Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Exploring Diigo, Blogs, and Animoto

After exploring through the assignments, I can see how using Diigo in the classroom can be a good way to organize specific resources you would like your students to have access to. This can help when sometimes a search on a particular topic can become overwhelming for some students. It also helps the teacher screen for reliable websites that will not steer the students away. It will keep research time more productive.

I loved watching the Animotos. It already got my brain running to decided what kind of Animoto I will make. I especially liked the shapes and seasons. I was really interested in watching the spanish vocabulary  video, but I couldn't get it to work. I was hoping to see if maybe I could use that idea to incorporate kindergarten high frequency words somehow.  

1 comment:

  1. You might want to check Symbaloo as an option for creating a "dashboard" of sites you want your students to use. Because the "dashboard" with each site uses pictorial icons from the sites' trademark option, it becomes a way for your students to easily find what sites you want them to use. I can share a link to one third grade teacher's site with her Symbaloo "dashboards" in another post.

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