11 tools reflection

1. What are your favorite tools you now have in your personal technology toolbox?
I liked digital story telling and video resources because they are visual tools that are engaging and fun.
Briefly describe a particular activity that you will plan for your students using at least one of these new tools.
I plant to use photo story for reading and lots of video resources.
2. How have you transformed your thinking about the learning that will take place in your classroom?
Now I feel comfortable with technology, I don’t fear it anymore. I am happy to have completed this training because now I am more confident using the web and I feel I am well equippted with the tools the training gave me.
3. Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
I never thought that there where so many cool resources that I could use with my students.

Tool #11

What I want my students to undertstand about digital citizenship is:
To follow the rules the teacher will give them in how to use technology.
To understand that we can use a computer to learn as well as to play games.
To interact and collaborate with their peers and teachers when using technoogy.

I would teach digital citizenship by story telling, I would tell them stories with pictures that relate to them so they can understand the concept.

Tool #10

First I reviwed "flings", a free app featuring 10,000s of unique puzzles. Another app I saw was "hangman", a free app where students touch the letters in the phone to find the hidden word. My wow! moment with an app would deffinitely be when I download an app called "Shasam" . With this app I can hear a song that I don't know on the radio and Shasam will find the title, artist, album and all the information regarding the song.
My students love technology. When we go to the library they love using the itouch. They usually play a memory game where they flip two cards and make pairs.

Tool #9

I could use Screencast with my students by uploading activities and then showing and solving them together in the class.
Jink can be used with students when going to field trips to upload pictures and videos to share in the class.
Skype can be used with students that are not able to assist school due to their dissabilities. That way students won't miss any classroom events.
I use skype very often mostly to talk to my grandma in Chile and with my sister in Denmark =)

Tool #8

Videos are useful resources for students. I used hulu as my searching tool. The first video is about the seasons and the second is about the alphabet. Students need to see in different ways what we are teaching them. They also need to touch, hear, smell and taste what we are presenting to them. The more we use different ways to present what we are teaching, the better our students will engage and understand the concept. This is why showing them videos is an important part of their learning process. Also to student watching videos it's a fun way to learn =)

Tool # 7

To me photo story was the hardest tool I have used. If it wasn't for my brother that goes to high school I don't think I could have made it.
Once you learn how to use it, photo story can be very helpful in the classroom. I would use photo story to increase my sudents vocabulary, to make stories with beginning, middle and end, and to help them understand concepts such as holidays.
This time I used photo story to make a video about the clothes we use in winter when it's cold and clothes that we wear in summer when it's hot. The visual support provided by the pictures are extremly necessary when teaching Life Skills because our students are very vissual learners.

Tool #6

Now that we have our new classroom with a big kithen (yeeyyy!), my students and I could use a wiki to make a list with the ingredients necessary for what we will be cooking. We might also use a wiki with our new washer and drying mashine by making a list of tasks with the steps in washing clothes (checking the clothes that are clean and dirty, sorting clothes by color, loading the washer mashine, press the correct buttons to start washing, etc)
The wiki that gave me an idea was the one that talks about making a timeline. I thought I could use that tool with my students to analyze the books that we read (e.i., what happened first and last in the story etc).
For our team we could use a wiki to work with other teachers to create lesson plans and track students success.