So, my weekly participation has always been a little hard for me because I always try to find my own resources online with how I could teach technology. I thought I would come up dry before the end of the semester (which is devastating when you know there are almost limitless resources available--could anything else make you feel more incompetent?) but then I realized what one of my greatest resources was . . . drum roll . . . my Google Reader! All the blogs we subscribed to at the beginning of the school year are surprisingly full of great stuff to use. (I wonder if that's maybe why we did it . . . *significant look*.)I looked through the hundred or so posts I had been missing out on and found site after site that would be great resources for a classroom. I'll just post one here, but now I'm relieved my discoveries haven't come up short. I guess it was almost like sailing through the internet and discovering a new continent instead of the end of the earth.
This week, I want to mention ourstory.com. This site is amazing not just for school but for a student's personal life as well. You just sign up to the sight for free and start creating a very visual time line. There are lots of possibilities in a classroom setting--students could create a time line of their life to help them pick certain life events in order to write a personal essay or they could create a time line of certain books they've read so they can follow plot and character development. I've actually written a lesson plan in one of my previous classes that requires students to create a time line. How much more exciting to use a computer and pictures to do it than a paper and pencil!
So, lesson learned--I'm going to look through my Google Reader blogs more often and keep adding to my resources so I can always pull from them and learn as a teacher.
No comments:
Post a Comment