Riverside Technology Page

Thing 5

2012-01-30T11:50:00.000-08:00

As I said in the previous post, I think RSS subscriptions are good and quite easy. If you really like a blogger or a site and don't want to spend a lot of time searching all the sites, you can just subscribe and you can have it all come to you. Nice!!

Thing 4

2012-01-30T11:35:00.001-08:00

I will be honest, I do not like subscribing to more than a few pages. Too many emails each day from all these sites have made me less likely to read them now. I like being kept up to date though on my phone so I use the news subscriptions. The RSS subscribe buttons make it really easy if that is what you want to read.

Thing 3

2012-01-30T10:52:00.000-08:00

I have a blog that I used to use, think I will get back to it. I set mine so that students could respond but I had to approve their comments. I thought it was necessary with 6th grade students, but what a pain! Also, I think that my webpage has finally introduced a blog that could be monitored. I think that having one site for everything is better. Easier for students, parents, and myself.

This links my class blog.

Thing 1 and Thing 2

2012-01-30T09:54:00.000-08:00

Well I couldn't read the Web 2.0 article from school because it was blocked so I will reflect on the video. I think that the video does an excellent job describing the technological views of our students and presents us with some interesting idea of how to incorporate technology into our classes.

I have a couple blogs already, which I forgot the passwords for...which means I have not utilized them in quite a while. I think that I found that my students were excited at first to respond to the class blog but then grew tired of it. I think getting fresh new ideas from other blogs will help with that issue.

Welcome!

2008-11-23T19:01:00.000-08:00

Welcome! I hope you are all using your Blogs and maybe even started creating a Webquest. It would be nice to see what everyone is doing in their classrooms and how students are responding. We can all learn from each other!

I thought this Blog would be a great way for us to keep each other informed about new technology. If you would like to collaborate, I can add you as one of this Blog’s authors.

A cool tool (that’s not so new anymore) that I mentioned at the PD is from Voki, which allows you to create animated avatars. You can send them to others or embed them in your blog. Students love them and it’s free and easy to use. Register using an e-mail account and have fun…the possibilities are endless!

Here’s one that I just made:

Get a Voki now!