Tool #11

The students must understand their roles and responsibilities in digital society. Teachers must help students become responsible citizens, and must work as a model.

Teachers must explain and teach students the norms, rules and laws that govern the use of technology for they become good digital citizens, and responsible users of technology through the information around world network, while they use and share information appropiately.

Students must understand how digital tools are accesible to them and it's easy to work them.

Students must know how to work with some of the many digital tools that could facilitate them accessing knowledge.

Tool #10

These are some of the free apps I like:
1. Dictionary.com. It delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. No Internet connection is needed once downloaded.
2. Dragon Dictation. Easy to use voice recognition application that allows you to speak and instantly see your text or e-mail messages.
3. Comic Touch Lite. Make your own photos come alive by giving them the Comic Touch. Add balloons to give your subjects thoughts and words. Add captions to describe the scene or title the photo.

My PK students can use the iTouch watching videos, listening music, learning to read, playing games, enhancing knowledge after experiences at the zoo, etc. These are some apps appropriate for them:

1. I Can Read Lite. Designed for young children learning to read and spell. Over 60 three letter words.
2. Houston Zoo. Designed to enhance the guest experience at the zoo while increasing knowledge of wildlife and conservation both at the zoo itself and while at home.
3. VideoScience. Science experiment videos 2 to 3 minutes minutes in length that demostrate the steps of simple experiments designed to inspire kids of all ages.

Note: All the descriptions I have given before were taken from the list of SBISD Approved Apps for the iPod Touch.

Tool #9

I think screencast.com, Jing, and Skype could be used by my PK students with my help. Jing could help me save time by allowing me to take videos, or captures to create videos, when working with my students.

Skype could be useful for students in the classroom to learn to chat.

I downloaded Jing and Signed Up for screencast.com

I saved took two captures and saved them in one of my folders. Also I share one of them in the screencast folder.

Tool #8

It was a great experience uploading videos.





Videos is a powerful tool to teach new concepts because they are the visual and hearing part of the topic been taught. These 2 videos are very important while I'm teaching about Water and Animal Architects units.

Tool #7

This has been my best excited experience working with "11 Tools". Here it is my product.

Tool #6

Wikis are fun web pages to work collaboratively. PK students could begin to use them with teacher's asistance and help. Students could be working in projects adding, sharing, and discussing ideas.

Teacher teams could post road maps, lessons plans, and diferent student activities to share them and with other teams.

Tool #5

I found 2 web pages using the tags "Writing Numbers" and "Counting Numbers". I have include them in the Social Bookmarking Site into my Library. These are:

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathWritingNumbersInDifferentWaysPK.htm

http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/count_your_chickens/count_your_chickens.html

This is a powerfull tool to share important information (web sites) when our work teams.

Tool #4

Docs Google will help me to work as a real team sharing our same interest jobs.

Reader Google will help me to be well informed about things of my interest.

Tool #3

I created 2 samples using these 2 image generators: Big Huge Labs & Comic Strip Generator.

I used Big Huge Labs to create a poster with a picture of my whole PK class 09-10. I could use this tool to post pictures made when my children are working and learning and so they will be motivated to continue doing good jobs and learning.

I used Comic Strip Generator to frame a picture of one of my students. The children could be motivated to have one like this if they work hard.

Tool #2

1. What are your thoughts about building an online education community and participating in a PLN?

PLN is the best and fastest way to set up our brain to be accord with the new era and continue growing in our role as a teachers, sharing our ideas and commenting the others’ ones.

2. The point that stood me out was to be proactive writing posts and commenting others.

3. I select blogs that fit my interest, because they belong to professionals working with me and we'll have many more things to share and comment than with others:

Spring Daffodils (Aguirre Estela)
Hammer’s PK (Kim Hammer)
Rainbow Ray (Ray, Nancy)
4foru-jimr (Judy Ruppel)
Bellas Orquideas (Torrellas, Luzmila)

Tool #1

When getting started I watched the videos and felt selfmotivated to continue with the Tool #1. I followed the instructions gave there and I got it. The only doubt I have is creating The Avatar; I don't know if I did it well.

I could share this great tools with my students. They don't have an e-mail account but I can share with them when blogging with other teachers.

IT'S TIME TO FLY

How could I prepare my mind and my children's mind to receive the new social technology?
I think that the best way is starting with an opened mind.