Summer 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

Tool #5 Social Bookmarking

Diigo es a great tool to"travel" with all my bookmarks anywhere and has a nice tool bar to use it with any computer even the new tech like, Ipod or Ipad, however, the only thing that I do not like is that in order to get the web site filed, you have to go copy the web link and the paste it into the URL space.I hope the creators can make an easy way to do it , like the "easy to add icon" with the star plus in Microsoft.Anyway is for now a good tool.
Some of my new personal websites in there are:

www.sonyericssonwtatour.com
www.virtualtennisacademy.com
www.5min.com
In my classroom the tool will be used to put together all the websites I use with the Activeboard like: dictionary.com, wordle.com, reading a-z and other sites, instead of having the all spread out among computers.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tool #2

Building an online education community represents an advance in communication among teachers with the purpose of enhancing student's learning by sharing information, ideas, points of view and resources that we do not know are there or we forget how to use when a specific theme comes in the school year. Participating in a PLN is therefore, an unvaluable tool to acquire and grasp information to be used with students.
The point that stood out to me from the commenting advice is the fact that common sense had never been more real, since using all different points of view lead to form a bigger and better understanting of concepts.
The five blogs I selected for my comments are Google,