Friday, January 28, 2011

Reflection 2: CDK's Education Technology Place

http://www.cyndidannerkuhn.info/CDK/Home.html

 This website is incredibly fascinating in the way that it provides so many links that take you to educational, inspirational, and fun websites, videos, articles, and so much more. I have realized that I have spent about an hour (perhaps more) only seeing a glimpse of what this website brings to viewers. If you are already working in a classroom and planning activities and lessons to students, I would highly encourage you to seek out this website and dig around for classroom fun! I found two links (after clicking the Presentation Resources Link) that totally caught my eye and interest. One link (Storybird) took me to a place where kids can use their imaginations and write or create their own picture book! There are several interesting and educational blogs to read as well.

I think the creation of this website was an excellent idea for trees are being saved by the way the DED318 class at Kansas State University can be found not on paper, but on this website. Students can clink on the class link, from this website, and look up the school weeks to find out what assignments are to be completed. Explorers of this site can also find a link that will take you to several of the websites past students have created in order to give ideas of what new students are going to be creating during the semester.

Hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule, to take an educational trip to several sites that would be hard to find without this website! Enjoy!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Reflection 1: Technology Bits, Bytes, & Nibbles

Technology Bits, Bytes, & Nibbles

This website is filled with a variety of information that will keep one entertained for hours! It was a lot of fun viewing youtube videos that advertised ipads that made me want to get one after watching "The Ipad-orchestra!" I viewed another video that could be shown in a Kindergarten classroom. This video was an animated version of the story "The Giving Tree." I even found a link that took me to learn about how to shop youtube videos to young children without the extra advertisements and other videos that show up in the background.

Besides videos, there are questions asked and areas where you can make a comment on the question. For instance, I made a comment under "What do you want Obama to say about EDCUATION on Tuesday?" By writing my own comment, I was able to engage deeper and on a personal level on this site!

My favorite part of this website, is the easy access of resources under any subject that you will teach someday in your own classroom.  Poetry was one subject I wanted to look into to find activities I could do in my own classroom. I was then led to a site that explained all the different kinds of poetry that you can get your own students to conduct and share with their classmates.

In a nutshell, this website is an excellent source for teachers to use for lesson plan ideas, hear about issues concerning education, for getting your own thoughts an ideas out into the world, and to get you into a positive spirit on teaching!