Digital Citizenship; It is really important to teach our students to be a good digital citizenship, just like we teach them to follow the rules in school there are rules by the time of using technology. The very most important thing to teach to our students, I believe is Internet Safety. I never really thought it this way. I'm always trying to teach my students about the importance of what a person is completetly, and I talk to them about the values and introduce as many possible values I can think of and every day we discussed about them and we apply them during the school year.
Thanks to Technology individuals are capable of use this for many reasons like to get educated, employment, entertainment or simple social communications with others. This has created a society of digital citizens, these digital citizens like in any other society need to learn the right way of using Technology where they need to learn rights and laws. Most of our students are very confortable when it comes to use technology, but the concern here is, are they using technology properly? are they being good digital citizenships? It's pretty much like teaching them the right way of using technology. They are roles and responsabilities when it comes the usage of technology. It is very important to teach our students those values, so they can get only benefits from technology.
Students need to learn how to manage informations from the web, they need to learn how to recognize a good source and not believe in everything they see on the web.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tool #10
Exploring Mobile Technology and Apps. The I-touch devices are very easy and friendly to use. Unfortunately, the only time I had a chance to use one was at the mall. Hopefully, we all get to use them and expose to our students of the new technology. The apps are applications or little programs that you can get on you device and use them by simple touching the screen. They are apps where you can have books to read and then answer questions about what you read. They just are so many applications or programs in it that the only way to really learn from it, it's by owning the i-touch device. The apps can be designed or costumize them on your screen and the great thing about almost all the apps is that they are free.
Maybe in the future, the i-touches is what the students will be using to make notes, or to read in the classroom instead of taking out a book or a notebook. Who knows?
Maybe in the future, the i-touches is what the students will be using to make notes, or to read in the classroom instead of taking out a book or a notebook. Who knows?
Tool #9
Sharing information through Jing and Skype, is a great tool that our students can start learning to use, probably by the end of the school year at 1st grade. Once the students learn how to navigate throught the internet and learn how they can obtain information and images is important that they learn how to share the informations and images.
Skype is great program where students can learn how to chat and how to make a phone call through the computer at any country of the world. I personally use this program to communicate with my mom. She can see me with no problem and communicate, is great! You probably heard about the new iphone 4 which has the skype program included in it and people can communicate each other using that program without going over the minutes. I remember in the past how people talked about how in the future you were going to be able to see the person when communicating with them over the phone. I guess the future is now! love Skype!
Jing is a great website to share information with other people. Jing has the same tools we all have at the activ-board, you can take videos of what your doing in the computer if you want to explain how to do something or you can share any image your watching in the computer with someone just by cropping the image and copying the link with whoever you want to share. I love the fact that any video you create a Jing can be upload at youtube withou the need of transforming a video to mp3.
Excellent new Tool!
Skype is great program where students can learn how to chat and how to make a phone call through the computer at any country of the world. I personally use this program to communicate with my mom. She can see me with no problem and communicate, is great! You probably heard about the new iphone 4 which has the skype program included in it and people can communicate each other using that program without going over the minutes. I remember in the past how people talked about how in the future you were going to be able to see the person when communicating with them over the phone. I guess the future is now! love Skype!
Jing is a great website to share information with other people. Jing has the same tools we all have at the activ-board, you can take videos of what your doing in the computer if you want to explain how to do something or you can share any image your watching in the computer with someone just by cropping the image and copying the link with whoever you want to share. I love the fact that any video you create a Jing can be upload at youtube withou the need of transforming a video to mp3.
Excellent new Tool!
Tool # 8
Video Resourcing is one of the best tools I like, they are many examples on how teacher can explain new subjects to the students. And if you decide to show a video to your students is fun and at they same time the students get to learn new subjects.
The videos that I mostly use are from Brainpop Jr., these videos covered many important subjects that kinder and first graders need. If your students learn how to use these videos they can be assess by themselves by taking the the "easy quiz" or "hard quiz" after watching a video. I highly recommend it.
The videos that I mostly use are from Brainpop Jr., these videos covered many important subjects that kinder and first graders need. If your students learn how to use these videos they can be assess by themselves by taking the the "easy quiz" or "hard quiz" after watching a video. I highly recommend it.
This video is about patterns, students that already know what is a pattern can learn different ways to do patterns and if you have a student that has no idea what is pattern, this video is a great introduction to understand what a pattern is. You can find this video at Video Streaming from our portal.
Yeaaaaaaah! the video upload, after 10 minutes but it did!
This other video is great to start telling to your students the important of being healthy and clean without being disrespectful, This video shows to your students the importance of brushing their teeths and they show techniques on how to do it properly.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Tool #7
In first grade our major concern is to teach our students to read, every single day first grade teacher are thinking what activities to do to improve our students fluency and comprehension. And the Digital Storytelling can be a good tool to motivate your students to read. I'm thinking that is going to be a great idea to have some of my students that already know how to read and that are good with fluency and comprehension to have them do digital stories.
Digital storytelling can really motivate your students because it relates to their personal experiences or interest. Enhaces their writing since their audence is not only their teacher. And most important they see how learning experiences can be share outside their classroom.
Remember Digital storytelling is a simple Digital explanation. So we (the teacher) can create an explanation to our students to learn, then we can show that video over and over during time. I like that "IDEA".
Ok, I can't upload the video uuuuggggghhhhhh! good bye!
Digital storytelling can really motivate your students because it relates to their personal experiences or interest. Enhaces their writing since their audence is not only their teacher. And most important they see how learning experiences can be share outside their classroom.
Remember Digital storytelling is a simple Digital explanation. So we (the teacher) can create an explanation to our students to learn, then we can show that video over and over during time. I like that "IDEA".
Ok, I can't upload the video uuuuggggghhhhhh! good bye!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Tool #6
More than half way to finish my tool box huh? exciting! I am really amazed of all the tools out there for us. And whay I most enjoying is all of the answers of my followers, thank you so much! love you all.
Ok, so Tool #6 talks about how a group of people can work on a project or idea together without being in the same room, or at the same time. It's a project where everybody can include or interchange ideas for it. In first grade I'm not really sure how my students can do something yet in it. But I wouldn't mind exposing them to it and show them how it works and how other students from upper grades are using it.
Ok, so Tool #6 talks about how a group of people can work on a project or idea together without being in the same room, or at the same time. It's a project where everybody can include or interchange ideas for it. In first grade I'm not really sure how my students can do something yet in it. But I wouldn't mind exposing them to it and show them how it works and how other students from upper grades are using it.
Tool #5
Bookmarking at delicious is very interesting and helpful. I have a couple of friends that teach in El Paso, San Antonio, and Dallas and I've tried in the past to share some of my favorite web sites from where I get ideas of activities and is quite difficult to share them through e-mail or over the phone, by using delicious can save us a lot of time and anyone can come and see your bookmarking list and use what you have found in the past, without being interrupt. That is awesome!
I also wanted to comment about Google Wave, does anyone knows about it, I heard it was very good but I still don't know exactly how it works. There is a video that is one hour long explaining all the details of it, there's anyone reading this that knows about Google Wave?
Another question, what is the best way to backup all the information in your computer? just with a usb? or cd's?
ok here are my bookmarks
http://www.pdictionary.com/english/stinky_spelling.php
http://www.softschools.com/math/worksheets/subtraction_worksheets.jsp
I also wanted to comment about Google Wave, does anyone knows about it, I heard it was very good but I still don't know exactly how it works. There is a video that is one hour long explaining all the details of it, there's anyone reading this that knows about Google Wave?
Another question, what is the best way to backup all the information in your computer? just with a usb? or cd's?
ok here are my bookmarks
http://www.pdictionary.com/english/stinky_spelling.php
http://www.softschools.com/math/worksheets/subtraction_worksheets.jsp
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