Week 4

I actually feel comfortable with this material. I have used photostory 3 to create many class projects, family anniversary slide shows, class musical big books. I have not seen animoto before and when I was exploring with it I didn't like how it constantly tried to get you to purchase the professional version....but they have to make money somehow! I liked learning how to customize my Discovery streaming page as well as the teacher options for lessons, but found it frustrating that it was organized by title and not grade levels. That can be very time consuming for those of us in younger grades. I love teacher tube! I will be using an alphabet video with my class and the one about slope is very entertaining and it sticks in your head! I wish I could use that in my Kinder class but it is a little above them. I think the clips on positive discipline will be a good reference this next year when I find that I need more tools in my bag. I did not like the advertisements before each video. I think if I hear the one about the lady and her marathon again, I could finish it for her. But overall, I really liked this lesson. :)

Week 3

I have used Google for a long time and never clicked on setting up my own page with personalized areas of interest. I found that I was a little overzealous with adding a lot of little apps. I like the Department of Education app, I am sure I will use it this next year. I am having trouble getting the song to stop playing in the background on my page, it has become very irritating, so I have muted my computer all together. Is there a spot to turn it off? That is a dumb question, I am sure there is. Can you please tell me where to make it stop?
I am having trouble logging on to Atomic Learning. I will try again tomorrow. I have used it before, so I know it is a great tool.

Week 2

I am not on Facebook or any of the social networks that are out there due to the possibility of something inappropriate being posted by someone commenting. So I kind of wrap blogs in with that and have not ever done one or even really read others. I have heard of of teachers being "reprimanded" for things they have about their family or things they did over the summer being inappropriate for their students / parents knowing. But since I have several hobbies that I know would benefit from blogs, I am willing to start with reading blogs but I am not sure about creating one outside of this class....yet.... I do think this blog was simple to set up and customize.
Another fear I have is that I will have horrible spelling and grammar. Not good traits for a teacher.