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
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
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.
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.
Monday, April 2, 2007
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.
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.
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.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Session 6 Reflections
Having time to work on our project is really helpful... Big6 is in our brains, and if we have questions, the flesh-n-blood references are right there. Besides, Sally and I probably wouldn't have (or make) the time outside the school day to get this much planning done! :D
Critically thinking about websites at 4th grade shouldn't be too hard if we keep it in perspective... because even if they leave 4th grade aware of the fact that not everything on the web is "good" to use for research and that they should doubt the source unless there's a good reason to trust it.... then we've done our part of their K-12 technology curriculum.
Critically thinking about websites at 4th grade shouldn't be too hard if we keep it in perspective... because even if they leave 4th grade aware of the fact that not everything on the web is "good" to use for research and that they should doubt the source unless there's a good reason to trust it.... then we've done our part of their K-12 technology curriculum.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Session 5 Reflections
Search Strategies: indexes, Boolean searches, limiters.
Best thing learned: site limiters i.e. site:edu or site:gov etc. to limit results
It's a tired Monday afternoon... so there's not a lot of excess energy left for reflection.
Making a wiki in class was good for everyone to see how easy it is.
My own classroom wikispaces project is moving along nicely. Go see!
Best thing learned: site limiters i.e. site:edu or site:gov etc. to limit results
It's a tired Monday afternoon... so there's not a lot of excess energy left for reflection.
Making a wiki in class was good for everyone to see how easy it is.
My own classroom wikispaces project is moving along nicely. Go see!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Session 4 Reflections
MARVEL is MARVELOUS! Google has been circular-filed. Any searches the kiddos will be doing will be going through MARVEL. It's amazing how much information (already categorized) is out there. (Does this spell an eventual phazing out of librarians/media specialists?? just kidding, Connie)
As for blogging?? hmmm... I've never been much of a journaler, so this wouldn't be done outside of class (for me at least)... but it serves as a good tool for our colleagues to see what we're all thinking, asking questions we might not think of in class, hear feedback from our excellent instructors without taking up too much class time.
I'll probably look up the wiki thing on my own, because I'm working on a class-created story... it would be keen for the kids to be able to add to it whenever/wherever the fancy struck them. Then we could also pass the finished version's link to whomever we'd like to read it. Hmmm... more thoughts on this later.
As for blogging?? hmmm... I've never been much of a journaler, so this wouldn't be done outside of class (for me at least)... but it serves as a good tool for our colleagues to see what we're all thinking, asking questions we might not think of in class, hear feedback from our excellent instructors without taking up too much class time.
I'll probably look up the wiki thing on my own, because I'm working on a class-created story... it would be keen for the kids to be able to add to it whenever/wherever the fancy struck them. Then we could also pass the finished version's link to whomever we'd like to read it. Hmmm... more thoughts on this later.
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