Thing #16

The LibraryThing has become a great organizational tool for me. I have put my read alouds for the classroom tagged in a group. But the most important aspect for me is to put books into groups to use when teaching certain strategies such as inferring, cause and effect and main idea. It is so nice to add books as I come across them and what area I can use them to teach with.

Thing #15

I already have a delicious bookmarking account. I have had a lot of trouble knowing how to treat my students who have dyslexic tendencies. There is a six month wait for these students to be tested and they are drowning. So I went to some bookmarking sites for teaching strategies to help me learn how to meet these students needs. With the bookmarking site I can easily go back and refer to these strategies when I need help.

Thing #7b

I was very interested in the blog http://davekurt.blogspot.com/2008/10/like-father-like-son.html because I have quite a few students in my classroom that are ADHD. These students are just like Nate in the article. I wish they could read this article and see how treating this students ADHD made him a successful student. Maybe I will link it to my newsletter.

Thing #14

I love the http://www.wordle.net/.
Again, this could be a great get to know you activity at the beginning of the year. I also thought you would be able to take a character from a story and use words writing character traits and make a product. Love this!
Socially you could use this on a myspace to tell about yourself.

Thing #13

I love this. This would be a great activity to use at the beginning of the year to spell out the students name and print it and then have them make an acrostic. This was a very easy process. Go to the website http://metaatem.net/words/
type in whaever it is you would like to spell and hit the button. I saw these made into pictures at Canton. Very expensive!

Thing #12

After I finally got the hang of the slideshow I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. This slide show could go along with Sarah Plain and Tall giving the students visuals of prairie life. The photo of the hay was taken in Sunnyvale, Texas. I thought that was cool.
Here are the places I got my photos from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortphoto/1746927016/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31020247@N08/3086111850/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31020247@N08/3086111852/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31020247@N08/3086111844/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31020247@N08/3086111842/

Thing #11

I really ejoyed playing with Flickr. I think that I could use this in the classroom in so many ways. Right now we are reading Sarah Plain and Tall. The students don't have an idea about a lot of vocabulary that is in the book. Pictures really help explain this more clearly. I have chosen the picture of the prairie to download in my blog and I also think this would be helpful in the classroom.