Tool #4

Google Doc is really awesome, the benefits from it are great, the fact that you can share a document with other poeple without sending the information or the document itself through e-mail is going to save a lot of time and memory. It would be awesome if our staff in school will really use this google tool. I see that, teachers can benefit from it if used. For instance, at the beginning we always send a letter to the parents about the rules and expectations of our first grade students. Now we can all share our thoughts in the document if we share it through google doc before sending it home.

It would be good to use google doc to contribute discussions, doubts, and ideas after faculty meetings.

Ok I'm going to create a google doc..... check it out later!

Tool #3

The Image I used on the top is from the wordle and this can be used with my students since they only need just a few words to make a wordle and they can write about their favorite words or a message to their parents or best friend.

Tool #3 is very fun, it’s about all the different webs that can help you create a video, pictures, words, like the ones you see on top, etc…. first thing am I doing when I came back to school is to update my laptop, is really slow or I’m very impatient. I also tried Big Huge Labs but I couldn't figure out how to draw the picture to my blog, so the box you see under this paragraph is from them.

The picture below I love because you can write a message or design your photos, I usually take pictures from my students and just print them and give them to them, now after they have their account in google I can write a positive message in their picture about how I feel about each one of them and send it through e-mail or maybe put all the pictures in google doc, which is the next tool. oh by the way this last picture was created at kid-friendly generator.

I really, really liked the tool #3 I will definitely be back to play more with all the options on this tool, love it :p

so what do you think? do you like my beautiful eyes? lol!

Tool #2

Ok, after going back and forth with the tools and a few blogs from different people I found that I need to post a new blog with each of the different 11 tools, so right now I’m in Tool #4 but I’m going to discuss about Tool #2 in this blog.

I honestly think that creating an online community with your students it’s a great advancement, but I really don’t think that first graders will get the real benefit of an online community, when they are barely learning how to read and write.

I took me time to create my own account of blogs and creating my avatar, and I really hope to have success helping my students creating their own account. Another disadvantage that I see, it’s that our student doesn’t have computers at home or parents don’t take to a facility where they will have access to a computer. So the only time that they will be learning about being in an online community it’s when they are in school.

Am I being negative? Or Am I being just realistic? Specially with first graders……