Janice’s Notes

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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There are so many valuable tools out there to help my students and me as well.  I took a peak at each of the 13 tools available.  I will defiinitely be going back to use several of them.  The one a explored the most was Quizlet.  I teach social studies and am always looking for [...]

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Wow, no traffic, no commute time, no confusion about the place, time, or cost!  This was the easiest conference I ever attended.  And it was helpful!  I “attended” Anne Davis’s “Learn to Blog!  Blog to Learn” conference.  She made some good points about why we should use this tool, and then followed up with some [...]

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Photography is one of my favorite hobbies.  I am definitely an amateur and have much to learn, but I love it!  So I was very excited to learn about Flickr.  I now want to continue learning ways to use it in my classroom on a regular basis as well as how to use it to [...]

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New methods of teaching and collaborating bring new guidelines and responsibilities for teachers and students as they share their works.  I have not noticed the CC symbol before, but I will be paying close attention to it from now on.  With so much being shared on the web, we do need to be cautious about [...]

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Wikis look really exciting for helping my students collaborate on a variety of projects!  I first checked out Teachers First-Wiki Walk-Through and found so many ideas.  I will definitely be going back to that repeatedly as I use wikis with my students. 
I then explored 5 different wikis and found something helpful in each of them.  [...]

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Yes, I have subscribed to yet another great tool and have started reading other blogs.  Wow, there is a lot out there, isn’t there?!  I found some good edublogs to help me think about how and why I should use new technological tools.  I look forward to learning more from 2 blogs called Always Learning and [...]

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So, I now have a google reader account and am receiving lots of great information from the 5 feeds I set up.  There were 3 links that I already scanned and starred since I could see great ways I can use them in my classroom.  I can also already see the benefit of having the [...]

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