Thoughts about Web 2.0 / New Learning
We are obviously in an age of technology. The students, now as young as kindergarten, all encounter and use technology on a daily basis. The days of lecture in the classroom room with student...
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1. Do you think blogging has important implications for teaching and learning in 2013? I do believe that blogging has important implications for teaching and learning in 2013 and beyond. I believe, if...
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The RSS feed is a great tool for stream-lining all of the websites that I daily visit. Although I do like the services that it offers, so far , I prefer visiting each of the sites that I have put into...
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I really enjoyed exploring the different tech options. Most of these will serve my music education classroom well. Although they could easily be used as “bling”, under the right care and direction, all...
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Thought 1: In exploring the Creative Commons and Open Education sites I found a great website with public domain MP3’s. The website, found through Open Education Resources is Free Music Archive. Since...
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Since I am a music teacher I naturally gravitated toward a presentation involving the Arts. The presentation that I viewed on the K12 Online Conference session website was titled: “How Technology...
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The setting up of the RSS reader and adding sites was the easy part! I find that keeping up with all of the information coming in and skimming through it is the most challenging. Like a senior adult...
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Back in 2001 I began working with website creation using the program Dreamweaver. Although an incredible program, learning to master it took some time and effort. I wish I would have known about Wiki’s...
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For many years I have seen the Flickr icon show up everywhere on the web. Unfortunately, I have often ignored it as a pointless site that is determined to gain my attention through a bombardment of...
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Thing 12 With most of the projects this summer, I have tried to complete them with my Fall curriculum in mind. That being said, I chose to find, download, and create a slideshow that depicts several...
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Part 1 This was my first encounter with Classroom 2.0. I thought there was a plethora of information but found the amount of information on the site a little overwhelming. There is almost too much...
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Diigo offers a wide range of options and “things” that will benefit my students. A couple of the features that I really like are: the accessibility and the page marking options. The ability to access...
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I have created a website this summer that I plan to heavily use in this coming school year. On that website is my blog in which I discuss the importance of lifelong learning and the advantages of...
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I stumbled upon iTunes you about six years ago. At the time I was training for half marathons and wanted something to listen too while I ran. Although I really enjoy my workout music, I sometimes...
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Similar to the Staples button: “that was easy” and fun as well. I really enjoyed creating the screencast. The entire process from recording to uploading to YouTube was extremely easy. I am still...
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Being that I teach general music I often utilize YouTube in my curriculum. I specifically teach world music and it is often helpful for my students to not only hear about other cultures music but also...
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Last year our school started the school year with brief training using Google Drive…this year we have moved our school email over to Google and will frequently use the drive. I love the features that...
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I started using Evernote earlier this summer after being introduced to it during a technology conference. I like how easy it is to create a new note that can be categorized, tagged, and organized. When...
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This was my first experience using Twitter. Although it is easy to post comments and see others, I am just not sure how often I would use it. Like many other places of “self-expression”, the idea of...
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I thoroughly enjoyed this class. As the title of blog page states: the day you stop learning…get out of education. I truly believe that as educators we should continually strive to learn and “better”...
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