I checked out a few of these websites at home:
http://www.novelgames.com/
Novel games were really fun and were more like games you play on a game system. It isn't very educational, but it is fun and works out your brain.
http://www.kidsspell.com/
Kids spell is a great treat for kids who need to work on their spelling but they don't find it interesting writing one word a thousand times in order to get it to stick in their head. The solution: let them try to help a dinosaur eat all the right letters or have them pop the balloons that have misspelled words while trying to keep the ones that are correctly spelled afloat.
http://www.learn-with-math-games.com/index.html
I loved this website because it really directed me towards some age appropriate math games that are sure to help out as the kids enjoy learning.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Puzzle maker and word search maker
After looking over these various sites, I know I am going to come back and use them in my future classroom! They are so simple to use and can be used for vocab words, spelling words, math and science terms and even some history questions. These worksheets will definitely be useful in class and for every subject!
Scruffy Owl Elementary Newsletter
http://letterpop.com/newsletters/?id=148977-142ebd&print=1
I couldn't get my newsletter into a PDF file, so I've decided to paste a link to it. Hope you like it!
I really like the name of my fake school...kind of makes me wish there was a school named that.
I couldn't get my newsletter into a PDF file, so I've decided to paste a link to it. Hope you like it!
I really like the name of my fake school...kind of makes me wish there was a school named that.
Voice Thread
http://voicethread.com/share/940720/
I wasn't able to embed voicethread in my blog for some reason (it kept saying login failed), so I am just going to put the URL in here and hopefully everyone is still able to see it and comment on it.
I wasn't able to embed voicethread in my blog for some reason (it kept saying login failed), so I am just going to put the URL in here and hopefully everyone is still able to see it and comment on it.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Google Earth Tour!
Professional PLN's
Teacherlingo.com
linkedin.com
classroom 2.0
What is the advantage of belonging to one of these online groups?
I looked at teacherlingo.com and found it quite useful. I have been helping out in a Spanish classroom and was wondering what other Spanish teachers have been doing to excite their students. It's great to hear about their experiences and to look around at other teachers and how they are dealing with the stresses of being a teacher as well. I found the blog of a teacher that blogged about the stresses of being a first time teacher and the readings she found that talked about how to handle that situation. It was a great resource that I'm sure to use in the future. Basically, an advantage to belonging to one of these online groups is being able to communicate your experiences as a teacher and help others that are navigating through their first year or just going through a tough time with behavior management or other issues. I know most people who are not already in a classroom will find this unrelateable, but I love it!
Do you think these online groups can help you get a job?
Maybe. I'm not very sure if you can get a job through these websites. I guess it depends on the type of person you are. I love meeting face to face with people, but sending resumes and online connections are useful these days.
linkedin.com
classroom 2.0
What is the advantage of belonging to one of these online groups?
I looked at teacherlingo.com and found it quite useful. I have been helping out in a Spanish classroom and was wondering what other Spanish teachers have been doing to excite their students. It's great to hear about their experiences and to look around at other teachers and how they are dealing with the stresses of being a teacher as well. I found the blog of a teacher that blogged about the stresses of being a first time teacher and the readings she found that talked about how to handle that situation. It was a great resource that I'm sure to use in the future. Basically, an advantage to belonging to one of these online groups is being able to communicate your experiences as a teacher and help others that are navigating through their first year or just going through a tough time with behavior management or other issues. I know most people who are not already in a classroom will find this unrelateable, but I love it!
Do you think these online groups can help you get a job?
Maybe. I'm not very sure if you can get a job through these websites. I guess it depends on the type of person you are. I love meeting face to face with people, but sending resumes and online connections are useful these days.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Spelling City
I like spelling city, but not as much as quizlet because it seems a bit smaller with a lot smaller games. I would give this website as homework for kids to use or just as a short activity to fill time. Otherwise, I liked it.
Quizlet-Common Spanish Phrases
Common Spanish Phrases
This website makes studying very fun and interesting. You just forget that you are studying and you just fall into playing these games that make you want to remember the terms you are learning. I'm sure students in 4th to 6th grade would love to use this (not to mention middle schoolers, high schoolers and college students too!).
This website makes studying very fun and interesting. You just forget that you are studying and you just fall into playing these games that make you want to remember the terms you are learning. I'm sure students in 4th to 6th grade would love to use this (not to mention middle schoolers, high schoolers and college students too!).
Webquests
Learning About Poetry! Name:____________________
Date:_____________________
Subject: Language
Professor: Brandy Aguilar
Introduction: In order to write a poem, you can dive into the world of words and create a raw, free form poem. Or, you can learn more about the origins of poems from around the world! You can even collect poems from the masters or poems from people online!
Task: You should be able to find the answers to all these questions: What is a free style poem? What is a haiku? What is iambic pantameter? Name a famous poet and copy and paste one poem from them that you like. What other styles of poems are there?
Process: Go online and use google.com to find all of your answers. Do not use wikipedia and be able to give references of all the information you collect. Not to mention that all the information that you gather must be written in your own words!
Resources: Use these websites to start and branch out into other websites that is helpful for the topic.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/
Evaluation: The reason we did this activity was for you to learn all about poetry without me standing in front of you all day telling you all the definitions.
Conclusion: Good job! Now I encourage you to use the knowledge you collected in order to make your poems!
I think webquests are a fun way to engage the kids and have them do research on their own without you having to spoon feed every little detail. I love it because of course they will have to do some hunting online which will keep them busy for a while. Although I feel that these kids will just copy off of each other if it is done often. But a good way to change things up at least.
Date:_____________________
Subject: Language
Professor: Brandy Aguilar
Introduction: In order to write a poem, you can dive into the world of words and create a raw, free form poem. Or, you can learn more about the origins of poems from around the world! You can even collect poems from the masters or poems from people online!
Task: You should be able to find the answers to all these questions: What is a free style poem? What is a haiku? What is iambic pantameter? Name a famous poet and copy and paste one poem from them that you like. What other styles of poems are there?
Process: Go online and use google.com to find all of your answers. Do not use wikipedia and be able to give references of all the information you collect. Not to mention that all the information that you gather must be written in your own words!
Resources: Use these websites to start and branch out into other websites that is helpful for the topic.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/
Evaluation: The reason we did this activity was for you to learn all about poetry without me standing in front of you all day telling you all the definitions.
Conclusion: Good job! Now I encourage you to use the knowledge you collected in order to make your poems!
I think webquests are a fun way to engage the kids and have them do research on their own without you having to spoon feed every little detail. I love it because of course they will have to do some hunting online which will keep them busy for a while. Although I feel that these kids will just copy off of each other if it is done often. But a good way to change things up at least.
Book Mark Review
I liked all of the websites! They are very useful for keeping the websites you love or even cut out and keep the items from webpages. I don't know how many times I wanted to get some stuff from a certain page, and I didn't have my laptop with my bookmarks, so I couldn't share anything. Using these websites, you can find them in your email (which you can access on any computer). I loved bonzobox (because it is a lot like readfresh). I like ibrii because you can cut and paste stuff to keep. And who doesn't like posterous.com? Emailing things to yourself to use later and at any computer? Of course! http://posterous.com/main is an interesting to save stuff. You email things to yourself.
I was interested in polyvore.com for a while (it's a website that makes outfits for a certain theme). It's a guilty pleasure that I haven't used in a while. But ibrii really reminds me of that.
I was interested in polyvore.com for a while (it's a website that makes outfits for a certain theme). It's a guilty pleasure that I haven't used in a while. But ibrii really reminds me of that.
Read Fresh
Search Engine Wordle
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Websites that may help with Differentiation in the Classroom
I looked at the machine collage and free rice website. These are fun activities that I know kids would be happy to browse through. I like free rice because they are actually learning things relevant to what they are learning and they are giving free rice to people who really need it. Machine collage is really fun just to mess around with and create a wonderful work of art!
These activities would be wonderful to incorporate in the classroom to keep the kids busy. They would all get involved and be on task at least.
These activities would be wonderful to incorporate in the classroom to keep the kids busy. They would all get involved and be on task at least.
Scriblink-Online Whiteboard-Differentiated Classroom
I loved playing with this website and messing around with the whiteboard stuff. I looked at Jotspot.com and liked it. It wasn't my favorite, but it looked like a simple and quick white board app.
Also, I've been having problems with Thinklinr.com. It keeps telling me to download google chrome, so I won't do it. I will talk about what a differentiated classroom looks like. A differentiated classroom provides different avenues to acquiring content, making sense of ideas and developing products. It's "shaking up" what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they learn.
Also, I've been having problems with Thinklinr.com. It keeps telling me to download google chrome, so I won't do it. I will talk about what a differentiated classroom looks like. A differentiated classroom provides different avenues to acquiring content, making sense of ideas and developing products. It's "shaking up" what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they learn.
Lesson Plan Creation!
I absolutely enjoyed making a lesson plan, but as I may have mentioned somewhere before, I am a perfectionist and managed to make a lesson plan that will probably not take that long to do but took over 3 hours to make.
I made a lesson plan geared towards K-1st grade and it was just an adding and subtracting interactive board. The kids have to add or subtract the animals that are in the boxes. It's fairly easy to do and has all the kids on their toes and yelling out the answers. Even as I was doing this, I thought of how I could produce a lesson plan for the kids in the Spanish classroom I work in. Spanish just seems to be perfect for being taught on the Smart board.
It was really enjoyable even though I had not made all three lesson plans (which I'm sorry I never got to, but as you may already know, I am a college student being crushed under many 2 hour long classes and homework).
I made a lesson plan geared towards K-1st grade and it was just an adding and subtracting interactive board. The kids have to add or subtract the animals that are in the boxes. It's fairly easy to do and has all the kids on their toes and yelling out the answers. Even as I was doing this, I thought of how I could produce a lesson plan for the kids in the Spanish classroom I work in. Spanish just seems to be perfect for being taught on the Smart board.
It was really enjoyable even though I had not made all three lesson plans (which I'm sorry I never got to, but as you may already know, I am a college student being crushed under many 2 hour long classes and homework).
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