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June 29, 2009 NING  June 26, 2009 PHOTO STORY  June 25, 2009 POWER POINT WITH AUDIO AND VIDEO
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 * Idea #1: Ning could be used as a way to upload the projects students are creating. It could be used as a social network among your students to give feedback of different to projects or writing.
 * Idea #2: With the use of Ning it would be possible to create group work assignments. Students will not have to get together, they will just use internet to do their work.
 * Idea #3: Using Ning ESL students will get to communicate freely. So, creating a written project in collaboration with another student, sending messages, letters or just chatting to an English native speaker could enhance the ESL student's learning process.
 * Idea #1: It could be useful to follow the students' learning process. It could be used as a way to assess students' academic growth.
 * Idea #2: It is a wonderful tool to integrate different subjects in the curriculum.
 * Idea #3: For little students it is a wonderful tool to show how they solved story problems. It would be interesting to see how they show support of the procedure they followed when solving a problem.
 * Idea #4: In an art classroom it would be a great teaching tool to show process in how to make different kinds of art.
 * Idea #5: It could also be a good idea to show processes in any subject, water cycle, problem solving strategies, writing processes, to build patterns with the class and have them predict the next picture.
 * Idea #1: This could be a valuable tool to create dictionaries or glosaries about a specific topic.
 * Idea #2: Students could use power point to present biographies using videos where the person from whom you are creating the biography is talking.
 * Idea #3: It could be useful to do book reports to be shared in class. When students have to take tests on AR program books.
 * Idea #4: To present information before a unit. Give studens background about the topic of the day.
 * Idea#5: (From Dr. Raynolds) Use it when you know you will be absent and play your power point with video and audio.

June 24, 2009 MOVIE MAKER
 * Idea #1: In K I used movie maker to help students identify the beginning sound of words. Students took pictures and made a little movie saying the beginning sound of objects.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: This could be a wonderful tool to retell stories. Students can pass the pages of a book and read or retell the story.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #3: In first grade students made a movie of a trip to the zoo. Then they used it to remember what they saw in the zoo and build a brochure.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #4: Teacher can make movies of role plays students have done in the classroom. For Social Studies it could be a great source of discussion.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #5: When you want to teach students in K and 1st how to open a program. Teacher can record simple tutorial to help students and save Teacher's time.

June23, 2009 COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: To role play with my students the right and wrong uses of information and dialog with them the importance of respecting everybody's work.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: To bring about these facts concerning copyright and fair use to our teachers' meetings and share with them the importance of it in our role as educators.

June 22,2009 IGOOGLE
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: To organize pages I will use with my students in a certain project.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: To help my students create a project based in one topic.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #3: To upload videos previously created in youtube.

June 19, 2009 KIDSPIRATION
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: To organize ideas about a topic.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: For K, students can find pictures that start with a specific sound.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #3: To guide writing in young children levels.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #4: To classify, match, label. For different subjects like Math, Social Studies, Science, Reading
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #5: To create paperless tests.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #6: To encourage free writing.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #7: To show processes in a project.

VOICE THREAD
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: Get feedback from anyone in a class of anything; a picture, a video, work done, painting, letter and stories.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: To share experiences with others and have other people give opinions either recording their voices or writing.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #3: To see the process in a project using doodling. Doodling could be used to show steps in a process when teaching.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #4: To illustrate story problems in a group and collaboratively come up with an answer.

June 18, 2009 AUDACITY <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;"> MS PUBLISHER AND AUDIO
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: It could be use to deliver instruction to EC students or ESL students. They will have the opportunity to repeat the information as many times as they would like to.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: Record custom stories and have students bring their mp3 files home in a CD or Ipod.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #3: It could be use for pronunciation. Students are able to record their voices and self correct themselves.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #4: Record lecturers, upload them on a web site and make them available for school community.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #5: Valuable tool for reading comprehension activities. They can record their impression on a reading and react to reading by just recording. They could share their recordings in class.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: In K and 1st students can write simple stories or sentences and then they can read the story and record it. Audio is a helpful tool specially for ESL students. The fact that they can listen to themselves reading the story, and some other students can listen to their classmates' stories could be used as a peer assessment instrument.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: Students can also use publisher as a way to create a recipe. They will make their recipes and then introduce a piece of audio. This could be useful for Especial students.

June 17, 2009 PUBLISHER
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: My first grade class went to the zoo. My students had fun creating their brochures in Publisher. They had fun adding pictures and being able to see their work printed. At the beginning it was time consuming especially until they had more confidence with the program. After that, they could do most of the work by themselves.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: Kindergarten students made cards for mother's day using publisher. They enjoyed it and it was a simple way to expose them to the program.

June 16, 2009 WIKIS:
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #1: In my whole group reading classes my students want to comment and share the connections they have with the readings, but sometimes there is not enough time to listen to all of them. It makes me feel bad because I greatly value what how they could enrich our class with their comments. Using wikis for commenting on connections my students have in readings is a way we could facilitate this kind of interaction without missing anyone's ideas.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104); line-height: 22px; font-family: Cochin;">Idea #2: This year being a co-teacher, I experienced the importance of communication with my classroom teacher and the lack of time to meet and agreeing or enriching lesson plans. I find wikis as a means to facilitate communication. They could be used in a grade level or <span style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(78,12,207);"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(39,6,104);">PLC <span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(39,6,104);">groups.