these...
www.safeinyourspace.org
www.cyberbully.org
www.ncpc.org
www.isafe.org
www.netsmartz.org
www.wiredsafety.org
www.ikeepsafe.org

ITEC 7430- Internet Safety

For me, when it comes to use the internet to teach, internet safety is a big concern.
Many schools and most inappropriate sites blocked however thing still slip by. Teachers have to teach their students proper and safe internet etiquette. You would think that that would be good enough however while using the internet especially in school, teachers need to continuously monitor their students will they are using the internet. Like the example in the book about typing “legs” instead of “legos” even accidentally students can pull up things they should not be looking at. So constant monitoring is important. I think that it is all important that parents are made aware of just how hazardous internet usage can be. Take for example Facebook and Myspace, if settings are not set in the privacy section correctly then everyone can view all of the users information.


Some sites that offer suggests and ways to hep teach and secure your students and yourself are listed below but are not limited to only these...
www.safeinyourspace.org
www.cyberbully.org
www.ncpc.org
www.isafe.org
www.netsmartz.org
www.wiredsafety.org
www.ikeepsafe.org