1. Google Reader
- This program allows you to search blogs and other interent sources for certain topics. Also, google reader is an RSS which means the things on it can be easily shared with other people.
2. Delicious
- This program is a program that allows you to see all of the websites/blogs that are bookmarked by other educators. You can also choose to bookmark the websites you see to add to your list. It would be very helpful for a teacher to have every resource he/she needs right at his/hers finger tips.
3. Skype
- This program allows someone to call someone else over the internet. This could be useful if a teacher was doing a unit on a specific profession, and they could call someone who does that job and have them talk to the kids about their job.
4. Twitter
- This is a blogging and social networking system. This program allows you to see other peoples updates and read them as soon as they are updated. It is a good way to share the latest information on a particular topic.
5. Ning
- Ning does something along the lines of Twitter. Only this program allows you to create your own social network. A teacher could make one for his/her class that only people in the class could access.
6. EDU Blogs
- These are blogs that are education based. A teacher could go on and read these and gain a lot of neat information to use in their classroom.
7. Jing
- This is a program that allows you to take a screen shot or make a film of a screen shot where you can demonstrate instructions by showing someone. The program also gives you a link so that you can send that movie demonstration to anyone anywhere.
8. Scratch
- This is a program that allows children to create their own visual stories. These stories can also be easily shared on the web if they choose to do so.
9. Flickr
- This is an image sharing network. A teacher can put up pictures of things going on in the classroom and only people such as parents who are in the network can see them. This is a good way to get parents involved in what is going on in the classroom.
10. Flickrstorm
- This is a sharing network that has pictures on it with extended copyrights. The pictures on this network can be used for projects that kids due without having to worry about citing things.
2 comments:
It looks like you learned a lot of useful information about programs for the classroom. I like how you mentioned how you would use them, and that some would benefit you, the teacher, as well as your students. After reading your response I feel like we learned about the same things even though we went to different sessions, which is good. *E.H.
Kristin - great list of things you learned in one day! Wow, you saw some of the cool new tools and new ways to use older tools. It is great to hear you think about how and why you'll use them. In the future it would be great to see hyperlinks to the resources so if someone comes across your page they too can learn more. Jo
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