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Thing 1: Blogging
My name is Sarah Jones. Previously I taught health at Southside High School in Elmira. I was a ninth grade teacher there for eight years. I made the jump to Library Media Specialist last year. I...
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Option 3: Veteran TweetersWhile in no way do I consider myself a veteran tweeter, I chose this option because I've had a twitter account for several years, but apparently have not really used it to...
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Thing 3 : Photo Sharing
I have to start out this post by admitting that I am a photo addict. I have thousands and thousands of photos, mostly of my children. I have been known to spend hours editing, creating photo projects,...
View ArticleThing 4: RSS, Personal Home Pages and Feed Readers
When Google Reader was killed off (which I was VERY distraught about), I struggled to find a replacement. I gave Feedly a shot, but for some reason found it confusing. Now that I've been forced to...
View ArticleThing 5: Digital Storytelling & Presentation Tools
Here is my first attempt at a Moov using Moovly, an online digital presentation tool to help you create "common craft style" videos. I stumbled upon this after we created common craft style videos with...
View ArticleThing 6: Curation Tools
I had been using Pinterest personally for about two years before I came to the realization that it also had the potential to be a very powerful educational tool as well (sometimes I'm a little slow on...
View ArticleThing 7: Podcasting and Screencasting
This week we were told to check out some web tools for screencasting and podcasting. I have used many of the tools for screencasting for professional use before. I was excited to learn of the online...
View ArticleThing 8: Collaborating, Connecting, Sharing
This week we are blogging about our experience with online collaboration and sharing tools. This is very fitting as I am currently using Google Drive to collaborate with another teacher to plan a unit...
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Thing 9: Databases & Search Tools
Databases: Several times a year, I offer voluntary professional development to staff. Recently, I presented a training focusing on the databases. The name of the training was "Finding Grade-level, Non...
View ArticleThing 10: Productivity
The two tools I chose to experiment with were Diigo and Evernote.Evernote took me a while to get the hang of. I could not figure out how to add images to notes for the life of me. I will need to play...
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