Thing #23 Final Reflection

Well I have finally finished this part of the TIS assignments. Since many of the tools were new to me, I had to play around awhile before I was comfortable in completing the assignments. I really like the wordle and wallwisher. By just reading the 5 ISTE standards I would not completely understand how to incorporate them into my classroom but after completing these assignments I see how students would benefit from these websites.
I am anxious to introduce the teachers in my school to these tools. I plan on presenting my blog to the faculty at the next faculty senate. I think this would be more beneficial than just emailing them the link.

#8a Create a cheatsheet

here is the link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmqUP8OUPvLWEN6Rk9JOXFPN3c/edit

#8b Create a video tutorial

http://www.screenr.com/wPr7

This is my video tutorial on how to create a twitter account.

Thing #15 RSS

Well I tried to use the flipboard app on my galaxy and it would not let me. I tried to go around that by using my phone then taking a picture of it and emailing the picture to the computer.  I found these extra steps annoying. I will continue to examine better ways to use flipboard. It seems really interesting. it has facebook and twitter as well as sports and photography.
One sentence definition of RSS as I understand it...RSS is a program on many websites that was created to make constant feeds or updates possible which provides the subscriber that abilty to see all the information at once as it occurs.

Thing 22 Reflect on a Conference

I attended the session titled 100+ STEM Websites &Webtools. This session was very informative. Not only did she provide a livebinder that had numerous websites nicely arranged but she was able to include websites that special education students can use. I especially liked the biodigital human. I have to agree she also through her presentation taught me to use livebinders. I am now able to pull up educational breaks using the computer. She also gave us access to monthly calendars suggesting a new website each day of the month.  She works at Beaufort County School District, and attended South Carolina State University.Currently she is an Instructional Technology Specialist.

Thing #7 Play with images

This is a picture taken at a science training class. Theresa and I took time to laugh at ourselves. I took this picture on the tablet and used photoeffects. I dimmed the lights, gave the picture a border and increased the contrast. this project taught me that playing with images to create certain effects can be fun.

Thing #21 reflect on a webinar

http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2012/08/teaching-shakespeare-with-twitter.html  https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2012-08-25.0840.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/459895

My blog is about a wonderful website titled Teaching Shakespeare with Twitter. I started watching the video on Sept. 3 but restarted it Sept. 7. I found it very interesting. The presenter was Danika Barker. She had numerous ideas about how to incorporate twitter using hashtags and online conversations between students. She gave the link to her livebinder which has additional resources to use as you teach the lesson. She discussed letting the students take on different characters while they use twitter and describing their feelings.  This is definitely an idea for teaching classics but unfortunately not something I can utilize in my classroom.