What was new to you?
I was excited about GoSoapBox.com. That is a new tool to me and seems so versatile that I am really interested in making that work for my classes. I also appreciated the opportunity to explore Google Docs. Though I knew of them, and had dabbled a little bit, I didn't really have a chance before to delve into them and now that we are doing so for our training I am hoping to use it often!
How can you use some of the tools from today with your students?
I plan to use GoSoapBox.com to do some quizzing and polling as we go through our lessons. I also would like to use Google Docs to do more collaboration with the student work. There are always absences when working together over the course of a few days and I see this as a great way to keep the kids working even when their partner is missing! No more excuses! I really look forward to exploring all that Gaggle will bring to the table for us as well!
What lesson are you thinking about using this week as you infuse technology?
I'm still really trying to decide what lesson I'm going to focus on. I had originally thought to make one of the infused lessons from this past semester that wasn't as much as I wanted it to be bigger and better but now I am really thinking that I'd like to start fresh and make a whole new lesson out of it. I am leaning toward either our unit on identifying love/affection in Champions or structures of communities for Community Works.
Stacey, I am so excited that our students will have access to Google applications next year! There are so many different Google apps that the students can use. i will be in the learning process as well with these and will be excited to see how they work with the students.
ReplyDeleteI was once quite Google saavy, but since I moved schools I have not kept up like I wish I would have. I am excited to get back into all they have to offer and now won't feel like I'm not focusing enough on work stuff if I'm checking out tools for my kids to use too!
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