Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Thing 21 Productivity Tools

About 3 years ago I created a Dropbox account to replace my USB. I was really happy with this tool and it served its purpose for me. Eventually , I changed to Google drive and have not been using Dropbox . I like that Google Drive has collaboration abilities that I don't have in Dropbox. Im really looking to find a tools that will help me collect all of the blogs, wikis, and other tools I have used and put them in one place. I have so many that I can't remember  all of them. I need for the tool to search my name and find all of my online presence.  I had a hard time trying to remember  and retrieve the information for my blog tonight.

I signed up for an Evernote account and added a video to a notebook. I actually was trying to find a DIY project on video that showed how to create LED necklaces, so I accomplished a few things with this assignment.

Sunday, May 11, 2014



Thing 20

My school's libguide. I'm still trying to build it.


http://phs.poughkeepsieschools.libguides.com/content.php?pid=314988&sid=2583642

 


Thing 19 Online Learning:


                                      I have always been a life long independent learner!
Whenever I don't know how to do something or want some new ideas, I do my research. I have favorite websites that I often referred to. So I constantly create my own learning plans and seek out knowledge as needed. 

This was a great  article and listed some good resources for DIY. 
                         http://www.edutopia.org/blog/4-components-diy-pd-toolkit-dave-guymon

Last summer I went to a tech camp at Ulster BOCES, it was excellent and I learned some awesome tricks of the trade.

In May I will graduate from NYIT with my MS in Instructional technology. I'm really excited to sahre my new knowledge with the teachers at my school. The degree coupled with my MLS should make for some interesting new lesson plans at my school.

Starting on  Monday, May 12 I have enrolled in an online class offered through Ulster BOCES about creating a virtual class, I'm looking forward to this class. 
It was hard to keep up my NYIT classes and the Cool Tools  .I really love the Cool Tools concept its a great way to learn and fits in with thing 19. Keep up the good work your instruction is fantastic and relevant .

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Thing 18


I really liked the lesson plan that used the paper blogs to help students understand the process behind blogs and the importance of  being mindful of what you say online. Great lesson.




Sunday, March 16, 2014

Thing 17. Coding

I created this by doing a remix in scratch

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Thing 16

I recently collaborated with a global teachers and we took a lesson and integrated technology throughout the lesson Its going to be used for regents review. It has videos, interactives, games and group collaboration using the web tool, Popplet.. We also integrated Quizlet.




Thing 15

I tried to create a lesson using Educreations. I had to use my IPAD to use the web tool. It took me a while to figure it out.   I always saw other people creating lessons using this format but I didn't know what they were using . Voila now I know its Educreations.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Thing 14 Social Reading and Book Stuff



I do use Good Reads to keep track of the books I have read and to share reviews. It's a good resource.
I have not had the chance to rate 20 books.


For this thing , I decided to revisit Overdrive. I'm so happy that I did. It has improved since I last tried to use it from home.  I had to dig around to find my library pin number and card, At last I was sucessful. I tried to search for a James Patterson novel and of course they had several. All of a sudden a light bulb went off and I remembered that a teacher had asked me to buy, " A Child called It"  as an ebook.

Front CoverI was not able to buy it from any of my school vendors.
 So, voila ! I searched Overdrive and there it was.


I checked it out after watching the tutorial on how to use Overdrive.  I'm so excited to use Overdrive.




Monday, January 20, 2014

Thing 13 Media Skills

There are many new tools to try in this section. I'm still creating so watch for more!

Thing 13 Media Skills

I had fun creating an animated gif. However I really need some instruction in working and editing photos.
I made a quick slide suing some photos i had on my desktop. I can see that this could be beneficial for slide shows if I had better photos to work with.  Is this ho they do the slide show with the book titles on websites???
check out my first try using <make a gif.com>
http://makeagif.com/i/zZkdm0
I need to slow it down , will work on that soon.