Wiki's and Pod Casts

In class last week we talked about using wiki's and pod casts. I like the idea of using pod casts in my classroom. I don't love the idea of using wiki's in the classroom because they seem so unreliable. I think that there are better types of technology out there.

Class for the week of July 7th

In class this week we looked into the credibility of a web site. I used a form from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html to evaluate some educational web sites. It was interesting to see what makes a good web site and some of the ways you can tell if it is credible. This was an interesting thing to do and I found some great web sites that can be used in my future classroom.

Happy 4th of July!

Scofield was a lot of fun this weekend. We went up Friday to my parent’s cabin and went to the parade and booths on Saturday. We decorated our float Saturday morning and had a great time. We threw a ton of otter pops. It worked out good enough that every one of my siblings and their families came. All seven of us in one location is hard to come by these days. We ate, swam, visited, and ate some more all weekend. We had a lot of laughs and enjoyed being together.

Kinlie and Izzy at the cabin holding mom's puppies.

Cydnee, Maryann, Me, Lauren and Courtney separating some of the otter pops.

Ashley, Kayson and Lauren holding the puppies.

Brian working on the float.(Putting out the vibe!)

Chris working hard on the float.

Mare, Lauren and Kayson on the float.

Jen working on the float.

The Up Coming Weekend

It’s almost the weekend! I’m excited to be going up to Scofield for the holiday! It was hard to concentrate in class today. We talked about skyping. We worked together as groups on a few webquests. It is interesting how much information you can get from the internet and how you can use that in your classroom.