THING 7 Video Resources

I listened to the codes of best practices video and just learned that the kids will be confused about what should be copyrighted or not. Having the book would be a good idea.

I looked at all of the video sources shown and learned that there was more out there than I was aware of. They were all good and I plan on sharing several of them with my staff.

Hulu was the first one I saw and I found the section on Farah Fawcett. While not so educational, I was interested because I went to high school with her. I was so sad that she died and I have been keeping up with all of the news items on her.

PBS video is a great site. I looked into several of the history sites and I liked how you could filter so that you could get just where you wanted to go. I looked at some cold war videos.

THING 6 I phone and I touch

I have used my friend's I phone to play with some of the apps. It was fun to use and I would like to have the same phone from Verizon when I am able to update my phone in November. I thin teachers would rather the kids have I touches than allow I phones because of the trouble they might have with students wanting to text their friends all of the time while in class. Someone called the I touch mobile learning which is how the world is moving today. We cannot be without our mobile devices. Still the kids will be able to benefit from using an I touch. I know that the library will be getting several for use next year and I will be interested in seeing how well they do. I know that there will be many uses for them such as the calculator, using google, brainteasers, on line lessons, a calendar, gps, taking notes, and being able to work together from anywhere.

Thing 5 Facebook and Twitter

I have 2 sons and a daughter-in-law who all have a facebook account. I have watched them use it for years. Every time I go to my son's house, he lets me get on his account and catch up on all of his old friends. I love doing this as I have not seem any of these people since my boys were in high school. Also. one of my teachers created a facebook project this past year and I worked with her on this project on people in history. The kids had to pick a person that they wanted to research and then create a facebook page for that person. Then they could invite other people that were created by their classmates. it was a huge success as the kids loved doing it.

Twitter is interesting. I have never used it, but I know that thousands of kids are using it every day. This generation is becomming used to keeping up with their friends not much by phone but with twitter or by texting. They want instant information. Each twitter can only use 140 characters, so it has to be quick. I am not so sure how to use this in the classroom, but I look forward to hearing what other people have to say about it.

Thing 4 You tube

This is a great way to share videos. I learned that you tube was started in 2005 and 70 million videos were viewed daily. The mega giant, google, owns it.

Last year my speech teacher wanted to use some academy award acceptance speeches in her classroom. We played around uploading the speeches into zamzar so that they could be viewed in our school district. It worked great and the kids enjoyed it.

I can see how it could be used by kids that want to use videos that they make as a project. The kids watch you tube every day and are very familiar with how to use it. They would love to use this application with various projects.

Thing 3-- Like Skype--free, zip,zero, nada

I have known about skype for awhile. We researched it because some friends of ours take groups of people to Israel every year and they were complaining about the high cost of calling over there to talk to their guide. My husband showed them how to use it.

The best thing about it is it is FREE. My son and his wife live in Kentucky and we are going to have a first grandbaby in July, so the web cam feature is a must for us to be able to keep up with the baby every day.

I think it would be agreat idea for student who are out of school for a long period to be able to join their class using skype. Also classes from all over the world would be able to communicate with each other.

I looke at a few of the other services and found the EVA phone but it limits the use to 5 minutes per call. Gizmo is a free service that can create a conference room but you would have to have the connecting phone number handy.

Thing 2 Word play, and voki

I really liked this "thing" and the new 2.0 items that I explored.
Wordle and word shift were similar because you could point out the most prominate words in a speech or text. It is a fun way to play with text and use with word relationships. I practiced with putting in words that had to deal with the French Revolution. These words could be used projected with an LCD to introduce a unit.

A glog would be a wonderful way to change the way a poster can be made for a project. I think the kids would like this idea much better than the old traditional poster---and it was fun to do.

I made a voki and I attempted to add it to my blog. We will see if it actually worked. It didnt work. I will try again later.

I went to Bookr and made 2 books. I was alittle frustrated with this program because of the picture choices that I had and I thought it was a little hard to use. The pictures scrolled by so fast and they were hard to see unless you added them to the book. Then I attempted to add them to my blog but was unsuccessful.

Thing 1---registration for the beach

I am all registered for this second go around to learn new techniques that will help challenge the 21st century student. As librarians we must be on the cutting edge ready to teach not only our students, but also the teachers on the new ideas that can be used in the classroom.

I liked the viedo that showed how the students of today can take charge of their learning by using connectivism and build a network to use for learning. Kids of today are so used to computers that they learn best when they can use that computer. I loved the idea of searching for articles and blogs on the topics that they are researching. Then the student can create his own blog on what he has learned so he can get comments from others. I especially loved the idea that they can download lectures from college professors and get information from the best teachers in the world.

I liked the words to describe the student's teacher; words like modeler, learning conceirge, change agent, and my favorite,learning architect. I think the librarian can play a major role in this learning process by showing the student where to find all of the information he is needing. The teacher and the librarian are a team that can plan and then execute the learning problem that will be presented.