http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 15 May 2008 13:44:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once upon a time a teacher told me that parents should not buy digital watches for their kids because the kids would not learn how to tell time.  Likewise, if they have Velcro shoes they won’t learn how to tie shoes.  If they only “talk” to each other over the ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/15/thing-23/ I enjoyed making changes to my pageflake.  The only problem is there are so many choices.  I was interested in some of the comments that were made about the choices as they helped me to choose what I wanted to add.  As for educational uses, I am toying with the ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/14/thing-21/ Here is the thing.  All of this is very interesting, and I am definitely putting a mental bookmark in my mind to match these websites with future curriculum plans.  However most of the things I find are just not that useful in my teaching situation.  Our children are so young ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/13/thing-22/  I can certainly see how these two sites could keep you occupied for a long time.  There is so much to choose from.  I was already convinced that anything you want to know is some where on the internet.  I even have my non-technological husband looking for things on the ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/thing-19/ Wow, This one was hard.  I couldn't get my equipment to work, but finally with a lot of help from coach, Kim, I was successful.  I am really looking forward to implementing this program.  I keep thinking of even more things I can Podcast. http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/08/thing-18/ Very much like UPN.  We are planning to do a podcast on our Bug reports for second grade.  They will do research from websites garnered from our delicious account and embedded in our wiki.  They will then take notes and write a report that they will then podcast about the pictures they ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/05/thing-17/ We are sharing a Google Doc with web sites that we can use with the students for research.  We can put these websites in our wiki and the students have a safe place to research.  My co-teacher and I work together on several projects and have to save them to ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/02/thing-20/ I am a habitual list maker.  I have to do list on my work desktop and my home desktop, my home desk and work desk.  I don’t have any great desire to share these personal things, but who knows, maybe getting a cheer might help me stay on track with ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/02/thing-16/ Personally I can use Library Thing to help keep track of books I have read by a particular author and find more books in that genre or by that author.  For my classroom I could catalog my children’s books using the tags, so that I can find books on a ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/02/thing-15/ I went to 30 boxes but I found that difficult to navigate.  The directions were not clear or even there for someone like me.  Then I went to Mixbook and created a scrapbook with the pictures I got from Flicker.  Very easy to navigate and I was happy to use ... http://sciencevicki.edublogs.org/2008/05/01/thing-13/