Thing #21

I am having a VERY difficult time posting my audacity recording. I have been working with audacity because I thought it would be most beneficial to my students. I made several recordings and think it would be great to use with kids. The kids could record their voices and use it as a tool to monitor their own progress whether with articulation, voice, even pragmatics. I am going to keep trying to get the actual recording onto my blog.

Thing #20

Okay, I loved the Teacher Tube and U-Tube stuff. I did have some difficulty embedding, better luck with Teacher Tube than UTube. The video I found was interesting to me because it was about golf and physics, not that I know much about physics, but I do like golf and the physics makes it even more interesting. I think that these videos have an awesome potential in the classroom, but I will need to explore more for my area of teaching.

Thing #20

Thing #19

I looked at several 2.0 sites and wow, I had no idea the things I could use my computer for and what I could create. I have to admit that I am not a web surfer and have always stuck to the basics, so muich so that I found Craig's List fasnitating and fun. I looked at recent postings about pets, although I have no intention of getting one, but it was fun. I also looked at the free 'stuff', what a variety! Backpack is a site that I saw the most potential in as far as my job goes, you could post an interactive calendar for co-workers and maybe even for older students, families to keep track of everyones comings and goings. I loved the featuer that allows for automatic reminders, how cool!

Thing #18

This is great, in fact I just finished downloading on my home computer. I can see this as tremendous advantage to all of our students. In the district we are 'pushing' technology as we should but we continue to have families, therefore students who are at a disadvantage due to ecominics so ANYTHING that makes technology more accessible for all is fantastic. Am I right in thinking kids could download what they need to be work compatible at home, save on a zip drive (or some such thing) and go back to school with more work completed?

Thing #17

Okay, I have tried to do work on this one for 40 minutes and am going to have to give it up for now. I really liked the idea, although I have to say I was thinking of this more for my home computer and family than at school. Being a therapist in the district I don't often use the computer as a search engine tool with the kids during therapy, so I am going to try again on my home computer.

Thing #16

I had no idea wiki could be used for communication, how awesome. I cannot stand the constant barage of emails back and forth and the awful reply to all scene! I think this may work even better than a BLOG for the district SLPs as an online resource.

Thing #15

Library 2.0 is interesting to me from many facets, as a parent, as 37 year old who went to Baylor without the need for a computer and left with one, and as an educator. Library 2.0 in a school system is only as good as the working equipment and the ever changing knowledge of the librarian. Meaning, the librarian at the elementary campus has to welcome new skills and equipment, be able to learn quickly, be able to support the staff always recoginizing and accepting that a 10 year old may know more than her. I am fortunate to work in an elementary school with a librarian who is wonderful and who has embraced Library 2.0 with its pros and cons.

Thing #14

Okay, I am totally blown away by Technorati! I am having a huge problem figuring out how I would use this tool with elementary speech and language kids. Maybe I need to think outside the box more or it is possible this is too much for the age of the kids I work with. Anyway, besides that I think this is a great site for those who are bloggers on a routine basis. For me personally I think del.cio.ous is more my speed as I don't spend a lot of time in front of my screen searching and reading.

Thing #13

I really liked having a designated space for my favorite things through delicious. If you were a mobile teacher this would be great and so efficient. I am picturing a class researching turtles and being able to use delicious as opposed to designated sites, of course, with this also comes more adult monitoring. In terms of my job, I could see where it could be an access tool for the therapist, but not necessarily something I would be using in therapy.

Thing #12

When I started this process I looked at several blogs and now I have a few I check in on everytime I am working. As with posting, semantics and tone are very important. That is what I think is the most important. It is vital, as with email to remember that although there is dialogue between people, it is not true conversation, because there is visual nor is there sound. Because these elements are missing words carry more power and can be very easily mis-interpretted by the audience and I would assume that it would be easy for bloggers to get over involved. I witnessed this on a blog about cameras I was reading, ugh, what a mess some commenters created!

Thing #11

I thought this was a great resource. I have to say that originally I though this would be a great tool for the therapists in the district. My thought was that we could create a 'SBISD speech' library, so that when a therapist wanted to know what was available in the district or if another SLP had a certain text they could log on and find out who had what and maybe even a review. However, after reading for info, I am not sure this would work effeciently, unless everyone took ownership of logging on materials... So I added a few titles and did explore a fwe groups and the idea may still be feasible. When school starts I will ask some other therapists what they think.