Sunday, February 20, 2011

District Wide Information

SocialBooks - I continue to read and follow new aspects inregard to ereaders and ereading.  The following link is an app coming soon to The App Store.  The premise of this is being able to read a book together with a friend or in an online book club and share reactions to the story or making notes or highlighting excerpts with those reading online too.  This is a way to make ereading social.  Check out the video found on this site to learn more about SocialBooks! (This is a YouTube video so you will need to access it outside of school.) http://www.getsocialbooks.com/ 

The Committed Sardinehttp://www.fluency21.com/blog.cfm 

his blog offers many topics related to what is happening in the news in relation to technology, articles of the history of technology, technology and education, and much more including a recent article titled "How To Use YouTube at School, Safely.  http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1720  This article presents a new free website called VuSafe that lets educators search for relevant video content from YouTube and other sources.  Read this article to find out more about this new resource to allow you, as an educator, to integrate YouTube videos into your classroom.
Why the "committed sardine?"  Check out the left side of the blog with the link to committed sardines http://www.fluency21.com/sardines.cfm

2 comments:

Brian Jones said...

this is an interesting concept and when applied to schools could reshape the way that we approach and think about things. We sort of already do this with the way that we rent out our buildings to various groups. What if we did the same for staff. RentAPrincipal.com or rentATeacher.com. I might be onto something!

Mrs. Peterson's Blog said...

Neat blog . . . I subscribed to it. I also enjoyed the bit on the ereader. Both Jacob and I are really enjoying ours. :)