New Idea

Here is the new widget I found to manage Twitter hashtags for Music Ed...... How much more powerful is this going to be?

Created by Guide to Online Schools

What will you change?

Today's reflection is about what I might do different this year in my classroom because of what I have experienced in my LTMS 600 WEb 2.0 tools class this summer. Well........I am feeling right now that I do not know. But I am going to make sure whatever I chose, that it will be focused on the students' learning, not just another new technological gimmick. I have really found it interesting that what the general education community seems to perceive as Web 2 experiences are really Web 1 learning options.

Having an Instrumental Music Classroom, my direct instruction is still face to face. But, I am very interested in making the Web 2 components that I do implement in my class into something, that will further the learning and encourage my kids to go "deeper" in their own practice. Big task - looking forward to it!!!!

Thanks for listening...

Day #4

What are some tools that you saw that would fit well with your instructional goals? Do you have any unanswered questions regarding the use of those tools? If you are pretty comfortable with one of the tools that you saw today, consider letting us know that in your blog post, so that others might contact you with their "how-to" questions.

I am still deciding what would fit best with my educational goals. I would love for my students: to improve their personal performance, to increase their productivity while practicing at home, and ultimately to be able to perform selected works in a large group. I am leaning toward a tool like google docs to tie together a lot of class information, including surveys and game results from the other LTMS I am taking this summer. But I am not 100% set on that tool. I still need to make sure that something like Edmodo does not fit the bill better.

I do feel like I am trying to digest too much information at once, and just need to stop and breathe for a minute or two...

Looking forward to tomorrow's discussion..

Goodnight!