Ning

Once again I have signed up on another site. I registered for Classroom 2.0. I listened to the recording of the live chat introduction for Classroom 2.0 and found it very informative. Be warned.........it is long!

I am not sure how often I will participate but I think it might be something I will check in on periodically. I am waiting for approval to join Classroom 2.0 but I did look through some of the groups and will probably join a couple of them like Elementary Classroom 2.0 and some of the early childhood groups. I think I might try following a discussion thread and try adding comments.

As with everything about web 2.0 it seems overwhelming. There is a big internet world out there full of tools and resources. I think I will keep an open mind but start small with just a few of them and practice using them before I move onto other things.

Week 8/Thing #19

I was just looking at the site with Top 100 tools for Web 2.0 and I was inundated with screens but they were Internet Explorer and I was in AOL. They just kept coming and coming. There was nothing I could do but close the AOL browser down. I am not sure what happened but I am not going there again.

Week 8/Thing #20

Just finishing up the last of week 8 and then will review all the "Things". I also want to try to figure out how to send videos in emails. I used the flip camera to video the students as they did his/her presentation as a summative assessment for the last planner. I think the files may be too big but there is a converter I need to download that might help. If not I may have to go to plan B and put them a CD as an end of the year gift for each student as well as the photos that I took of him/her with his/her projects, etc.

Google Docs

Success! I emailed the survey to myself and it worked. I am really surprised how long this took to go through the steps. I only wish I had read the instructions that Michael wrote first!!!!! Lesson learned.

Thank you

After much frustration I decided to do a search on the Handouts and Respository page. I found the instructions for the forms to send out a survey. Thank you Michael. The next thing is to actually do it.

Google Docs Form

I thought Google Docs was a great idea until I sat down and tried to create a form. I am the math coach for my building and I thought it would be a fabulouse idea to send out a form to gather information and get feedback. I have been working on this thing for almost 2 hours!!!!!!!! I did create one but lost it somewhere before I had finished all the questions and I could only get to the response spreadsheet. It then magically appeared - not sure how. I then wasn't sure how to send it out to everyone................something I still haven't figured out! I am a little frustrated now but persevering!

Google Docs

I have been wanting to try to create a survey to send out to the teachers in my building to gather some data. This is the time I wish I had paid more attention in class!!!!!!! I think this is going to take longer than I thought it would.

Week 8/Thing #20

I went back to Mango.com and was able to try a couple of things but not a whole sample lesson as described on the site. I also completed a survey. I was disappointed.

Week 8/Thing #20

I was unsuccessful with the Mango site so I tried the docstoc site and I clicked on the Education link. I am the math coach for my building and some articles were listed that were connected to math. I read through them and they were fascinating. I would never have discovered them if I had not checked out this site. I will be using the site again.

Week 8/Thing #20

I am finally on the last "Thing". I went to the Web 2.0 award winners first. I thought the Mango site was interesting because I hav ESL students in my classroom. I am really bad at learning languages and I have tried the Rosetta stone products (from the library - can't afford to buy them!) and have been unsucessful. I was excited about the Mango site and tried to load a sample lesson but it took forever and I wasn't able to do it. I was disappointed. I will try again later because sometimes by router doesn't work well especially if my son is playing XBox!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year, everyone!

I have 10 hours left of the online portion of the web 2.0 class so I have a lot to do. I will finish week 8 and then go back through the things we had to do because I am a bit fuzzy about most of them and I think it is a good idea to refresh my memory.

One thing I do know is that I love Google Earth! I was talking to my son about it and he wondered why it took me so long to discover it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He uses it when he has to go somewhere new and he looks at the photos at street level of the place he is going to and he has an idea before he leaves what the landmarks are and what the place actually looks like! Brillant idea!