Google Site

Today we created a google site and uploaded information, created and edited the side bars. I also uploaded a video from google videos.
click here to view my google site


The ISTE Standards: Standard 2: Design and Development Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments a. design and adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. This presentation was found on the web and downloaded to the desktop and saved as a .pdf, .pps and .ppt extensions.

Jeopardy Action Buttons

Today we downloaded a jeopardy game made in powerpoint to our desktop. Then we changed the game to make it relevant for our class. We also had to add an action button and hyperlink it to the correct slide.

Click here to view today's jeopardy game

The size of the presentation is 421 KB

The ISTE Standards: Standard 2: Design and Development Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments a. design and adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

Embed a presentation

The size of the document is 3.90 MB

The ISTE Standards:
Standard 2: Design and Development Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
a. design and adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
This presentation was found on the web and downloaded to the desktop and saved as a .pdf, .pps and .ppt extensions.

Working with Presentations

Today we located an educational elementary education powerpoint presentation on the web and saved it on our desktop.
Then we opened it in powepoint and practiced saving it in different file extensions using the save as option.
Then we uploaded it to google documents the .ppt and .pdf extension documents.

Finally we created a blog post with an embedded presentation. This didn't work the first time. It took me three tries to get it to work. (It gave me error messages)

To view the presentation click here.

The size of the document is 3.90 MB

The ISTE Standards:
Standard 2: Design and Development Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
a. design and adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

Lesson Plan using Pod Cast

Today I created a lesson plan that used Pod Cast to send a message to the troops in Iraq.

Click here to view it. To view the rubric click here.

This covered ISTE Standards:

ISTE Standard Nets for students 2007

NETS (S)2. Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Both documents were saved in google documents and published to the web.

Creating a Post Cast

Today we created a Pod Cast for our lesson plan. It was pretty easy.

Link to Pod Cast

This covered ISTE Standards:

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information
resources to support research and learning

I saved the PodCast as a .wav document and can be opened in Media Player.