Goggle Drawing

I have never used any drawing tools before so this was my first experience using a drawing tool. I found it to be interesting and had to mess with the tools a great deal. I liked how I was able to use the picture as the background. I think this activity would fall under the ISTE NETS T standard 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity. The students were allowed to use the program to create a drawing and be as creative as they wanted. This required the students to think about what they wanted the drawing to show and how they wanted they drawing to display the information. The tools allowed students to be creative in the way they displayed the information as well.

Glogster

Glogster

The link to my glog is here. A glog is away for someone to express themselves and their feelings through text, images, music, and video. It also allows you to share your glog with your friends so they can see how you are feeling. You don't even have to use words to show your feelings, almost like a poster can say alot without any words.
You could use a glog in your classroom to have the students introduce themselves to the class and then to express their feelings when they feel like. You could also use a glog as a form of a journal in your classroom.
I feel this activity would fall under the ISTE NETS T standard 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity. This activity uses technology to allow students to express themselves in a creative way.
The only problem I could see with using a glog in the classroom is that students can put whatever they want on the glog and certain things would be inappropriate for a classroom or even against school policies. If a teacher was to use this program they would have to have a way to limit what the students put on their glogs.

Self Portrait

I used the website picasohead to create my self portrait.When I created this image I had problems because I couldn't find an images that looked like my features so I had to chose the one that I felt looked most like them. I used some color because I felt it gave the image a touch of my personality. I think if people are suppose to make an image that looks a lot like them there needs to be more options of features to chose from. I'm not sure if I did this correctly, but if you click on the first link it will take you to my self portrait.

Lerning Styles Inventory

After taking the learning styles test VARK, I thought my results described me because I learn differently depending on the situation. There are some things that I need to see a demonstration for and others I just need to read the directions for. I think it is interesting to take the test, so I had my husband take it as well. I was surprised because his results were different then mine. He had a much higher score in the visual category, which proves eveyone learns differently. My results were:
Visual-2
Aural-5
Read/Write-12
Kinesthetic-9

Snipping Tool

I chose to snip the section on google reader that allows you to add a web site to your reader account. I thought this would allow me to add web sites to my reader account more easily and remind me how to add them. I found the snipping tool to very interesting and I know I will continue to use it. I have already shown my sister and my best friend how to use it.

Voice Thread

I found this activity to be very interesting because I've never seen a voice thread before. I don't own a webcam yet, but I'm going to buy one today. I usually talk to all my relatives and friends on facebook, but the webcam and voice thread will give me the opportunity to see them as well. I really enjoyed hearing the people talk about the picture of the mother and her five children. The photo reminds me of one taken of my grandmother and her children.
I think the activity would fall under ISTE NETST T 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. First, we watched a video about how to use a voice thread and then Dr. Pierce created one for us to comment on. This showed that he knew how to use and create a voice thread and then allowing us to comment on it gave us the opportunity to be creative in our responses as well.