Tool # 8

The following link is to a video I found on Blinkx but it is originally from TeacherTube. It relates to Sojourner Truth.

http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/great-women-in-history-sojourner-truth/qNviWRuX0sjY8Z1Hk076Tw

The video I posted as a separate post comes from youtube and it is the "I have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

These two videos along with the knowledge of video streaming will be very useful for social studies amongst other subjects in my class.

Tool # 7

Out of about 800 photos I picked 15 to tell a short story. I think it worked out very well, it is like a summary of my trip. Thanks to digital storytelling I can share it fast without boring too many people.

Digital storytelling will create a fast way to review topics in my classroom.

Tool # 6

Before this training the only wiki I had used was Wikipedia, and even then I didn't know what a "wiki" was. Now I know that a wiki is an interactive source of information created by many people. Thanks to the SBISD 21st Century Learner Wiki , I found a wiki created by a 2nd grade class in a Californian elementary school.

http://mrsibrahim.wikispaces.com/

This wiki shows me what other second graders can do with technology. From this wiki I see that students get great satisfaction from having their work published on the net. I find it very instructional for other teachers to share their work so we can learn from them and follow their steps as we create our own classroom wikis.

Tool # 5

I opened a Diigo account and did the required bookmarks and joined the group "Teachers without borders".

Two of the websites I discovered and bookmarked are:

http://science.pppst.com/simplemachines.html
http://www.kids.gov/k_5/k_5_social.shtml

to find these sites I used tags such as "simple machines" and "kids history".

Social bookmarking will be useful in my classroom to simplify the finding of information and going straight to a certain topic.

Tool # 4

Now that I've learned how to use these tools it would be interesting to have a document created and corrected by the entire class. I posted a document in "Google Docs" and sent it to two people.

I went to "Google Reader" and subscribed to multiple feeds as I've learned they're called. I hope time will make me better and faster with the 11 tools.

A few of the sites I used as feeds for "Google Reader" are:

uschess.org
discoveryeducation.com
nytimes.com
this blog, and the 11 tools themselves.

Tool #3

In this part I used two images, download one to Imagechef and the other to Wordle to create the images posted. Yes I have to spend more time to become familiar with the so many web sites we can use in class.

TOOL # 2

I like the idea of 2 billion learners and teachers working together. I am glad that thanks to this training I am on the way to become one of them.