Week #4 Thing #11

I was pretty confused by wordle. I could conceptualize and understand how it could be a very useful tool in classrooms, however, I was confused in the navigation.

Week 4 Thing #10

I like using the Delicious bookmarking tool to research ideas. I think that it is a great way to keep your resources while exploring other options. I could see this being a great tool for intermediate and secondary students to help organize the massive amounts of information they now have to sift through!

Week #3 Thing #9

Twitter is such a cool source of information! I think this is really what I was hoping the RSS feed was going to be like! I can really narrow down the information that i want to see in terms of what will benefit my classroom and my students. I can cut out the secondary teachers, and focus on creative and inspirational twitter accounts that focus on primary grades~ I think that I will use this tool!

Week #3 Thing #8

Here is a link to the blog that I posted on!
Learning is Messy
I thought that this was a great way to create, maintain and facilitate educational conversation about topics. I chose this blog because it was the most well organized and had the most interesting topics of conversation. I liked this topic because ti was the most heated, and I thought it was fascinating that no educator had asked students what they thought.... bottom line the Presidents speech (Which was the topic of discussion) was for students.
However, I did feel a little intimidated by the level of conversation, research and vocabulary my fellow bloggers used. It made me step up.

Week #3 Thing #7

I had a pretty mixed review about RSS feeds being streamed into my google reader. On one hand I did feel that if you were an avid reader of professional journals and did not have many specific questions as they relate educational topics; RSS feeds may just be a quick and easy way for you to access information from one particular website. However, as a new teacher, I am often searching for specific information and many sites that offer such specific information did not offer an RSS feed. I found that I spent more time searching for websites with RSS feeds than I did actually looking for pertinent information as it it pertains to my classroom. All in all RSS feeds within Google reader was not my favorite Web 2.0 tool.