I just made a video!

 

I am very excited to have created my very first video. This is something that I have always wanted to do. I Think it turned out pretty good for my first try. I plan to show this video to my students to give them a little background information of their teacher. Also, I hope my students will see that I was once in their shoes and I can relate to some of the issues that they face.

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

As I am being introduced to more and more great web resources, I wish I had taken more time to play with the Web 2.0 tool Delicious. When introduced to this tool, I underestimated it's greatness. I plan to start using this bookmarking site from now on because my brain is becoming overloaded with useful websites. I am very pleased that I can sign up for an account using my yahoo account. Now I just have to try to remember what sites I have come across that are worth bookmarking. I shoulda started using Delicious a long time ago.

Interactive Spreadsheet- Geometry

This is an example of how an interactive spreadsheet may be used in a high school geometry class. The images are relevant to the questions. Since responses have to be one word, their are some limitations to the level of difficulty that the questions may be. Students receive immediate feedback, which is great. This would be great as a reveiw before a test because students can see what they have not yet grasped. On the other hand, I am not sure how the points come into play. Can the teacher electronically access the number of points each student recieves? I think I would prefer to use google docs than excel in to create interactive worksheets for my classes in the future.

Voicethread

I don't really like this Web 2.0 tool very much. It is not very user friendly. When I was trying to comment, it took forever to get things to show up without fading and looking the way I wanted it to. For perfectionists like myself, using the free hand pencil to draw things is a nightmare. I would not want to work out a math problem on there. Also, when the writing fades, it looks a little creepy. I see there are a lot of math examples that have already been created, but I don't think I will be using this tool.

Inspiration: Regular and Irregular Polygons

This graphic organizer would be great in a high school geometry class. There are notes attached to each type of polygon describing their properties. The graphic organizer includes images, which allows students to connect what they are learning about geometry to the real world!

Scavenger Hunt

Beautiful Butterflies!!!