More thoughts of Thing 6

My diigo http://www.diigo.com/user/pannelledlife is going to be a great source of information that I can use and can have my students use. I have to figure out a good project that will tie in technology and how I can use this to help teach. I want my students to be able to use the technology and know what is out there for them to use. We already use wiki spaces in one of the reading classes http://bcswikis.barrow.wikispaces.net/mccallcharacters. I think I am ready to try one of my own.

Thing 6

Now I have my diigo set-up and working. OH MY!!!!! Being able to see all of your favorite websites and being able to get to them from anywhere in the world as long as you have internet connection. I started out with some of my basic ones that I use on a regular basis. Now I keep adding more based on what I want to know.

Thing 5 and 5a

I have had my google reader for about two weeks now and I am loving being able to glance and get information. When I was out, week before last, I was able to get to my blog and post through wikispace, and with my diigo I could get to my bookmarks. This is a great thing. I was not at home where all of my favorites are stored on my one computer, but since I had setup my wiki I was able to get to them.


SMARTBoards and Updating the Lesson Activity Toolkit

Well I am getting a smartboard soon and I have been trying to find out as much info as possible. So one of my reader site is Teachers Love Smart Boards

The blog above is a very helpful one talking about how to update lessons and a toolkit resource. I can't wait till I can post some of my own flip charts and save them in a blog. But, this will have to wait till next school year.

Thing # 3

Well not much to be said about Things 3 and 4, but WOW!!! I had know idea about all the information that you could get without having to keep searching for it. I set the daily news as a feed in my Google reader and I can just skim the headlines to see if I want to read more about the article. I did and still am have a little trouble with one of the feeds and can seem to figure out what to do. http://www.techlearning.com/blog does not seem to be the most friendly blog to try and follow. I cannot ever seem to get just one part.

Anyone else having trouble with this one?

Help Please!

Talking about the world at your finger tips, it is all here and more that you may ever need or want. I love watch my Google Reader and it just keeps showing more information each minute.

Thing #2 part 2

Ok, so here I am again back to my same old self. I have stated before the Time is NOW. -http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=349/ In this blog he states along the same lines that I do, We Must embrace the technology at hand and start using it in our classroom.

If we look at the blog on the new digital divide.- http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/the-new-digital-divide/, we see that those views are also about not where we are but where we need to go and how do we take our students there with us. I worked in Resturant/ Retail Management for many years before I decided to become a teacher. Every year we would get new technology to make ours jobs easier and make sure our inventory was where it needed to be to make sure what we brought in was going out through sales and not through theft. Well now I am a teacher and I can definently say that techonolgy in the schools does not even attempt to keep up with the real world. When I first started teaching the computers I was using still had Windows 98 on them, well the rest of the world was already using Windows 2000 and then XP. Well now technology is Windows Vista, but we are still on XP. Times do change and the cost do effect everything we do, but Are we hindering our students by not keeping up with the times so that they will know how to use the technology that is out there.


If our children are our future then we as parents and educators need to support and want for our kids to be able to learn on the latest and greatest technoloy there is. Our government needs to provide the financial resource so the antique-dinosaurs, we call computers, can be replaced as often as the technology of the future happens. We keep saying we want our student to perform to the standards of the world and we are relying on them to be able to go from school to the workforce and be the most creative productive people in the world, but I don't think we do the students justice if we can't give them all that technology has to offer to them.

As is written in this blog Imagine turning on a facuet..... -http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2007/10/07/imagine-turning-the-faucetand-nothing-coming-out

What if this happens in technology?

Can our students really be prepared if we don't give them the tools?

How can we expect what we can't provide?

Thing #2 part 1

Reading different blogs, I have noticed that there is not really any correct or incorrect way to make a blog or to write in one. *They can be short, They can be long. They can be written to persuade or simply to inform, they can also be used just as a venting space to see what others are experiencing and how we can help each other.*

Reading a blog is no different than reading a story, Writing a blog seems to be less formal.

The way I see a blog---- I can use them to inform----or I can use them to get others opinions on some topic that I am interested in. The more people that respond to or comment on a particular blog, the more knowledge I can gain. If I am using one to inform, then my students can make their comments according to what I have posted.

Collaboration is the key to greater success. The more communication between students and their classmates and with their teachers, the better the outcome of their education. When we post to someone else's blog we must take care to only enhance what is written. We are not there to criticize but to gain knowledge and add supporting comments or simply comment on a differing opinion, or give our own slant to a blog.

These are my thoughts right now, I am still investigating my opinion and will post more in part 2.

Thing #1B stretch

What if?

All the books combusted. We need more information that our school had.

What if a student was so interested in a topic, and we could not help them?

What if…..?

Our time is here and our time is now. We must embrace technology and start using what we have and keep pushing for more. How can we say we want to teach if we don’t want to learn ourselves. Our goal as people in a society should be to learn something new everyday. If we don’t we can never prepare our students to be all that they can be or need to be for a successful life. Our students here in 2009 will be performing jobs that don’t even exist yet but are on the edge of reality as we no it.

I want to catch up to where I am at the best position to force my students into the reality of what they will have to accomplish just to be able to survive.

There was a time when a Bachelors degree was enough, but now if we do not educate ourselves, we miss the boat on what the students of tomorrow and beyond need.