final reflection

I liked learning about new technology out there. I would have to try next year to incorporate some of the things I learned into my teaching. Thanks Sara for putting this together!

comic websites

www.makebeliefscomix.com www.pixton.com www.toondoo.com I have used all of these, plus have given them out to my comic book club. I have even introduced it to some students that had to make a book for a content area class.

Prezi

I like the idea behind Prezis - but I would have to play with it for awhile to really find it affective for Strategies. I like the fact that you can zoom in when you really want the students to pay attention to something, so when teaching the mnemonics you can zoom in and out.

Voice Thread

I was thinking that I could use this for the visual imagery strategy. The students can describe the scene using their own words. The other students then can add to it.

Creative Commons

I was not familiar with this term until I watched the videos. I learned that I can use images as long as I say where I got them from, Something that I was already doing - especially with my club -
This is where I have used most of the images that I look up on Google.
No, I lied, I just looked around my room and saw the posters that my kids made. Some have where they got the images from, others don't. I will make sure that next year, my students will write where they got the images from.

Glogster

My daughter used Glogster in 4th grade, so I already knew about this "fear". I really liked how it worked and how she could show what she knew.

I see kids in my class using it to make their own versions of the mnemonics that they are learning.