Must share - Teacher Tube

On one of my previous posts I blogged about you tube and how I was impressed that were educational things I could use on there.  Our Professor commented and told me to check out teacher tube!!!! Go for it!!!!  Again, I am amazed at what is out there and why didn't anyone show us that years ago!!! Thanks Teach! I will definitely be using that!  My son is going to love it too because of some of the history sites they have. 

Last assignment

Ok so all I can think about is how I am going to use my virtual fieldtrip in my class.  That fieldtrip is actually going to take up 5 or 6 lessons because it has so much information from my curriculum in it.  I think for my final project  I am going to use one of my lesson plans and use a spot out of the virtual fieldtrip.... is that wrong??? How can it be...

virtual fieldtrip and forms

Since this is my first grad. class in about 10 years I loved thinking outside the box.... the microsoft office box. My partner was kind enough to choose a topic that I will use.  I am excited to use our virtual trip this year however it is in the spring when I cover rainforests :( so I will have to wait.  I have only used you tube for looking up songs or silly mindless things. I never thought to look at it for actual good information! Yippee.  I will definitely be looking there a lot more often!   I also loved the forms!! I am trying to figure out how to use those in my room. They are fun to make but better yet I love how easy they are at gathering information. Any ideas on how to use forms in the primary (second grade) grades?

Still found it exhausting

I still wish I was better at narrowing my searches online.  When I am looking for animals of the Amazon rainforest I did an advanced search that had to have Amazon rainforest animals together.. I still had to weed through so many non amazon sites or sites not truly related to animals of the Amazon rainforest.  I guess it just takes practice filtering out the bad ones... or it takes time to figure out what exactly to ask for...

Interesting web tool

When I was looking for websites for our virtual fieldtrip I was coming across several very nice school made websites made by the same tool here it is.
http://thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library

Here is an example for you of someone who used it.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111765/layers.html.

Virtual Fieldtrip!

Ok. I just keep adding and looking and adding and looking I need to move on to the next section of it but I keep thinking of other ideas!!! Since this activity worked well with elementary ed. we picked something that I teach...the rainforest... and went from there.  It is great but not when you are under a time limit :). I will definitely use this virtual fieldtrip this year.  Hopefully I will get my partner's son next year ( but I am going to share it with my fellow teachers so it doesn't really matter) so I can show it to him in class and tell him his mom and I put this together!!!

Prezi

http://www.prezi.com/ What a crazy fun site but also frustrating! Trying to get things into spaces. To stay in spaces.  I really like it though.  I found it very easy to take pictures from http://www.photobucket.com/ to prez.  We are going to use it as a way to introduce ourselves. I think it is a great tool for me to introduce myself to the students.  I also have a student of the week  where they tell about themselves and bring in things that help describe them. It would be fun to have the students do something similar and show it on the smartboard.