Photo Story

This week I downloaded photo story on to my computer. I really liked the way that it worked. It was very simple but also lots of fun. I made a short video of pictures of son. I put it on my personal blog and everyone has commented on how well they liked it. I also saw that you could make thank you cards and put them on a DVD and give them to people as your thank you card. It would be very useful in the classroom because it is so easy that the kids could make their own projects. I think that it would be fun to have the kids use photo story to make projects to their moms and dads on fathers day and mothers day. They can record their own little cards with their personilized messages on them. It would be a fun thing for the students to be able to utilize.

Google Sites

This week I learned about google sites. It was really fun to learn how to create a website. I think this tool would be very useful in my classroom. I could design a classroom website for my students and parents to look at. I could put Pictures of projects that we are doing. Or to list homework that the students need to complete and any up coming assignments. That would allow the parents to know what is going on as well as the studenst. I think that it would also be fun to have the students create there own webpages. Then have the students share their webpages. We could have a different student share their page each day.

Google Docs

This week I learned about google docs. I think that this is going to be a very useful tool to have while going through school. I think it will be useful in dong group projects. The reason being is that everybody has different schedules and different lives that it is sometimes hard for everyone to get together at the same time. However with google docs we will be able to work on the assignment when we have free time. I also think it is a lot easier than trying to e-mail the paper your working on as a group back and forth to each other. It gets confusing when you have four different people working on your paper and then you get your e-mail back and they all changed differnt things. I think doing a Wikki will elimante a lot of this stress that is not needed. I think that I will use this tool for a long time to come!

Google/ Blogger

Today we learned how to use blogger and google. They both seem like they will be fun to learn how to use more and can be very useful tools. In the classroom I could use blogger to create a blog for the students and the parents to read. I could write things that we did in the class each day so that if the parents ever wonder what their child is doing all day in school all they have to do is look at the blog. I would also be able to post events and projects that will be coming up. Google mail seems like it would be very useful. It has alot of tools that seem to be pretty neat. I don't know a whole lot about google yet but I will play with it and see what I can figure out. It will be fun to learn new things and see how I can use them in my classroom.