Thing 10 Screencasts

After doing some research on screencasts, I think this is a tool that I can really use. The example on screen-o-matic.com and some comments posted there really got me excited about this. The comments suggested using screencasts to give instructions on everything from using their calculators to finding area and perimeter. I think my kids would love making their own screencasts to teach a lesson. This might be a great way to assess these Common Core Standards coming our way. I'm wondering about using my Starboard with this to supplement our geometry and algebra lessons.

Thing 9 Embedding Videos

Mashups

The whole idea of mashups isn't crystal clear to me yet. I researched to topic and found cool results, even some award winning examples. I'm pretty sure that a mashup is a webpage that combines the best aspects of various sources and mashes them together to create a new service. Of the award winners, my favorite was a page called Triplify. I used it to search my family's favorite vacation spot. The results came from Bing, Yahoo, and Google. So, all at once I could see the results from all search engines. Another one, more useful for the classroom, QuillPill allows you to write and post a story up to 140 characters. I would love to know how other use this in the classroom.

Thing 7 Flickr

I got tons of ideas from flickr. I can't wait to try some of these out! Here are some examples: images for writing prompts, digital storytelling, virtual field trips, illustrating poetry, visual documentation of projects, artwork, and special events.

Thing 6 Ning

Ning is a site that connects us with others that share common interests. How handy to have a site that helps me find other 6th grade math teachers. I thought of it as facebook for work related issues.

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Thing 9 Movie Clips