Today we ended our showing of digital autobiographies. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about my peers through pictures. Pictures are something I cherish and love looking at and I think I will show presentations about myself in the future to introduce myself to students. Speaking of pictures, I celebrated my 21st birthday this week and here is a picture from my birthday celebration. :)
Chapter 7 was an interesting read and the two girls did a fabulous job presenting the chapter in class. They provided so many resources that can be useful to use in our classrooms. I want to go back and look through the resources because I felt like i did not have time to explore any of the websites. I thought the assessment was pretty cool and fun. Using video-conferencing in the classroom is something I hope to do because you can connect with so many different people in different parts of the world. The video they showed at the beginning of the presentation was eye opening and showed how much technology is actually used today. Videos such as that one and others that are similar always grab my attention and really interests me.
Sarah brought up an interesting contemporary issue that I often think about: the growing rate of childhood obesity. The benefits of technology are very great and I do not believe we should "choose" playing outside or being active over letting children play with technological resources but rather create a balanced lifestyle for our children. We cannot blame just media for the obesity problem because there are many other factors that contribute (the food we eat, etc.).
A cool tool that I particularly liked today was DrawAnywhere. This is a site where people can create diagrams, flowcharts, concepts maps, and classroom setups. I also like the fact that you can upload your own photos for your charts or diagrams (but is not available in the free version, of course!). Another tool introduced, WooMe, is a site that I don't think I will be visiting in the future! It seems like a very sketchy resource and I would not let my students or children use this site. I liked how Jeff tried to justify his adding this cool tool to the list :) But it just goes to show how quickly things can change!
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