Janice’s Notes

This course has been wonderful!  I have learned so much about so many tools and am anxious to use them with my students.  I know I still have a lot to learn about the management of them, but I know that I have a huge community out there to help me along the way.  I [...]

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It is obvious from news reports, the teens in my youth group, and family members, that social networking is alive and well in the 21st century, especially with students.  Often the social networking sites get bad press because of reports of sexual predators or cyberbulling.  As I explored these tools to be used in an [...]

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I enjoyed reading the article called Need Ideas on Ultimate Intro Flipcharts in Adventures in Education Blogging.  Here Susan was sharing ideas on how to help her teachers who have new activeboards.  She knew that they would want to use them on Back to School Night, so she designed some flipcharts for them to use.  [...]

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Pageflakes has so many possibilities!  I can see it as a great way to communicate with my students, their parents, and/or other teachers.  With over 230,000 different flakes to add to you page, there are so many tools that my students and I can use.  I really had a lot of fun customizing my page [...]

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There are so many different kinds of documents that I use at school and at home. Google Docs is so much like what I have already played around with that it was easy to experiment with them. As always, a few things slowed me down, but I ended up learning a lot from my snags. [...]

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You Tube has been something I have checked out several times when friends would tell me about particular ones, but I had not spent much time searching it before.  There is a lot out there, isn’t there?  And some of it is very helpful and worthwhile.  However, a lot of it is inappropriate for my [...]

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Scary, Janice has hit the air waves!  That was pretty fun and easy and I am looking forward to podcasting with my students.  I know they would love it and it would make their writing, planning, and working together on a podcast project so real life and worthwhile. 
I would like to have my students record [...]

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This activity opened my eyes to new uses for iPods and podcasting.  I have seen the iPod craze around me, but have not caught up with it.  I viewed iPods as somewhat of a distraction.  Now I see that they can be a great learning tool for my students and me.
I did some exploring using [...]

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Wow!  Library Thing is a great tool.  I belong to a book club at church and I was thinking that this would be a great site to use to share reviews and find other good books for future book club lists.  It could also expand our book club to others who have read the same books.  And [...]

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I have had some experience with del.icio.us and was already very impressed with the possiblilities of sharing information about websites, etc. with so many others, especially other educators.  But I learned even more and added several sites to my delicious list. 
I added information about the Osage Indians and the Lewis and Clark Expedition to use in [...]

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