Digital Photography

I love taking pictures of my students doing projects or on field trips. I like to use the pictures later to discuss what we did and let them write about what was done. I have also used a flip camera in my classroom and let the students hold it to record their classmates. We have used it to do journaling about the process of taking care of baby chicks while they were developing in the egg. They loved using the camera and talking to the camera to explain what we were doing and then we loaded the video journals to our class blog to let others know about it.

Webquest

I used trackstar to create a webquest about embrology and chicks hatching from their egg. My students actually did this project this year and loved it. So I created this webquest that could be done along or seperate from the embrology project with the incubator. It has great interactive websites for learning about the process that the chick goes through while inside the egg.

Facebook

I have a facebook account and love it. It's an easy place to see pictures and what people are doing that I used to talk to on a regular basis but for whatever reason we have not stayed in contact as much. I can also see pictures of old friends that are having kids now.

Social Bookmarking, Webquesting, and Facebook

We have been doing a lot of different things lately in this class. I love the social bookmarking because I have found it to be so helpful. I would find myself needing a website that was saved as a favorite at my school but I was at my house or somewhere else. But after saving all my favorites on Del.icio.us I can access my favorites anywhere I am. I love it because I have set up tags where my students can go to things that are just for them as well.