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06/30/09 Ning I will be using Ning as a social network for my classes to upload their technology related work. They will also use Ning to evaluate each other's work and make comments.

06/29/09 Using Photo Story The teacher can develop a photo story to introuduce the unit of study. The students can use photo story to answer a specific question about a topic in the unit of study. They can then present these to the class, have open discussions about the presentations, and submit the presentations for a test or classwork grade.

06/26/09 The students can embed videos and audio in their power points and use them to explain different themes in different texts. This can be used as a review tool for the students or as a teching tool by the students. As the teacher, I can also use power point to deliver content in an interesting way. I can also set up a power point as anassessment tool. I can embed narrated intstructions and questions for students to follow and answer.
 * Using Power Point**

06/25/09 **Using Movie Maker** The students can use movie make to edit videos based on the topics of plot and narrative point of view.

06/24/09 Idea#1- All students need to know about the rules and/or guidelines governing copyright laws and fair use. I would have to model and teach the proper use of technology.

06/23/09 Idea#1- The students can create their own iGoogle page basd on any topic that we are covering. I would encourage them to make a list of subtopics that they would like to be able to reasech easily.They could always use these tools for help as needed. For eg. they can use an encyclopedia, dictionary or grammar tool as a quick reference guide.
 * iGoogle **

06/21/09 **Inspiration ** Idea#1-The students can use inspiration to create a mind map of what kinds of poems and stories they would like us to study. They can include reasons for their selections.

6/19/09 **Using Audacity **: Idea#1- The students could use the audacity program to create a class collection of recited poetry. They would be encouraged to play with the software by editing and adding effects to the poems to make them more entertaining. I could then save all the files to an external drive, import them all into one large audacity file, and create a poetry showcase of the recordings for each of my classes.

Idea#2- The tecaher could create audacity tutorials that could guide students on how to critique essays and state steps on how to edit their own essays. It would take a trremendous amount of time and effort but I could even personalise each tutorial to fit the students individual writing focus skill.

6/18/09

Idea #1- this would be a valuable tool for students to use for persuasive writing including propaganda techniques. The students could create brochures advertising a product or a destination vacation. They could unleash their creativity by playing with the font colors and objects in publisher but they would also demonstrate their knowledge of the standards by using persuasive language and at least two propaganda techniques in the brochure.I would require them to do something special with the techniques and the persuasive devices i.e hightlight them, put them in color etc.
 * Using MS Publisher **:

6/17/09 MEDIA SHARING **Eyespot**: Idea #1- Character Depiction: students could use Eyespot as a part of a quarter long project on Identifying character traits. I could assign or (allow them to choose) a character from a story After learning about character traits and stated and implied characterization they could create their own videos/mixed videos with audio. These should depict the traits of a particular character in these videos. Students could then view each other videos and do an Eyespot blog on the videos that they viewed. They must be sure to make their comments based on class discussion or notes i.e. their knowledge of characterization.

**Flickr:** Idea#2- Creating a Storyboard: students could use this to create a storyboard. They would get a chance to upload their own pictures or picture from the web to create a story board that depicts the main parts of the plot of a story we have studied. They can add neat notes to these plot part depictions (pictures). They can also blog about each other’s postings on what they know about parts of a plot.