Week 14

The two applications I reviewed are google documents and picnik.

Google Docs is an innovative app that I see being extremely useful in the classroom. As a teacher, I could see it being used as a class-wide resource that can be edited by students throughout the year. This can be all sorts of different file types, too! I think that Google Docs is a wonderful and green alternative to communication within a group. A specific example of this would be to set up a spreadsheet of data and for homework have each child enter his or her data on the spreadsheet.

Picnik is the second app I chose to review. Picnik is a photo editing app that allows users to add text, change colors, and crop photos, among other things. I think that there may be some use for this in the classroom, however I am finding a hard time pinpointing a specific scenario. I think that a class may be able to use this for an art project or maybe a teacher could use this to make a photo collage of their class. Outside of those, I feel that this wouldn't serve too much of a purpose in the classroom.

week 11

A little bit on Kalamazoo.


This would be an example of a students work from a fourth grade class learning about the geography and history of Michigan. While the wording may be a little lengthy for a fourth grader, this is the general idea I have in mind!

Week 10

This concept mapping would be used with students in lower elementary to describe some of their favorite places and things to do. This would be done as a whole class with the teacher controlling the web-app. This would help show students how to organize their ideas.

This screencast is made for a research paper. This will show students how to set up a email alert system for a topic that they are researching. This tool essentially does to the researching for them. Quite a handy tool. This would also help with all future research done in the class!

Week 8 option 2

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For this activity I would have students create their own map drawing out the routes taken during the transatlantic slave trade. We would spend time on the subject and on how to create out own google maps. This all would take place over the course of a week. Each student would be responsible to for color coding and labeling each route and what they were used for.

As you can see in the sample, I have labeled all of the routes and what they were used for. I would expect something similar from each student.

Week 7

http://www.screencast.com/users/nerfherder/folders/Mental%20Math%20Secrets%20-%20Your%20Secret%20Weapon%20for%20Success


This blog provides tips on how to solve more complicated math problems mentally.

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