On the Road Again

Yes, Finally, after 2 years of thinking about it, and because I have to, I will begin my search for knowledge, and practice some forgotten skills.

11 tools, 11 tools, 11 tools, 11 tools..............................

Thing # 23 YES!!!, I did it

The whole experience has being great, really like it, I will do it again and again.

My favorite experience is that I finally made my Blog, Yes!!, after years of thinking and being afraid to do it.

Of course this program assisted me in my goals by making me do things I usually not do or do it one out a time.



The big surprises for me are the millions of people that are ahead of me in tech knowledge.

What I do different about this program is:

I will make everybody know in the district about it, advertised trough emails, Principals A. Principals, coaches, SIS, CTR'S, Ed Tech,. Activboard trainers in order to make sure everybody knows about it.

I WILL DO IT AGAIN.

My learning experience in one sentence, "The New Vision of Technology"

Thing # 22 Nings

Ning, Another social network or an online service to help you create your own social network and let join other networks with same interest, Perfect for me, I will need more than 24 hours a day to keep track of every thing I do, But its worth it, I really like everything I see and I learning alot. I tried teacher lingo or Ning for teachers , another wonderful place for finding blogs, teacher stuff, etc...

Thing # 21Podcasts, videocasts

I like photostory, I didnt know I had it on my laptop another check plus for library2play

The use of pod cast and video cast in our schools, teachers can make lessons that other teachers could use in their classrooms, students can also share info with other students in their schools or with students in another school, city around the world.

Thing # 20 Youtube and Teachertube

I can see the light at the end of the road , like videos, enjoyed watching videos (all kinds), embedded one and download and upload another.
The benefit of having these kind of resources in class is enormous, first class experience for children, some of them without experience or access to information, we as teachers are the source and we need the tools to deliver instruction.

First one is about teaching Tech to students:




The Second one is a fun Math problem from Abbot and Costello,

Last but not least here is Zambar another way to watch block videos

Thing # 19 Web 2.O Awards list

Here is the complete list in case that you want to check them later:

Web 2.o Award list

I do have my favorites, here are some:

Delicious, google docs, monster, career builder, wiki spaces, google earth, yahoo maps, technorati, my library thing, Rollyo, google blog search, flicr, etc.............

All the links are above on the web 2.o award list.

I think, in my personal opinion if we do want to use these technology in our schools we need new equipment for our libraries and classrooms (students), I know its coming, but very slow, there are plenty of different ways, deppending on the site that teachers librarians will use and others that we are using right now like google docs.

Thing # 18 Online Productivity tool platforms

I used Google Docs for doing an inventory, share presentations, specially if someone is away of the office or in another place, love it, perfect to work from home
You don't need office in you computer, therefore cheaper.

On the other hand if you don't have Internet or you like to work offline, the only option is to have the Office software on your computer.

About the other options open source or open office I haven't use tried, I'm not sure about download software in my work laptop, maybe latter.