Joan says

This course has been a difficult, yet great learning experience for me.   I hadn’t had enough exposure before this course to the concept that the internet can foster collaborative learning among learners who connect with each other.  Therefore, learning more about wikis, blogs, google docs, voice threads, and pod casts, has taught me that the [...]

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Wow! I really love the idea of this because, in my opinion, it has a purpose. Once school starts, I would never have time to just social network to see what my friends are doing, so I haven’t gotten involved in Facebook, etc. However, the idea of social networking with other Social [...]

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I just read and looked over an article from “Successful Teaching” in my reader. The article was about “20 Places to Find Curriculum Ideas and lesson plans online.” The author gives 20 sites that are good for teachers to explore over the summer. One site I looked at was PBS [...]

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I didn’t have a great experience with Pageflakes. I tried to get the template of K12Learning but couldn’t do that, so I used someone else’s template who had managed to get the k12 template. Then, I started trying things and had more success. I did add an RSS feed so I was [...]

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I really enjoyed exploring Google Docs and thinking about all the ways I could use it in my classroom. Instead of using paper and copies from the copier, students could look to see on a document I create, what I expect them to do for their current events for my Social Studies class. [...]

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At the moment, the only way I can think of using podcasts in the classroom is to let students use podcasts to verbally publish their research on something. If students were divided into groups with different topics, they could produce a podcast to inform other groups of their information.

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A Youtube such as the one in my blog about Constantine could be very useful in my classroom as an introduction to a unit in ancient history. I didn’t like teachertube as much…it was very slow and I didn’t find many good ones.

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I looked at both youtube and teachertube for youtubes on topics I teach.  I think the appropriate use of youtube for teaching purposes would be great except that many of them are very short compared to the dvds and videos I have ordered that go with the units I teach.  However, the youtubes could be [...]

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I think podcasts could be used in education.  However, I am not quite sure yet to what extent they could be used.  I looked at the Education Podcast Network and at the NPR Podcast Directory.  I searched Social Studies podcasts that had to do with ancient history and geography.  I liked the NPR Geo Quiz [...]

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I enjoyed looking at Library Thing.  However, since I don’t teach Lang. Arts, I am trying to decide if it would be helpful in my Social Studies classes, or if I might rather use it for personal use only.  The problem with using it in my class is that the students are required to read [...]

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