it is wonderful experience to use story bird tool.. i work with my daughters to create our fun story.. they choose the pictures, and write it with me .... i think this tools really useful to students to enhance their creativity to make their own story and choose their own sitting and characters..
this my Story ..... enjoy
http://storybird.com/books/the-happy-family-136/

Visual Learning Tools

This week me and my group work in three web tools includes ( Animoto, Digital Story Telling, Image Editing & Enhancement). It was fun to work with students in all the tools and show them how that works. I really enjoy using Animoto and Digital Story Telling before, but editing & enhancement is a new tool to use and I like the idea of do not have to make your own account. I think I can use these tools in classroom with my students to enhance using technology. However, it is useful tools to present your lesson plan in front of your kids or use it in history class so you can make your students choose their topic and find their pictures and download it with music. it is wonderful idea to enhance students to research their interested topic and fund the information after that they can create their video and show it to their peers.   

Norah Alsana

i like this link. it showa the Civics Final Animoto Project, it made by Animoto tool it is good tool to present your class topic, so i want to share it with you, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLuXNtsXvA

Ch. # 5 Planning: Content to questions, Questions to Skills

Ch. # 6 Using technology in Partnering

It was wonderful experiences to me working this week with my group to create the questions and share it with the class. However, the most amazing is reading the students work and send them comment and feedback about their answers. I really enjoy reading my classmates answers and their suggestions about using technology in classroom.

I learned from these two chapters how to make your guiding questions that related to your topic and give the students the opportunity to research and find the information about that. This kind of strategy helps to enhance the students to learn. I really agree with many of my classmate when they show us different example to their lesson plan and how they include or assume using technology as a part of the class lesson.

I want to thanks all my classmates about their answers and their feedback to us as a group after we response to them and especially to Roberta. Because she gives me a wonderful example of how assume of having technology in your classroom and this is the link: http://learni.st/learnings/58457-notes-from-mcteach-learning-to-blog-using-paper?board_id=6736

summer

this is example of my Animoto summer

3         ways to use social network in classroom:

·         I would use twitter, reminding students about their homework assignment, educational blogs that maybe interested and related to their learning subject, or learning hashtags that would be useful in their learning process.   

·         I would use Facebook but it not allowed using it in my country school districts. However, if there is any chance to use it I will apply some educational games to enhance the students’ motivation of learning.

·         I would enhance the students curiosity  to find ways or their ways  to use social network in class lesson  and will making sure that would be access from their school district to work on it.       

Thinking people and passions rather than classes and content

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Always be real not just relevant

From these two unites I learned different things:

First: know the passions and the interest of your students to learn and apply it in your lesson plan. As show to me many students like to use technology and try to show their knowledge in class in front of their peers, so it would be good idea to Guide them in their topic and enhance their technology knowledge to search and find their information. I read article about teacher who work to enhance his students’ lack of writing academic skills by knowing their passion. He asked students to find their interest topic and write their questions about the topic after that writing their research. It is wonderful idea because he knows that student would apply all his/her know to improve the work.

In addition, the iteration, many instructors/teachers made their lesson plans with the same movement. I mean maybe he started with presenting the class after that answers student questions which is bored to students. It is good idea to know your key of iteration and enhance it and apply many things could make the class more interested to students.    

Moreover, as partnering try to living out the teacher roles by coach, guide, or instructional expert. All this difference selects should be choosing depending to your ability and goals as a teacher and your students’ passion and interested.

 Lastly, as a teacher try to make your subjects related to the reality of the student life. For instance, try to make a group of students have the same topic interest work to gather so they can use their knowledge and connect it with their lives.