Blogging

Mostly I began this blog as a requirement for a course of mine, educational technology. I now have hopes of keeping up with this blog as a place to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.

Assignment 13: Wallwisher

What an amazing idea this is for the students and teachers alike. It allows for collaboration between others anonymously and publicly. I agree and plan to use as described by the wallwisher presentation, about how children do not want to ask or answer questions publicly. I think that this way the answer is asked and all the students can see it and the following answer, but no one knows who asked and there is no embarrassment of asking student. I know that as a student I was nervous to ask questions in class so I wish that there had been anonymity when I was in school.
One could think of this technology as the new and improved bulletin board of today.

Assignment 11: Mindmap

Mindmaps, well the uses I am sure are almost impossible to count. This future teacher can see this as a wonderful way to help students connect and organize ideas for writing assignments. This would also be a way for students to organize and differentiate between assignments for separate classes.
I can also see this being a help for teachers, seating plans to begin with. A mindmap would be a wonderful tool to help with lessons, keeping on track with what has been and what has not been lectured on and what area will be next in the lecture.
This is just to name the few that came to mind...maybe i should make a mindmap to organize my thoughts on how mindmaps could be used in the classroom.

Assignment 9: Wikis

Because Wikis are able to be altered students are able to change and add to the information posted to the class' wiki site. This allows for collaboration of ideas from each of the students in the class. I as the teacher would begin the text and ask for students to correct any mistakes they may see in what I have written or to add on to the information.
Also teachers could use wikis to help students organize idea or to discuss plans for assignments and classwork.

Assignment 9: Blogs I Follow

1. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/

On Special Education

2. http://teachers.net/mentors/special_education/

Autism Help

3. http://twitter.com/#!/TeacherNyla

Nyla Phillips-Martin

I follow these Blogs and I use google reader to follow them.

http://www.google.com/reader/
I found these blogs by first entering into google the word education. Then I added to that one word phrases such as Special education and Educational help. This brought up large numbers of lists of blogs and I honestly chose the ones that caught my eye first and sounded interesting.

Assignment 8: Altered Image.

 I used yearbookyourself.com on this site I was able to take and image of myself and insert it into a template of a picture. My face became the face of someone from 1968. I was able to resize my image in order for my face to fit into the picture's face area. I was also able to flip my face so I am facing the opposite direction from my original image and I rotated my face slightly to give the illusion of the glasses sitting on my nose.http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

Assignment 7: Spell With Flickr