Comic Life technology assignment

In our Instructional Technology class, we had a to take pictures of right angles and take those pictures to create a "scrapbook page" using the software Comic Life. It's a great program and very easy to use. I think kids would have a blast using this software. I can't quite figure out how to add a picture of the scrapbook page, but once I figure it out, I'll post a picture.

Mind42.com concept map

Mind42 is software that can be used to create concept maps. I made a Children's Literature Genres concept map using this software. This was also really easy to use, but I thought the fishbone concept map was a lot more interesting to look at than the Mind42 concept map. But overall, both were quite easy to use.

Children's Literature Genres Fishbone Concept Map

Here is a concept map that I created from XMind. It is a fishbone concept map of children's literature genres. It was really fun and interesting to create and quite easy. I thought XMind software was very user friendly (especially for someone who is as technologically inept as me). I also liked how the fishbone design is different than a regular concept map design. I'm excited to try using it for other projects.

kid's lit blog

Here is a link to a kid's lit blog that Anne Diekema (USU Instructional Technology 4010 instructor) posted on a discussion. It looks like an interesting site where they review all sorts of children's literature.

Wikis

In our Instructional Technology class 4010 we learned about wikis. I am including a link to the wiki that our teacher created. I added a new post about long-haired dachshunds and child piano prodigies. And I am including the link to the wiki that I created. (Fun Favorite Recipes).

Ideas to Put on My Classroom Blog

Here are ideas that I would like to include in my classroom blog:
class pictures, calendars, lunch menus, field trip notices and pictures, birthday news, book reviews, spelling lists, vocabulary lists.

My First Podcasts

I will be reading the stories Sheila Rae, The Brave and Owen by Kevin Henkes on podcast. I also included a short podcast of the book Setting Limits in the Classroom Revised: How to Move Beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today's Classrooms by Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.