Week 8 Thing 20

I signed up for the ning and facebook came to mind. This is a well designed social network website. I can see using this as a way to communicate with students.

Week 8 Thing 19

This is a tool that my wife and I use all of the time. We like to show places to our kids where we live and where we are going to vacation. This is a great tool to use to show students how big the world actually is. FUN.....

Week 8 Thing 18

Most inspiring nominess
This was a great slideshare for this time of the year. I plan on using these in my professional development classess. I can also see this being used in the classroom in place of powerpoint.

Week 7 Thing 17

I was searching for a podcast to look at and searched in many different places and was not successful in finding a link that would work on my computer. So I am wondering if this is something that I could expect my students to do if I can't then I would assume they can't. So I believe this is something that I would never use in my classroom.

Week 7 Thing 16

Youtube is a great way to keep up with current events. I was watching lots of things on Tiger Woods this past week. I think it is a great way to motivate students to get involved in their learning and take some interest in things relevant to them.

Week 6 Thing 15 My Crib

Thing 14 Week 6 voicethread

After playing around with the voice thread I think I could implement this into my classroom. I plan on using this as a tool for students to communicate with each other outside of the classroom. In my class we do a lot of team work but I had a hard time assigning team work outside of the classroom. This tool now will allow me to give students the opportunity to work together on their own time.

Week 5 Thing 13 Google Docs

This application is a great tool to use for communication. I am a Core Leader at my school and plan on using this tool to communicate with my colleagues. We can create spreadsheets to track data concerning our common assessments. This will be used to help generate disscussion about best practice in the classroom. This has been the most useful application I have explored yet.

Week 5 Thing 12 Wiki

I think the Wiki is a better tool for me to use in my classroom. I like the fact that students can edit your Wiki. I plan on using it as a Math Graffiti activity. Students will log on to my Wiki and edit the Homepage one step at a time. Then they will use the sidebar to explain the step that they did on the homepage.

Week 4 Thing 11 Wordle vs. TagCrowd

Both of these sites use word list to create a unique word picture. Wordle allows you to do more the the word picture such as color. Wordle also is more reader friendly. I could create a word picture and share with the class and have them brainstorm on what words they recognize and can define.

Week 4 Thing 11 Wordle

This was created at wordle.com

Week 4 Thing 11 Tag Crowd

-1 altitude angle arc area axis base cartesian circle circular circumscribed cone congruence coordinates cylinder dimensions figure formula geometric geometry golden height index interior isosceles leg line number oblique parallel parallelogram plane polygon polyhedron prism pyramid rectangle regular rotation segment similarity slope solid surface tan tests theorem trapezoid triangle trig

created at TagCrowd.com

Week 7, Thing 16

Week 3; thing 7; PLN and RSS Feeds

This is a a great way to collaborate with educators around the world or in our district.

Week 2, Thing #6, Glog

Great things can happen with this glog.

Week 2, Thing #5, Trading Card

This is my family and I on a Trading Card.

Week 1, Thing #3, Copyright

Discovered that when you download and image from someone else's pictures/works there are different categories of permissions for your use.

Week 2, Thing #4, Flicker Link

I love the Balloons...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-margie/2665412706/

Who needs Pythagorean Theorem????