Google

I am so excited that we started off the class by getting blogs. I love blogging and i think it is a great way to put out there what you're feeling and then have people let you know what they think. I liked Doc Waters idea about using a blog as a journal for my day to show how things went with lessons and my students. I also really liked using the google pages in class today. In my 2200 class we used the My UEN, but i found that i couldn't always get it to do exactly what i wanted. I have been using blogger and picasa for a while now and they are so easy to use and i always can find new things that i can do with them. That is why i want to use google pages to create a site for me and my students to use. I think that it would be great for students to have a class blog or website that they could use to post their work or use as their journal. Another amazing google application i learned about was google docs. I am so interested in learning more about it. It is so great for students to be able to work on projects with each other as collaborators and then being able to work from home or school. I just wish that i had had this type of technology when i was in school, and i will definitely use it with my students because it allows them to have a little more freedom with their work and allows the students to critique each other in a way that they can continually fix and work on. I am a big fan of students doing wikis and i really would like to learn a lot more about that. I'm really excited for this class and being able to continue learning more about all of these fun tools that i can use in my classes.