Twitter

I believe that twitter is a helpful site for those wanting to stay in touch with friends and family. It is similar to that of myspace, facebook, and yearbook.com; its simply a huge networking site, mainly only used for personal and uneducational purposes. If their is any type of educational situations to encounter on twitter, I would not be aware of them. I personal would not forsee any achievements from using twitter in my classroom and more than likely would not use this resource. I would not shy from encouraging them to use it at home, or in their own time to explore the site and to engulf any useful information it might provide.

kidcast

KidCast

Dan Schmit is helping to explain different ways teachers can help improve their in class assignments. He is explaining to teachers how podcasts can help kids learn in several different ways. He tells how they should listen to educational podcasts, then the teachers can ask them several question about the podcast, the student can listen, pause, replay, and write down notes that are important during the podcast. He explains how it helps kids be more interactive with the school work, making it more interesting to learn, they can answer the questions by audio, and the teacher can grade it accordingly, giving the students a different approach to learning. Dan also makes a good point in how the teachers can make it into a group project, where they are obtaining more than one learning skill by, having to review the criteria, learn the material, work together to achieve the answers, but at the same time enjoying the differential way of learning.

Classroom Blogs

In New Albany, New York, the blog site is intended for the Silver Street Elementary community to help parents and the community of New Albany to stay connected with the school. They allow the citizens to express their thoughts about the potential closure of the elementary school, but it also allows the parents to see when their are board/parent meetings.

http://savesilverstreet.blogspot.com/

Mrs. White's 2nd grade class, from Bloomfield, Missouri, has her blog set up for parents and her students to see what they are learning in class from day to day. She includes Spelling(with weeks spelling words) reading, math, science, report cards, and a AR subject that tells the levels and goals for the week. It is a great way for parents to see what their children are learning, and if they need to help them with a particular subject, they can be aware of what the curriculum is that they are learning.

http://white2ndgrade.blogspot.com/

Google

"Changing the way we think"

I believe the technology today is something that helps us learn rather than hender us. If you need to know or learn any information about anything and all you have to do is google it, why not? I dont believe it has ever changed or corrupted the way I think or made me "more stupid." No ones brain works, process's thoughts, or thinks the same way, so maybe for some people it may interrupt their thought, but for others it helps them retain and learn information. So it all depends in my opinion on everyones own personal encounters and the way it affects people differently.


"Googles GDrive"

The new G drive in a sense is a very helpful in some situations, but then again has its down fall, just like a PC does. So in some ways I dont think it matters where or how you save your informaton rather it be the G drive or PC, everything no matter what has its pro's and con's. The G drive is helpful by saving all your pictures, documents, and important information, with out having to worry about losing any of your data, by a crashed computer or virus. But on the other hand if all of your important information is saved on the web, once you start inputing your personal information, isnt there such thing as computer hackers out there? If there are computer hackers out there smart enough to create virus's, and hack into some of the most secured files in the world, wouldnt they be able to access our information since it would be saved on the web, where it could be accessed by any computer in the world? The PC is where that saves that from ever happening, unless they actually could get access to your personal PC in your house. Then on the other hand when your computer crashes, gets virus, your chances of losing all of your documents are very likely. So if you look at it either way, your always going to be faced with some down side no matter what, I havent found anything that is perfect yet.

The Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide ACCESS provides students with access to courses their schools may not offer. It allows students from any part of the state to learn in a virtual classroom environment and provides access to advanced diploma courses also additional course offerings. The program also allows students to repeat courses failed and stay on track! The most unique aspest about it is you don't have a teacher all work is done online. The tool will allow students to get more prepared and ahead for college. A poll was taken at a highschool and 75percent of the students said their virtual school experience was as good as or better than traditional. I think this tool will also help students become more technologically advanced. I think Access is a great quality learning program for all students.

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