Ed 270 Final Project!

Final Project Website!

Facebook in the classroom?

Guide to using facebook in the classroom- Useful tips for creating teacher appropriate facebooks


How to use social-networking technology for learning- Tips and explanations for social-networking in the classroom


Technological lesson plans -example lesson plans for all grade levels 

Information literate

Being information literate to me means that we must know how to find, and know what constitutes valid and appropriate information. It is important that we inform our students on what these constitutions are. There are many sites and ways to find such information, it is just a matter of taking the time to find it and utilize it to inform our students. We must do our best to prepare our students for searching the web and deciding what information they find valid, however there is so much invalid information out there we can never fully protect them form the in-validities that the web holds.

Archive of the Web!- shows you history of websites and how to identify validity


if you go to google or altavista.com and put in link: and then the link to the site and it will show everything that is linked to the site 

Posting, sharing, converting videos

Podbean.com and vodpod.com allow you to easily post podcasts


keepvid helps you save videos to your computer


mediaconverter.org allows you to convert videos so you can use them on an array of sites 


formatfactory is a program you download and is free and allows you to convert file types 

How To Podcast

Teaching through cell phones?

Mobile learning is an emerging and controversial issue arising in today's society however cell phones in classrooms can be utilized rather than punishing students for using them, because we all know it is inevitable.
Teachers can use cell phone communication for a variety of things
   -communicating homework
   -communicating with parents
   -taking surveys in class
   -students ask the teacher questions
   -so much more, the possibilities are almost endless, its a matter of being creative.


Obviously mobile learning is going to pose some problems. Students will misuse their privileges with their phones, they may send inappropriate things, over use their phone freedom. But they would do these things anyway! So why not give them the opportunity to experiment with this new form of teaching, it would just be necessary to implement many rules and restrictions associated with phone use.


I want to teach high school history, so if i were to use cell phones in the classroom I would probably use it to take surveys, or even one answer pop quizes where they could text me their answer rather than waste paper. I could even use it if they have any questions throughout the class that they are afraid to answer. And also i could use it to remind them about homework and communicate with parents, for good or bad reasons haha.


In my classroom I may use one of the websites below to send out text notifications about when projects and papers are coming up.
I might use that application to also take surveys at the beginning of each new topic to see what the students already know.
Also, I could have students who are afraid to ask questions during a lecture, send me a text so that I can address a question without them standing out or getting embarrassed.
The possibilities are growing!




...and i believe our podcast is being posted on Lindsay's page! 

Cell phones in the classroom?!

Texting in class!- a site that helps you communicate through texting by sending messages to parents and students from your computer

Another use of texting!-another site that allows you to use texting to communicate

Blog on cellphones in the classroom

Multimedia in Ed.

Due to my unbelievably busy lifestyle and lack of through reading I am posting about the use of multimedia a week late, however I do believe it is important to address the significance of the use of  multimedia in the classroom. I have had to make few videos for assignments in classes and when I did i did not have the technology to do so. However these technologies are becoming a lot more readily available and it would be great to be able to use them for educational purposes. From the teaching perspective, teachers could make videos and podcasts to teach certain subjects and mix up teaching styles straying away from the boring old power points. They could also then assign assignments to make videos for the class rather than having the students use poster boards and power points, that are both progressively going out of style.