Tool #5

http://hmns.org/
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/typesofdinosaurs/tp/Five-Biggest-Dinosaurs.htm

I looked and joined delicious and Diigo and I liked Diigo better not that I will not use them both but I found Diigo a little easier to follow. I found two wesites that I tagged that I know my students would enjoy. I can see how we can research things that interest us and tag it to archive it for future reference. A team can collaborate to add to each others tags and ideas to increase our files to teach and get organized so much better.

Tool #4

I really like the possibilities of using the Google Docs as a sharing of documents, ideas, schedules and so many more things to be able to work together and get organized as a group.
The Google reader is great! I can see where I could save articles or information I enjoy to read or would like to use to teach, share that information with my friends or colleagues, and I can do all this from any computer, anywhere and anytime.

Tool #3

I think that the Wordle and the Spell Flckr is a great tool for the kindergarteners to use. I used the students names to make my Wordle and the students would enjoy seeing this at the beginning of the year with their name and then make one for different content are areas with important vocabulary that would generate as we study. The Spell Flckr is good too for spelling their names too.

Tool #2

I think it is a great opportunity for different people in different places can come together and share ideas, communicate, information and network. It is a great independent function to seek different things and ideas of interest to all people. We have to learn to create our own learning space to be able navigate and teach our students to do so. It is a more complex world and we need to help the student to understand the potential and the changes of that world so that they can become part of it.

What stood out to me is the fact that one should only comment on things that we care about; that are meaningful to us or if we want to contribute to a discussion. We should be kind, courteous and open to the comments that are posted, made or to the questions posted on our blogs. I posted a comment to the following:

RGEdavisi
Mimi the Blogger
Kinder Technology
It's Tool Time!
rge technology

Tool #1

I did not know how hard it would be to get started with the Tools, to find the time and to have the technology to cooperate was not easy but I finally got started. I knew about how the blogs are used as a teaching tool from different conferences that I have attended, and how the teachers are utilizing them with their students for lessons and homework. My son too has been creating and sending me Voki messages, but I never knew how to make my own and I can see how the students would like to learn how to make one and use it to communicate with each other and with others. It is always good to know how to create and to know how things come together and be able to see the whole picture. I can see how we can become more connected to the community and the world. In order to move to the 21st century, I can see how we would need to know how it all works and how we are all interconnected.