Session 10 Reflections

Lost the previous blog looking at free web. Suffice to say that the class time isn't boring for me, and loving the del.icio.us potential. Sally and I modified one of the graphic organizers to serve as a notetaking page -- we were going to use PowerPoint for notetaking but NWEA's are going to take up our computer time... so it's traditional paper/pencil notetaking for us. :D

Session 9 Reflections

Thanks for the time to dis.cov.er del.icio.us. I've already gathered some good links and plan to import my bookmarks from both school and home.

PowerPoint is such a good tool for organizing and notetaking... however, I'm rapidly losing faith in its presentation power. It's still "stiff" compared to video, or even flash sites.

Session 8 Reflections

Best things learned in class: Google Personalized Home Page, Citation Maker, and the project rubric

Refreshers: PowerPoint, Bubbl.us (still not saving for some reason -- Steve? any ideas why?), graphic organizers

Really enjoying the time to work on the project, which Sally and I are implementing currently.

Session 7 Reflections

Repost:

First attempt was lost when I installed Flashplayer to use the Bubbl.us site. Let's see if I can remember what we looked at...

Subject Directories: They'll be useful if there are enough sites for the topic you're looking for (we noticed there weren't many on a few very specific topics) and it's good that they've been reviewed and that they're safe.

Note-taking: Trash-n-treasure would be useful if the students had a good handle on the technique or if it were done as a whole group activity. With individual topics, it would be difficult to monitor everyone's progress. If students could keep to the idea of one idea per card (if using index cards) or if they could use a graphic organizer that kept ideas (with their details) separate, then that would be good progress for 4th graders.