Lisa+Noe

I use Hootsuite to watch and interact with the groups I subscribe to on Twitter. I am hoping to connect with other teachers that would like to share ideas and lessons using Web 2.0 tools.



Reflection: This is a new project for my Computer Applications class. We are just introducing Web 2.0 tools by creating gmail accounts and having students create a document on a country and collaborate with another student in another class. There are some kinks that will need to be worked out like when one of the students has been absent. I would like to expand on this project and perhaps have the students also create a prezi presentation or a glogster poster with more information on the country to present to the class. I would also like to share their work on my class wiki. The students seem really interested in learning something new since they think they already know everything about my class if they know how to type or make PowerPoint. I think I can expand on the idea and would also like for my students to edit each others' work eventually. I'm sure I will learn more about what to do or not to do as I go along. It is just the beginning.

Here is a lesson that I plan to use with my Computer Applications classes. They will have to sign into their Gmail school account and use Google Docs to create this document. They will be collaborating with another student and will have to "share" it with the other student to allow them to "edit" it by adding their required part. I would also like to create an assignment that has them use the information they have found to create a presentation in Google docs. I will probably add that to my lessons this fall.

My Delicious Bookmarks. I plan on switching to Diigo, but right now am still using Delicious. I find them very useful when working at home.



[|My Classroom Blog] My classroom blog is continuing to evolve. I am having fun creating it and hope to use it as a means of communication between my students, their parents/guardians to keep them up-to-date on current and upcoming events.

Fun with Wordle! I also enjoyed working with Tagxedo, but needed a lot more words to create a shape in Tagxedo so I chose to do this in Wordle. I plan on incorporating this in the PowerPoint my department uses to promote our classes.



Finally got my delicious bookmarks exported to the diigo site and have added some more that I found on the fcsd site as well as some new ones I am looking at.

Below is a screenshot of my edmodo account. I really think I will like using edmodo with my skills group especially. I am hoping to go completely paperless with that class next year and think this will really help!