Even though we can't meet in person, you can share your classrooms through a virtual tour.
During the next two weeks, you should be working on a virtual classroom tour. This assignment has two goals. First, all of us will get a sense of the wide variety of schools and classrooms represented in our Virtual Institute. Secondly, I would like each of you to play around a bit with using technology as a means of publishing writing and sharing your classroom. Your tour should include several photos with captions or narration.
After you have taken pictures and written about your classroom, pick a specific place to share your work. You can create a blog like mine through Blogger; you can create a website like the one on which I have put the assignments; or you can create a PowerPoint and share it with us on Google Docs at docs.google.com . The Google options are free and relatively user friendly.
Each venue has a brief tutorial about how to use it most effectively.
If you already have a website or Blog, you can place your tour there and share the link with us by responding to this post. If all this technology drives you crazy, please just send me a PowerPoint, and I share it with others. The most important part of the assignment. after all, is sharing your classroom with the rest of our class.
Caitlin has already finished her tour and published it on her Blog which is on WordPress, another place you might consider putting yours. She has done an outstanding job. I am posting hers as a model; however, I don't expect all of you to have one with this much detail. I am sure you will enjoy her photos and accompanying narration. This is a link to Caitlin's tour.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Here's the link to my classroom tour:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dd9wxxp_1fwv38c93
Wow! Two good examples as models are now up. Keep 'em coming!
Great classroom tour. I haven't posted much yet due to time requirements for a district grant and next year's budget.
I provide library service to 15 school libraries and 220 school teachers. This alone can keep me moving, but to add to that, this year we had two new school added. Neither of these schools had a full time library in the past two years. It has been a very busy time.
My link is to the library blog that I have in the district. I will be adding pages like this to it over the next couple of weeks. At one point it was the goal to do one for each media tub that I have. Right now I have narrowed that down to getting the writing tubs online.
If there is anything anyone can think of that would be a good addition, I would be thrilled to hear about it. I thought I could pair up with someone else in my district, but no one else is taking this class.
Here is the blog page that I finished today. More to be coming soon.
http://bssd.org/library/?page_id=9
Here is the link to my classroom tour. If you have any thoughts on how to lay things out better, please let me know! Enjoy!
http://docs.google.com/Present?docID=dgd9mn83_23g8chtwcj&revision=_latest&start=0&theme=blank&cwj=true
Well the blog will not recognize the HTML code so that you could click and link, so here is the address the hard way.
http://docs.google.com/
Presentation?id=dhc577pp_0g3gx9mnw
I was able to see Jan's great tour but not Marlie's. I think you have to either make the document public or grant permission to each of us. I have requested permission. Jan, it does look cold! Can I wait until a little later to visit?? Your colorful classroom is a cheerul contrast to the all the snow outside.
Here's a link to my blog where I posted a movie I made of my classroom.
http://windows7.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-classroom.html
Let's try this again...Sondra let me know if the formatting is all messed up, I can e-mail it to you.
http://docs.google.com/Present?docID=dgd9mn83_23g8chtwcj
Hey, I truly enjoyed Caitlin's tour and thanks Sondra for the posting because now I have a better idea of what I can do. I'll try to email my techy John and get him to help me figure out how I can send something your way by Wednesday or Thursday. JJ
My virtual tour is at
http://hallclassroom.blogspot.com/
Here is the a first stop on my virtual tour. It is a blog post with a movie from a day in the life of my classes at North Pole High School.
http://janet-jahn.blogspot.com/2009/03/virtual-tour-1.html.
Here is the location of my classroom virtual tour. Enjoy!
http://docs.google.com/
Presentation?id=ddr482ft_0cwjqdgz8
Here's the second installemnt in my Virtual Tour:
http://janet-jahn.blogspot.com/2009/03/virtual-tour-2.html
Here's the link to my classroom tour:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=ddqdvgf4_1fwwbsccx&hl=en
En Joy, Sandy
Ok, here's the link to my classroom tour. Well, it's not a link, but you know. This is good for me because I want to be more tech-savvy, but I don't do it unless I'm forced. Let's hope it works!
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dcqmtt7_2fns92zfc
I just tried to look at Sandy's link through Google docs, and it said I don't have permission to look at it. I could see Robert's, however. Can someone try looking on mine to see if I set it to public? I'm not sure if I did it right.
Alrighty, so here goes something...nothing...nothing special? Oh well, at any rate here is my class blog:
http://campbellroom505.blogspot.com/
Here is Molly's Tour link! She uses a wiki.
http://mollyms.pbwiki.com/
Here is the link to my presentation :O)
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfjw2xsn_27fh499vg5
JJ—Your students look so focused. It must be a great assignment. Nice computers. Did your school go with the one-to-one program from Apple? Thanks for the Turnitin.com site. dc
Debbie- What kind of computers do you have in your classroom? Your room looks so nice and airy, and I’m not just talking about the last slide! How many students do you have in any one class period? It looks like a great learning environment. dc
Here is a link to my Virtual Tour:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-ZS1c7BqZy-dUZCaXh2ZEhqN1E/edit?usp=sharing
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