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EDT 650 [|MarianSchoolBlog]

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 * I have been working to add more to my WIKI space. In addition to organizing my assignments for EDT 650, I have added pages for academic areas that I teach. I will put web-sites and other resources on these pages that I can use in my classroom. I am also going to use it to reflect on how I can do things differently in the future and what things went really well in the classroom.**

In addition to the blog that I had emailed to you earlier, I have created a blog that I can use in my district. It is located at the following address: [] This will be the blog that I use with my students. I have added a few pages with information about myself and class news. I have also added some sites that will be useful for my students.

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This was a front page article in a newspaper talking about how blogs and other technologies are being used in classrooms. The main point was how we are seeing more technology in the elementary classrooms, than in high school. This seemed interesting to me because I was amazed to hear that high school students don't spend as much time using technology as elementary classes. It also gives some ideas of how teachers are using technology.

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This article discusses lots of ways to use blogs in classrooms. I especially liked the ideas about commenting about a field trip, reflecting on teaching practices and lessons, and using the blog to share data from science experiments so the whole class could see it.

[] Although this article was very old (2004), it had some good information about how blogs can be used in the classroom. It spoke a lot about how blogs would replace teacher web-sites because of ease of use. Other advantages of blogs that were mentioned were: helping shy students to come alive and share their ideas more, extends learning even outside of the school day, allows teachers to give feedback more quickly, and pushes students to do their best because others will be seeing their work.

__**Assignment 4:**__ [] This is an interactive site dealing with pictographs. It gives a presentation about what pictographs are and then has a quiz where students would read pictographs and answer questions about them. Since this is a skill that stumps some students on the WKCE, I would use it to help them get a better visual of how pictographs work.

[] This is an interactive spinner that could be used to explain probability. Students set the number of spots on the spinner, then test it to see what color has the greatest probability of being landed on. They can play around with settings so that the colors have different amounts.

[] This site gives lots of information for students to learn about 3D shapes. They can manipulate the shape to see all sides, highlight the angles, vertices and faces, as well as see how the shape can be made from a piece of paper. I would use this site to review these 3D shapes. We have found our students have a hard time knowing what they look like on all sides and this was nice because they could rotate the shape to see all sides.

[] This teacher created her lesson plan based on sequencing. She used PhotoStory 3 to create a presentation of what she did in the morning. Then the students used a comic strip site to create their own sequencing comic. It was a neat site that allowed students to choose characters, speech balloons, and props to add to their comic strip. It looks like it would be a nice way to teach sequencing and the students would be engaged while doing it.

[] This lesson shows how students can get “keypals” to communicate with other the Internet. They practice their writing skills by writing letters to other people. There are quite a few sites for finding keypals in this lesson. Sounds like it would be fun, but not sure if it is something that would be allowed in all districts. __**Assignment 5:**__ __**Assignment 6:**__ When doing this assignment, I was amazed at how many different Web 2.0 sites that I wanted to subscribe to. I subscribed to surveymonkey and eduglogster. Also, I explored the classtools.net, school tube, timetoast and podbean sites. I set up a survey on the survey monkey site that I can give to my students that is a reading inventory. It asks them questions about how they feel about reading and their interests. I gave a similar survey on paper, but like the options that this site has to gather all of the information. I think it would also be interesting seeing how it would work for quizes. The glogster site that I subscribed to was very interesting because I know my students will love how interactive it is. They will create online posters that can cover a wide range of things. I am working on developing a lesson where they would use the site to create a Native American "glogster" to show what they had learned through their research. I used the classtools.net site to create different arcade style games with information from my first math unit. [|www.edu.glogster.com] [|www.classtools.net] [|www.surverymonkey.com] [|www.timetoast.com] [|www.podbean.com]

[] This is a game that I created that goes along with math unit 1.

 This is a reading inventory survey that I created.

__**Assignment 7:**__ Games or interactive teaching tools.

[|[[http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/storymap/index.html]]] This was a tool that I coud use with students to comment on their guided reading book. They can choose to use an interactive tool to write about the characters of the book, problem and solution, or setting.

[] I would use this site to show the format for friendly and business letters. It is interactive, so students can type in the information for each part of the letter and then it is put together for them.

[] This is a probability game. Students choose how many of each color marble they would have in a bag and then choose the number of trials. Then very quickly they will see the results of the trials so they can relate it to probability. [] I made this word search to go with our motion and design unit. On this site, you can create word searches, crossword puzzles, mazes and other puzzles. [] Other probability games organized like a fair where students play games to win tickets. [] This is an analogy game that is set up like Jeporday.