New Great Sites
Today's class had my mind swimming with all the possibilities in technology. I am glad I am leartning about what is out there but I feel very far out of the loop.


http://delicious.com/ Social Bookmarking has been confusing for me and I now understand what the power is. I am not sure how I could use it with students but I am wondering about the education side of DIIGO for the students to collect their research sources. I am defiantly going to join Delicious and think the Common Core Exploring could be a powerful focus for this tool. In just seconds I fould this booknmark page that offers wonderful links.

http://delicious.com/stacks/view/P8bJok Common Core State Standards

I also want to explore special education sites and find out more about apps for preschoolers. I find my bookmark in favorites are too linier and it would be great to have a site to collect and save my research. It is also something I could share with special education teachers and parents of special needs students.


http://freerangestock.com/ I am looking for photos for biography project and think this could be a good source. The older shots to show a person age progression. It would be great to have another source for my students other than Google Images. Just today I was unable to scan photos from Time For Kids and the students ended up using the internet to get their own images.


http://www.doodle.com/ Calendar scheduling – I can’t wait to use this site to try to schedule with the Blazes teachers. I have 11 teachers to pull together for student field trips. It will be a lot simpler to have the Doodle to see when they want to schedule their student tutors. The kids will also enjoy being part of this process.


http://thinkfinity.org/ Teacher resources – I haven’t been back to explore Kathy Schrock’s site and need to check out what is new. The Verizon site seems more modern with be a great source.  areas http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/authordate.html


Social Media- I am a used of Facebook and am seeing the obsession that happens. I am glad they there is a 12 year and older limit but think that age will come down soon. I have never friended parents or students but have had friends become parents and that can be awkward. I have tight privacy settings but I know many who do not even have privacy set. I love the idea of using Fake Book and am going to incorporate it in my next biography project.
http://classtools.net/fb/home/page


Second Life - This site is scary to me. I am not clear on the “normal” uses but think there could be a lot of people living in this world and not embracing real life. It is important as a teacher to be aware and I need to keep an open mind. My gut says that this is not a place I want to be part of. http://secondlife.com/?gclid=CN6IhcG04q4CFUPc4Aod_yh7ZQ Second Life