Session+13+-+Saturday

Clarence Fisher – putting the pieces together A learning management system like Blackboard – these are good but you have to live within that box. When you are not in one of these systems you can go out a search on your own. Logo was a way to tie all of his classroom together Daybook is on Google Docs – advantage of this you is that you always have it with you if you have a computer and you can track your changes through the week. You can also share it with parents if you want to show what you did during the week. Google Docs – students do most of their writing on Google Docs so that they can always have their work with them. They can then share it with the teacher. Nothing ever gets printed out. Teacher marks it and then sends it back right on Google Docs. The student then always has the entire year’s work in one place and it is easy to pick things for their portfolio and to track their progress. Blogging – http://www.thinwalls.edublogs.org/ They work with a class in Los Angeles a couple of times a week. They have to comment on each other’s blogs and then with Google Spreadsheet they are required to keep track of who they Animoto –upload pictures – it has you pick music – and then it mashes everything together and it is a cool idea. http://animoto.com/ Animoto for Educators also exists. http://education.animoto.com/

Blogging in the Classroom – 1) teacher has a mother blog 2) just one blog per class and the teacher posts something and the kids respond to the blog. With younger students a teacher may have a couple of kids post a reply a day.

Classroom Flickr account – picture of the day, trips, assignments etc.

Wiki – studyingsocieties.wiki.com - kids write their own text book - iGoogle –personal start page – also has a class iGoogle page that has blogs feeding into it that the students are required to read. Global Voices online.org – this is a good tool for secondary kids to read – these are bloggers from all over the world. You can chose a country or a topic and read about it. Because it is a .org it may be blocked in China