Tool #4

Google Docs is a very useful tool for teachers, especially when working within teams and with the students.  Google Docs can be accessed in many ways and from many locations so it is useful when working from home or when the students do work from locations other than school.  Teachers can access it not only from their school computers but from the provided iPads, netbooks or even from their phones when not at school.  Students can also access the documents in such ways.  Google Docs are also collaborative and can be manipulated and developed by many users which allows for communal and social learning.  It also allows me to track the work done by the students.

Tool #3

I like YouTube.com a lot because of the variety of videos available.  However, there can be some troubles frinding high quality videos since the website allows for personal posting from any user.  Discovery Education is also a great website for educational videos that are short, interesting and visually exiting.

Videos can be used in my classroom to illustrate different themes and vocabulary from my World Geography curriculum.  Below is a video from the BBC that I found on YouTube.com that illustrates the formation and migration of tectonic plates.

Another useful video for me would be the following which illustrates the social hierarchy of the Middle Ages and medieval society and could be used in my World History class.

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=0742FC72-811E-4F09-9941-A0467A7C9B95&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US


I have signed up for a Dropbox account.  Dropbox could be helpful for me when dealing with student make-up work. I could also use it to share resources with other teachers.

Tool #2

Online learning and teaching communities seem like an excellent recourse.  I am sure that I will access this type of community a lot in my educational career.  However, I am a bit apprehensive about sharing myself.  I am worried about my privacy and posting things that might be silly - as a first year teacher, I sometimes feel as though I have basic questions.  

I would like to use Diigo in the future. It looks like an awesome site that would have many useful resources such as the annotating tool.  This tool can help my students quickly access information without having to revisit previous posts.

First Experience

So far this has been frustrating.  Creating my Voki  the first time caused my entire Blogger to delete and so I had to start over.  Now, I am attempting to embed my Voki and am having trouble.  Called my iCoach and hopefully this will work...

My iCoach definitely helped and my Voki is up and running!