Finished for now! Ready to continue to learn.

I took the survey and will be attending a Pennsylvania State wide 2.0 networked conference on Friday, September 19. I feel ready to enter into this world with other teachers from across the state. I did make presentation about web 2.o tools to teachers in my summer workshop. Much of this content I learned from this course. Get Your Brain In Gear - the future of education.
What I like best so far was what I learned from Bob Sprankle and his Bit by Bit podcast of how podcasting increases oral fluency and blogging will improve student writing. http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/This makes so much sense to me.
So...do I risk putting my blog address in my of my e-mailsignature? .....for all to see?

Week Nine C E-Books

I though I knew about e-books until I completed this lesson. I enjoyed Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. I really like the links at the Best Places to Get Free Books" site. I really enjoy audio books in my iPod to listen to on my drive to work. Last year we had Bruce Coville at our school and I downloaded many of his audio books and listened in the car and shared them by attaching my iPod to my boombox. I really like the Fullcast audio productions and have Playaways circulating at my school. I wasn't crazy about the robotic readings at Project Gutenberg.

Week Nine B - Podcasts

I really like podcasts. I subscribe to several and always enjoy listening in the car with my iPod. I have made podcasts using Audacity with kids and even have them in my iPod. I don't like the randomizing colors of Windows Media Player and think I will be more of a user of this technology when I use video podcasts or vodcasts. I want to have kids improve their oral fluency when they read into a microphone for a wider audience. I do like the music from royaltyfreemusic.com to put at the beginning of podcasts.
I have some podcasts that my students made at this site. http://www.crsd.org/5034298164240/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=62680

Week Nine - Teacher Tube

Since our district blocks YouTube, I found Will Richardson at TeacherTube. I shared this with our district librarians at our meeting this past week.

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=425bb5e4dc62c66937ef

Week Eight

WE have been working on curriculum renewal this summer at two workshops. I presented two documents to our librarians - the original and a revision that a group of us worked on in two summer workshops. I have now posted them on Google Docs and have invited all librarins in the district to comment. Let's see how this works for collaboration.

I am starting a biography unit with my sixth graders and wondered if Library Thing would be a good place to put the suggestions for the students. I will do a test with Destiny and with http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bauwarter

Week Seven C

I am hoping to have our Reading Olympics team members comment and add questions to our wiki http://mmwreadingolympicswiki.wikispaces.com/
We tried blogging last year and hope that this will have the kids become more focused on their responses to their books.

Week Seven B

I really like trading cards in BigHugeLabs. I think I will start the year with sixth graders selecting a biography and we will take a photo of them with their book - I like to do a Get Caught Reading poster at the beginning of the school year. The second week of school they can write a review and we can creat a trading card in BigHugeLabs. This should be fun.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
I may have the students make puzzles, too.