BP2_iGoogleScreenshots

Here are my iGoogle Screenshots:

Home Screenshot

FSO Screenshot

AR Screenshot

ETC Screenshot

GR1_Google Reader

Edublogs is located at http://edublogs.org. This is a free education blogging site. It lets you create blogs for teachers and students. The blogs are easy to create and customize. Video, photographs, and podcast can be added safely and securely. I have created a “book blog spot” for my action research project through Edublogs. It seems simple to create and manage a class blog for independent reading. It is important to me professionally, as I can create class publications, eliminate paper newsletters and post video podcast and documents for students and parents.

Langwitches Blog: The Magic of Learning is located at http://langwitches.org/blog/.  This blog showcases web 2.0 applications for elementary school. This site will benefit me professionally, as it links me to many 21^st century tools available to use in my language arts and social studies classes. Check out the cool graphic representation of digital storytelling by Silvia Tolisano on her blog, posted on the site on February 6^th, 2010! What a great graphic to show students, educators, and parents all of the benefits of digital storytelling. I can’t wait to check out more blogs on this useful site!

 

Mixbook at http://www.mixbook.com/edu offers educators a great collaborative environment where students can write, edit, and produce books. It is a secure environment where students create digital stories as they collaborate together with free collaborative tools. There is a gallery of examples and a blog to get ideas for projects in the classroom. This is a useful site to educators!

Dictionary.com offers a word of the day link at http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ offers just that. A different word each day for students to discuss, use in writing, create graphics to accompany, and connect to other areas of study, or words in the classroom. I enjoy this as a reference site for students as they learn new words, and there is even a notes area where students can add their own word of the day to be published!  

Thinkfinity is located at  http://thinkfinity.org  . It is a great site for up to date professional news. There are lesson plan ideas as well as links to interesting blogs and stories about the use of technology in education and education reform. I easily connected with many of the feels in reference to web-based learning and 21^st century skills. This is definitely a feed worth looking at! 

That is all for now! Enjoy Swartz Bloggin… Feel free to comment about any feed you find particularly interesting! I will cross the next bridge when I get there…hope you will join me...