Friday, February 5, 2010

FIELDTRIP!!!!


Today, in class, we went to the YETC. I have been there before, but I think that I got a lot more out of it this time. We learned about all of the books and materials that we can check out, and all the resources that are available. We also learned about many amazing resources for teachers, or really anyone!!! Some of these, were Storyline Online, Xmind, Spelling City, Stellarium, and Zotero, for Mozilla Firefox. Storyline Online is a website that has many children's books, and movie stars read to you.....great fun!! X mind is a really cool program that you can map out ideas, and help children brainstorm with words and pictures. Spelling City is a great website that children can use to put in their spelling words in, and their are games and different practices to help them learn the words, and have fun while doing it. Stellarium is awesome!!! It is a program that allows you to see the constellations and different galaxies from where you live. It's especially cool that you can make it so your screen isn't very bright, take it outside, and actually see in the sky what you see on the screen. Zotero is program that helps you organize different websites and it automatically does bibliographies for you, and it saves a lot of information.
I am so excited to use these, and many other educational things that are out there!!! I know that it is definitely something that I'm going to use in the classroom, and most likely just for fun!!!

4 comments:

  1. I think that the Storytelling website that has the movie stars read is so much fun! I agree I know that I will use the endless resources provided by the YETC in my teaching career but also to have fun for me!!

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  2. did you have any particular sites that you found more exciting than others? or ones that you might try out in your practicum soon?

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  3. I really like the webbing site he showed us! Wish I had known about it soon for some assignments I've had.
    Stellarium is way neat. I used it in an astronomy class I took and it's such a great tool to teach about constellations and stars.

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  4. I as well loved the resources that are available to us! They will be very helpful through school as well as when we have our own classroom!

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