Fun Friday

Fun Friday it is! Your creativity knows no bounds with all the resources introduced to us today. Music, words, pics, and colors of all shapes, sizes and designs can be used to make the SMC an extraordinary and fun place to learn using technology tools. We can teach our students how to WOW their classmates with a presentation that's sure to engage their audience. We can also use these tools to decorate the SMC by personalizing posters with student images and using student work.

Kristi and I worked together to create a presentation in ZOHO Show, an awesome online presentation tool similar to Microsoft Power Point. The program proved easy to navigate with many features to make your presentation come alive. All the other presentation sharing tools demonstrated by other classmates was pretty impressive. The majority of the programs were found to be easy-to-use and quick to learn, but most of all fun to work in. Taking notes in Webspiration was such a creative way to record key ideas and continually re-organize them.

Day 2

We flew through Day 2. There was so much material we covered and I certainly tried to keep up with the flow. I got left behind a few times but quickly got back on track. The Google lesson was the highlight for me. I was fascinated by all the apps available, and plan to use as many as I can. On Twitter I believe I'll be doing more reading than sending tweets. It seemed as though it can become very time-consuming. I found Delicious multi-functional, however it wasn't my favorite. I did like the Nings, wikis and social bookmarking sites. There is an unbelievable volume of information "out there" in cyberspace that we can interact with. Some of the resources we covered I will continue to use because I can already see the value, and realize how it can enrich my lifelong learning and communication. Since there are so many resources, I plan to be selective in which sites I follow. Learning all this has me ready to upgrade my mobile and computer technology to enjoy it to the fullest.

Using Blogs in the Library

Blogs are an excellent tool which can be brought into the media center for many fun projects. I'd like to use it to collaborate on classroom projects, and for group projects forums where classmates can review and comment on one another's digital book reports. The outcome of blogging I'd wish students to realize is their personal opinions count, and that they have a say so too, and to share, share, it's fair.There's so much to learn from one another as they're going through similar stages in life, with likes and dislikes, presenting a way to make new friends.