Greetings fellow classmates. I am checking back in on my blog for this class. Unfortunately, I am still in school until Friday June 20th, so I am unable to participate in the first two class sessions. I am trying to complete everything via the syllabus and it is proving to be a tad difficult. That, paired with sitting in on interviews for our 5th Grade position after school until 7:00 or later this week is a bit much right now.
I was looking at the resources everyone explored for this weeks assignment, and I was surprised to say that I was able to find all new resources. With approaching the end of the program, I feel like there has been overlap in resources presented and researched, but this time was different. I really enjoyed looking at Yacpaca, Searchme, and screencast. Each served a very different purpose, but I could apply any or portions of all of the site into my classroom curriculum.
Through the threaded discussion I got some great ideas on how each source could be incorporated into my grade level curriculum. I am going to try to create student portfolios for kids this year, so that at Fall and Spring conferences we are able to assess progress made throughout the year. Saerchme was such a cool visual search tool. I loved how anything you types in, it could find a variety of topics that might be relevant to your search. I am looking at the screencast site to create tutorials for my math curriculum. Students often have questions when completing homework, and I think this would be an awesome tool to reference when they are working at home with parental support.
I’m glad you are able to follow as much as you can. The tools are good to know about and experiment with. Your elementary kids might like the Search me pages. I’m glad you are getting info from your peers on the discussion board.