In my Google Reader, I found an article title Jets Fined $100,000 For Sideline Trip. The article tells how the New York Jets were fined by the NFL because their Coach tripped a Miami Dolphins player on the sideline in a game. The league fined the team because they wanted to emphasize that clubs are accountable for the actions of their employees. I found this very interesting in that the Coach was not fined. He was suspended but he should have been fined also. The club has millions and I doubt that $100,000 is going to hurt them. However, if the coach was fined than he would think twice for deliberately tripping another player running down the field. I think this sends the wrong message to Coaches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/sports/football/31alosi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thing 14
http://www.jigzone.com/
This was my favorite. I could get lost doing jigsaw puzzles. I really liked that I can upload a photo to create my own jigsaw puzzle. This can be a good site for my students as a brainteaser or something to do after they have finished their assignment in the computer lab.
http://www.toondoo.com/
I can use this site to Create and share your own comic strip. This would be useful to my students to create storyboards, newspaper boards that address the cultural content of novels.
http://tadalist.com/
This is a great site to help keep me organized. I can create easy list and sort and check them off when I have completed them.
This was my favorite. I could get lost doing jigsaw puzzles. I really liked that I can upload a photo to create my own jigsaw puzzle. This can be a good site for my students as a brainteaser or something to do after they have finished their assignment in the computer lab.
http://www.toondoo.com/
I can use this site to Create and share your own comic strip. This would be useful to my students to create storyboards, newspaper boards that address the cultural content of novels.
http://tadalist.com/
This is a great site to help keep me organized. I can create easy list and sort and check them off when I have completed them.
Thing # 13
I like creating the images. It was something fun to do and I can put them up in my classroom. The websites were helpful in giving me a steps to create the images and how to save and download them. Students can also use this in their projects to make them more interesting. They can also use this make catchy phrases to help understand concepts. To make these, I use ComicStrip Generator and the Sign Generator.
Thing 12
Picture 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyshi/
Picture 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/glassslippergourmet/
Picture 3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsilver/
Picture 4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstephenconn/3073665923/
One of the projects I have my students create in English is a story board. I thought I would do a short storyboard about my wife. It starts out in Philadelphia and ends in Texas. I enjoyed creating the slide show. However, I ran into some problems while trying to embed the slide show. It is necessary to be in Edit HTML mode when trying to embed the slide. It was a little frustrating trying to embed without that little bite of detail.
Thing # 11
Using Flickr was relatively easy. I found many pictures that were relevant to the novels that my students read. I found a lot of pictures for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird . There was a set of images that followed the order of the story. My students can use Flickr to help them do story maps or storyboards on the novel we read. The only negative thing I will note is that it took a lot of time to find good pictures.
This picture I choose is from the novel Romeo and Juliet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/16968576@N02/by clasic_lasuperlativ's photostream
Thing # 10
Creative Commons
I found that using Creative Commons was very easy. I just click on the Creative Commons Search Tool and typed in what I wanted to find. I have never noticed the CC logo on websites as I downloaded material. I do not think the CC logo will impact the students but it will impact how I use material from websites, and I will communicate the same message to my students about fair use. I have learned that Creative Commons will allow me the freedom to share and reuse material that I got off the web legally. The only negative thing I see about Creative Commons is trying to get the students to buy in to using material legally.
I found that using Creative Commons was very easy. I just click on the Creative Commons Search Tool and typed in what I wanted to find. I have never noticed the CC logo on websites as I downloaded material. I do not think the CC logo will impact the students but it will impact how I use material from websites, and I will communicate the same message to my students about fair use. I have learned that Creative Commons will allow me the freedom to share and reuse material that I got off the web legally. The only negative thing I see about Creative Commons is trying to get the students to buy in to using material legally.
Thing # 9
When I first started setting up my wiki, I was very frustrated. After about an hour, I printed out the instructions and made several mistakes it got better. It actually became really interesting and fun to create my wiki in the sandbox. Once I got familiar with it, I was able to change the color of my letters and do different fonts. At the end, I decided to get creative and download pictures of my children playing on the beach to my wiki. It did help to look at others and see what they did on their wikis.
http://misd23sandbox.wikispaces.com/csand
http://misd23sandbox.wikispaces.com/csand
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