Week 6 - Jing- Screen-o-matic

I love Jing and screencast -o-matic. Jing will be a great site for my students to produce and share their work. Screencast is just what I need to develop demonstrations for my students on how to perform a specific task on the computer. I will be able to add these demonstrations to my class web site. I love these tools.

I am not a big fan of diigo I am not a big highlighter so it dosen't really appeal to me. However it is a useful tool and I think many people would enjoy using it.

If I am creative I can see poll everywhere being a useful tool. I Think I could set up a unit test this way, but I am pretty sure I would be limited to true false questions, which are not the best way to test student knowledge. I will have to play more with this one.

Week 5

Picnik is great! There have been so many times where I have had students working with digital photos, and they need to tweek it somehow and the software is not avaliable on their machine. This gives them the ability to rotate a picture no matter what computer they are on ( as long as they have internet access.) Also the price of some of the photo editing software is pretty expensive when all you need to do is rotate a picture.

I love mogulus. This will be perfect for an assignment I give my students to create a video. It will be so much nicer to be able to produce their video on the internet. I am happy to see that these tools are avaliable.

Not a big fan of skrbl. I can see how it would be useful in the right context, but it does not appeal to me.

Whiteboard seems like a fun way to share art work, but I have never masters drawing with a mouse.

Week 4

Pownce seems like another version of facebook, which I have not yet found a great need for. Ning appears to have a unique aspect to it, in that various groups are set up to join certian groups such as Internation Water Polo, would be different than just corresponding with an aquaintance on facebook. Twitter seeems like another facebook type of technology, I have yet to find what makes it unique.

Week 3 - Psychology Videos

I found sensation and perception to be very interesting even though I have seen most of it before. I would like to see greater sensory perceptions I would like to know how Penn and Teller pull of some of their illusions.

Week 3 - Kindling, Skype, Audacity, and ClassSpot

I was not very impressed with Kindling, just because I don't have much use for posting a message for others to vote on, but I can see how it would be useful to a certian group of people.

Skype seems like a great way to communicate. I could not play around very much because I do not have a microphone for my computer.

Audacity is going to be very helpful in my classroom as students create various projects they will be able to record their own sound effects. I think the kids will have a great time using this tool.

Wow! I cannot wait to try ClassSpot in my classroom. This will be a great tool for students to be able to share their work with the class or do their own classroom presentation without having to login to the instructors personal computer. Wow!