Inspiration Project

This is just another creative way that you can assess your students. Many students will not perform to the best of their capabilities on standardized testing or on quizzes and tests in the classroom. This is a great way to give them an opportunity to express what they really know and their creativity.
I would use this to create handouts for my students to have visual representation of the material and its relatedness with all the subgroups.
I love this and I am a visual learner, so I know that for young children to be able to have something like this is really great!

Podbean

Podbean I think is a really cool tool. I would totally use it for the parents aspect. That way students can have their parents help them out and they can have a podcast to guide them step-by-step. I don't have the tools to record and upload right now but hopefully I will have an iphone before I start teaching. Hopefully! I would definitely use this web tool in my classroom.

Digital Collection and Scavenger Hunt

Okay to be honest, this was the hardest assignment to date! What went well? Scanning photos, downloading and uploading photos. What did not go well? The 72 resolution and putting my google presentation onto Blogger. This took a very long time because I was not a hundred percent sure how to do this. And I have a very bad "try to do it by yourself and don't think about asking for help" mentality. But I figured it out eventually...better late than never?

Halloween- Digital Collection Remastered

Scavenger Hunt Slideshow

Halloween - Digital Photo Collection

smilebox

Smilebox is also so cool! I like how it can be used to really get the students involved in the class and whatever the class is learning about at that time. I think this is a wonderful tool for high school students to use on their own for class presentations and projects. I also think it'd be super fun to have one for your class anyway. Give yourself some downtime to have fun and get creative when it comes to school-related activities!

picnik

I loved picnik! So much fun! I have seen the results from resources like this but I had never experimented with it myself. I like that it offers a free version and that the upgrade isn't that much more, it could be worth it? I really love how you can be connected through facebook. That makes it so easy and fun! I think this tool is great for students' creative and interactive participation. I like it.

Timetoast

If I had a promethean/smartboard in my classroom, I will totally use timetoast in my classroom. It would be lots of fun for classroom participation. But other than an in-class activity, I don't think that I would use this. I know sometimes facebook has apps that are kind of like this and they are fun for a short amount of time. I don't think I should be confessing this in this class, but I am totally a more hands-on person. I love cute crafts that you can make with paint and construction paper and then hang it up in your class. However, I am more elementary school centered, and this timetoast I would use for a secondary ed class. Little kids really like colorful, fun stuff that will be visual throughout the entire semester.

Wordle

I thought the Wordle presentation was good, clear and concise. It is an interesting thing, Wordle is, but I have to say that I do like the suggested, Tagxedo site better.
I love in Tagxedo you can choose different shapes and you still have all the other options of: max word count, choosing color and styles, copying an entire URL, etc. Another cool element of Tagxedo is the "Make A Gift" link located right below the workspace. It provides step-by-step on how to create a gift out of your word cloud.
Also, Tagxedo allows you to Save, Share and Print your word cloud. This is my tagxedo word cloud developed from my blog's URL.

I added this to my blog very easily, I tried to do the same with Wordle, and I couldn't figure it out :(

I love that it is free and you don't have to have a username and password!!!!

Glogster

Glogster reminded me a lot of myspace. And like the presenters pointed out, sometimes it is not an advantage to have so many options to choose from. I felt very overwhelmed and I didn't really want to stay on the pages or work on a glog. That type of thing just isn't for me. And if students had to create their own glog, it is a very high possibility that they would get distracted and focus more on decorating the page than the information they should be learning. Ya, it reminded me of myspace and I'm pretty sure people got pretty tired of that.
For teachers, I could see that glogs could be handy as a digital poster. If a teacher is short on time (or isn't very good with crafts to make a real poster) but still wants a visual aid for their students, then a glog would be an easy way for them to put information all on one page (poster).
I wouldn't suggest this website to young children because there is no way that you could monitor what they saw. Glogster is a public forum and people will put whatever they want. For example, I just went to the Glogster page and read some of the comments that people put and they were not appropriate for any student to read. I would definitely consider the GlogsterEd instead of the regular glogster.

Delicious Web 2.0

I thought that this was a cool resource to have. I am not very familiar with "bookmarking" but this makes more sense to me. This way, as a teacher, I can save links that I want to use in class and pull them up from the computer at school without having to lug my laptop everywhere with me. Actually, what I have been doing before is e-mailing websites to my utk account so that I can have them when I got to school lol. So, I will definitely use this in my future as a student and as a teacher. It is just so organizational and easy to access. I think that page's layout is straightforward and easy to navigate.

Storybird

My Web 2.0 is pretty cool and I have never seen anything like this before. It was so fun and cute and I love that it is a collaborative project. It is set up great for teachers and makes it easy for them to have supervision over their students and it is pretty step-by-step in the directions to set up.