Tool # 3

1. Here is the Wordle I made....this is very cool and great for brainstorming!! (Look at the top of this blog to see this. Made at Wordle.

2. This is a text image I made at ImageChef. This is a pretty cool way to display anything-photos, messages, etc. Pretty cool!!!

Tool #2, part 2

1. In the artice "What is the changing role of the teacher..." I found it interesting that they commented on every type of mode of communication, like Twitter, etc. and that they also commented on how to help the teacher. They also addressed discipline issues in the classroom and that the teacher would be more of a facilitator and that instead of "assembly-line learning" learning would be more individualized. I find this interesting and wonder how it would work in my math class.

2. The blogs I choose to use are:

Tool #2-PLN's

1. I think that the idea or concept of PLNs is great. I already feel like my teaching partner and I already do this daily on our campus but to be able to expand it through blogging will have an even larger impact. We will be able to talk with other educators anywhere to get their thoughts and ideas. Collaboration has often been one of the best activities for me as a teacher. I have learned so much from other teachers and often get some of the best teaching practices from my colleagues and now I can gain this from teachers outside of my school, my town, and maybe outside of my country. This has lots of potential to be very powerful for us and for our students!

Tool #1

O.k. so I was supposed to title my first blog, Tool #1 and I did not. So this is blog or post #2. This process has not been too bad but I had to go back alot to see how to do a few things. I would have liked to have a little more help but figured things out I guess. This should be learning process all the way for me but will be very useful in my class as I find ways to use it for my math classes.

Blogging

This is just the beginning of blogging. I would like to use a blog either weekly or monthly in my classes this year. I think this will be fun and challenging to keep this up and to keep the blogs fresh, fun, and interesting for my students. So we will see how this goes. I am still learning alot and have a lot of questions. For instance, I am not sure how to start a blog but I was able to post this so I guess this will be an ongoing learning experience for me.......