Technology+Tips

=Share your favorite websites or strategies to integrate technology.=

KakaoTalk (I just love the name) - is a multi-platform SMS app that allows to share the text, video, photos.It is free. Easy to use, although I am just now trying to explore all of its features. Idea for the use: I sometimes ask my students to text me at the end of the class one thing they have learned in today's class session (exit ticket of sorts). KakaoTalk can be a nice tool to do it, as it allows sharing of ideas (I think it is kind of like a wiki for mobile devices, but I have to explore more...). Will keep posting and will let you know. Ellina

Google Blogs: I set up a class blog through Google for the ED 475 and ED 449S classes. Each week one student create a prompt for that class blog. The prompt must address an educational issue of concern to them. The student sends me the prompt first so it can be edited and then I upload it to the Google class blog. Each student has an assigned date on which to submit a prompt. Others in the class comment on the prompt and add ideas and/or pose additional questions. It is an attempt to link classroom theory to the practice that they are observing "out in the field." Many very interesting and timely educational discussions come about as a result of the weekly prompts that are submitted. I would be delighted if some of my colleagues would care to join the discussion. Just ask, get a Google account and I will be happy to give you the URL. Edith Ries

First, Edith, I would love to join the discussion with your students! Please send me the URL, I have a Google account already. Second, I just found what seems to be a fantastic site to organize the content and to share it with others. [|Check it out here!] This is the site which allows you to create online binders, which I find very useful. I have been thinking about something like that for a while and voila! I have already created a binder for my ED 448 class and this may be a tool that we can possibly use for ED 475 students and their online portfolios. All we have to capture in LiveText then is the link. BTW, there is also an i-pad app... Hope you find it as useful as I do! Ellina