I played with cool iris yesterday-It will be a huge help in my classroom but I need to check to see if you can set "safe search" before I allow my students to use it. It makes the images so much easier to view.I learned about cool iris on the 10 classroom distruptions blog which I enjoyed reading. Last night I watch a show that had a college classroom using phones to take notes and find reaserch-it tied right into this blog.
I did not try Skype since I do not have a webcam but I know a lot of people who do and they all love it. This could be a great way to contact a museum that has a major show and have a docent talk to my class about it. Using a computer projector and external speakers, the images could be veiwable to the whole class. I could contact an artist who would be willing to give a video dmonstration to my class and the students could work along with the master teacher. I see this as a great tool for all subject areas. It would also be fun to interact with students in a different country.
My sister's family all use this as a way to stay in touch with her son in California.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thing 2
I have had so much fun today-but computer issues continue to interupt my play. Lots of freezing and work lost.
Wordle is so much fun and fast, wordshift is interesting but I am not so sure I would use it. I think a core teacher would love to use this.
Glogster again was fun but it took me awhile to figure out how everything worked.
My favorite was the Voki-will def. use the Voki in my class-will also use glogster and wordle-I used wordle in a presentation this summer and everybody enjoyed using it-I like the tip about printing the screen-hadn't thought of that.
Am going to see if I remember how to add to my blog.
Does anyone know how to save this blog but awitch the whole thing over to gmail? Yahoo and my laptop do not get along and I must use yahoo to get into my blog.
Wordle is so much fun and fast, wordshift is interesting but I am not so sure I would use it. I think a core teacher would love to use this.
Glogster again was fun but it took me awhile to figure out how everything worked.
My favorite was the Voki-will def. use the Voki in my class-will also use glogster and wordle-I used wordle in a presentation this summer and everybody enjoyed using it-I like the tip about printing the screen-hadn't thought of that.
Am going to see if I remember how to add to my blog.
Does anyone know how to save this blog but awitch the whole thing over to gmail? Yahoo and my laptop do not get along and I must use yahoo to get into my blog.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Thing 1
I see this video as the wave of the future and I need to understand how all of this works to keep up with my students. I have used the power of photostory and animoto both in my classroom and at presentations. And have started but not completed a voice thread presentation.
This video is very simple-straight forward-and easy to understand. It is going to make me go back to last summer's work and reveiw the news feed-I had a lot of trouble with that part plus the fact that I did all this work in Yahoo and my lap top won't work with Yahoo-Geek can't tell me why so I switched to gmail-now this won't open in gmail-could this be like the PC Mac thing?
Last week at CEDFA, we created a short video like this with video, audio, voice over, and text-it was a lot of fun and can toghether with ease. I also observed my students this year creating computer videos in many of their classes.
Could a librarian be the teacher-they already are teachers in mu opinion and I have been fortunate to know and admire several that I have worked with
This video is very simple-straight forward-and easy to understand. It is going to make me go back to last summer's work and reveiw the news feed-I had a lot of trouble with that part plus the fact that I did all this work in Yahoo and my lap top won't work with Yahoo-Geek can't tell me why so I switched to gmail-now this won't open in gmail-could this be like the PC Mac thing?
Last week at CEDFA, we created a short video like this with video, audio, voice over, and text-it was a lot of fun and can toghether with ease. I also observed my students this year creating computer videos in many of their classes.
Could a librarian be the teacher-they already are teachers in mu opinion and I have been fortunate to know and admire several that I have worked with
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thing 23
This has been the very best summer class I have taken since 1968! I have learned so much, understand so much more than I did before, and have all kind of new ideas and projects to use with my students. I just know this will be a great school year!
As a visual arts teacher I now can create wonderful projects like my new picture of myself-how to do this can be found on our library resource page under curriculum (http://librestechsbisdcurr.pbworks.com/)
I can't wait to see what my students can do after going to this site.
Thank you our computer masters for giving me new respect for all those blogger out there.
Thing 22
I am already a member of a NING group, http://arted20.ning.com/ ,is a site I joined last year and I have really enjoyed the interacting much like what I saw on Educator Ning and Ning for Teachers.
I have not tried to put assignment up for students to view, do, then have me grade. I read several accounts on the Educator Ning where teachers were doing this. I thought this was an interesting way to give assignments but I wondered what a teacher would do with students who do not have a computer nor have access to one. We do interactive history notebooks at mt school and mt art students come in before and after school to use my student computer to complete these assignments. What would happen to them I wonder if I put my art assignments on a NING?I think it would go the way of the homework assignments that I post of my teacher wesite-they don't look at it.
It is a new world out there.
I have not tried to put assignment up for students to view, do, then have me grade. I read several accounts on the Educator Ning where teachers were doing this. I thought this was an interesting way to give assignments but I wondered what a teacher would do with students who do not have a computer nor have access to one. We do interactive history notebooks at mt school and mt art students come in before and after school to use my student computer to complete these assignments. What would happen to them I wonder if I put my art assignments on a NING?I think it would go the way of the homework assignments that I post of my teacher wesite-they don't look at it.
It is a new world out there.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Thing 21
See below-I was able to finish this with help from Vaughn! Word to the wise-read your comments!!!!
I did not have the necessary downloads on my computer nor could I get photostory 3 to download.(my compter got almost throught then said it had found an error) I did a search on my computer-found what my compter said was photostory-saved it to my desktop using the directions as stated on Library2Play after I saw no where to upload to a blog. I looked through everything on the site I was using-still no upload to blog. Could send in email-upload to an mp3 player but no blog. I still have what I created from my own pictures plus text,plus music on my desktop-tried adding it through gadgets-none worked-tried the other site in library2play-those wouldn't work either. (I left it trying to upload through gadget photo for over 2 hours!) So I did the assignment-used a few photos I took in Italy but here they sit on my desktop. I loved being able to use pictures I had, add text, add music then have a finished product-BUT-I could not do anything with what I spent all afternoon on except save it to my desktop. The icon shows a photo of a cartoon family with an arrow pointing to the right surounded by a round rainbow. Does that mean anything to anyone??? If I were a kid-I would have given up-but I have spend another hour trying to figure out how to upload when there was no upload on my site nor was I able to go from Library2Play highlighted instruction to anything like what was on their video podcasts. The fact that it was stated that this was on my computer was not correct. Very frustrated but still enjoyed the creating part!
I did have the necessary things-I just didn't know where they were-I did a search and finally up popped Photostory 3 so if you have problems-contact me and I can help you. As the Beatles said "I get by with a little help from my friends!"
Thank you FRIENDS!
I did not have the necessary downloads on my computer nor could I get photostory 3 to download.(my compter got almost throught then said it had found an error) I did a search on my computer-found what my compter said was photostory-saved it to my desktop using the directions as stated on Library2Play after I saw no where to upload to a blog. I looked through everything on the site I was using-still no upload to blog. Could send in email-upload to an mp3 player but no blog. I still have what I created from my own pictures plus text,plus music on my desktop-tried adding it through gadgets-none worked-tried the other site in library2play-those wouldn't work either. (I left it trying to upload through gadget photo for over 2 hours!) So I did the assignment-used a few photos I took in Italy but here they sit on my desktop. I loved being able to use pictures I had, add text, add music then have a finished product-BUT-I could not do anything with what I spent all afternoon on except save it to my desktop. The icon shows a photo of a cartoon family with an arrow pointing to the right surounded by a round rainbow. Does that mean anything to anyone??? If I were a kid-I would have given up-but I have spend another hour trying to figure out how to upload when there was no upload on my site nor was I able to go from Library2Play highlighted instruction to anything like what was on their video podcasts. The fact that it was stated that this was on my computer was not correct. Very frustrated but still enjoyed the creating part!
I did have the necessary things-I just didn't know where they were-I did a search and finally up popped Photostory 3 so if you have problems-contact me and I can help you. As the Beatles said "I get by with a little help from my friends!"
Thank you FRIENDS!
Thing 20 part two
Very intersting-I finally got my information to join Million Masterpiece.
Seems they are blocked from SBISD email-but when I finally got to play and paint, I discovered that this site is linked to Picasa, the site I just embedded into my blog.
Seems they are blocked from SBISD email-but when I finally got to play and paint, I discovered that this site is linked to Picasa, the site I just embedded into my blog.
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