Friday, May 25, 2012

Summertime soon.

Another inspired morning...I really like the small group learning format.  Blogger has a lot of functions that I was unaware of.  I’m still not sure how I’ll be using it, but I do hope to incorporate blogs this year.  This is the same deal with google maps.  I’ll definitely find a place in my one Social Studies class for it.  Right now I’m thinking of setting up something with Goddard on it and lines showing how far it is do different areas we study throughout the year.(About 7000+ miles to Mesopotamia!)  The information on Google research was totally new to me.  How cool.  Google is just improving daily which makes me think it was a good move for us to be going to google docs.  It does a great job getting us more into the 21st century learning.  I love how it integrates so many different things.  I don’t really do a lot of research in my classes at this time, but I can see it being used in some way or another.  As for easy bib, I’ve used it myself for my master’s classes so nothing new there.  I just love learning new things(especially with technology!)

Now for the afternoon.  Getting a little sleepy...mere hours away from the beginning of summer.  Learned another new/awesome thing...Google Forms! I’m already working on a parent survey to get information like e-mails and phone numbers in a single place.  I plan on using it a lot during the year for quizzes and tests.  Time for a busy summer.

3 comments:

  1. I am so glad to hear that you are feeling that these two sessions were a ton of information in a very short time and that you are hoping to connect this in some way with the new science curriculum! This is my goal as well, and I am thrilled to have so many 6th grade science colleagues throughout the district working on this together.

    I have used Google Forms for a couple of different purposes in the last couple years (check-up quizzes, surveys, data collection) and although it has it drawbacks (e.g. no ability to upload images/diagrams/pictures...), it is a wonderful tool. I am certainly not an expert, but let me know if you would like to see any of my forms. I am happy to share.

    Enjoy the rest of your summer! See you on August 9th.

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  2. I noticed that you are interested in Google Forms and Google Maps. Both of them are super-useful on a classroom or student blog. I just came back from the Google Summit and there were a couple of presentations that you might have been interested in. Here's the whole list. It might not appear as a link - you can just copy and paste it into the address bar and it should work.

    http://co.gafesummit.com/resources/presentation-resources

    I hope you are able to find some helpful resources there.

    Please let me know how I can help as we move forward!

    Chris
    cmoore@lps.k12.co.us

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  3. Chris, Great site with a bunch of resources. Is there a site out there where I can get time to move more slowly so I have time to do everything?

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