Thing 13 - Google Earth

My house:
http://screencast.com/t/t2PRXMvd

My favorite place on earth... Fenway Park

http://screencast.com/t/TEcQG6000

Thing #10

In Progress... Playing around with VoiceThread... I know I need to get with it, when my 4th grader already has an account on Voice Thread!

http://voicethread.com/share/1544898/    Still trying to work out the details, but I will get it tomorrow!

Thing #9 Part 2

I have uploaded my photo to Picasa for anyone to see...

http://picasaweb.google.com/jsalasky3/FieldDay2010#

After the editing was done, I played around with Aviary and FotoFlexer.  So fun!

Here's the list of more free imaging stuff out there:

FreeFoto: http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
Pics4Learning: http://www.pics4learning.com/
Public Domain Photo Database Photo: http://www.pdphoto.org/
Public Domain Photos: http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
Flickr Free Use Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse

Thing #9 Part1

Before editing... http://screencast.com/t/4HtcEuki

This is a picture of some of the kids in my daughters 3rd grade class last spring at their field day.  I am going to crop the picture and put text on the photo before I send it out to her teacher.

After editing:  http://screencast.com/t/J3uuJcfXb

I used the crop feature to zoom in some on the kids in the class.  Then I also used the text feature to type a title on the picture.  The last editing I did was to lighten the photo up so you were able to see the background a bit better.

I'm not real sure that I will use the digital images much in my math classroom, but only time will tell.   I do enjoy playing around with photos and sharing my creations with other friends.  I'm going to try the "Aviary" site to see what that's all about too!

Thing #7

OK, I could do this for about 8 hours, but time doesn't permit right now... so I have a start.

I will plan on working on this site a little at a time.  I will start by updating my lesson plans weekly.

The web-site is: http://mathfordawgs.weebly.com/

I am very excited to include new links for my students and include pdfs of worksheets for them to re-print at home in the event of  them misplacing their original.

This screenshot shows the start of the site pages:  http://screencast.com/t/9dJd5ANz

Thing 5 #4

Ooops, lost this once already... The NetTrekker read aloud feature seems to be good for text that is already typed, but the problem is that in a math lesson there are many times problems that have been typed in some type of equation editor and the problem does not get read.  The directions get read, but not the problem.  The nice thing with the vozMe is that I can type the directions and the problem with the words typed in the way it should be read.  I'm not sure if Jing is suppose to capture the reading of the text, but it did not...

Here is the link to the recoding: http://screencast.com/t/vceQmAweIqH

Thing5 #3

Wow, I can't believe all the on-line stuff out there for math!!!  I'm so excited.  I keep bookmarking and bookmarking.  I should have my data projector in my room all set after Christmas and I plan to use several of these links to show things in class in a "new" way.  I also will have a web-site for my students to find links to help them with material we have been covering in class.  I have to move on or I'd spend all day just playing around on these sites.  I found this link very useful: http://www.emathematics.net/index.php.  I will use it will both my FST classes and my Algebra class.  I know that I have students who are missing the whole first week of Chapter 4 in my FST.  This is a chapter all about trigonometry and this web-site has a great set of videos that I can recommend my students watch for help before they try and do the homework.  I can't wait to play around more with these links!