http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:37:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today’s presentation showed me that there are a number of creative technologies out on the internet for students to use.  We first looked at Kerpoof, which is an internet site that students can join for free and create their own stories.  Students can select from a variety of different background ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/creative-technology/ Where do I start with Google Earth?  Google earth offers maps and satellite images of places all over the world.  There are so many interesting and useful features of this software.  I have used the direction feature a number of times to find where I am going. I had no ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/google-earth-%e2%80%93-see-the-world-and-beyond/ There is a whole range of search engines out there to help us find the information we are looking for.  So why is it that I have always just used Google? Am I too lazy to try other search engines or do I not know where to find them?  I'd ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/search-engines-web-innovations/ To engage a class of students over the age of 17 by simply giving them a clicker each is very promising so imagine how this would help engage a class of primary school children.  Today's presentation covered yet another innovation that I had never seen in action let alone heard ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/engaging-clickers/ Sharing photos online sounds a little risky, I mean who really wants people they don't know to view and comment on their pictures?  However, thanks to the presentation today we learnt that this was not the case.  Uploading your photos to sites such as flickr and photo bucket insures that ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/online-photo-sharing/ Who would have thought that something originally created for music can now do so much more.  iPods, a popular brand of portable media players, have literally taken over the music world.  Over time they have evolved from the simple small capacity iPods to advanced touch screen devices that can contain ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/ipods-and-mp3%e2%80%99s/ Learning about podcasts was interesting for me, as I hardly know anything about this innovation.  I've definitely heard about podcasts but have never used them before.  I now know that a podcast is an audio or video file, which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/popular-podcasts/ Sarah and I presented our innovation topic of SMART Boards this week.  I felt that our presentation went well and the majority of this ran smoothly apart from our video.  This would have been fine if we had downloaded this before the presentation, but you always need something to improve ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/08/interactive-classrooms/ From this presentation I can see how useful Google Docs can be for a class.  However, as the two presenters explained there are still many downfalls to using this innovation and they both agreed that they would not incorporate this into a classroom until many of the problems had been ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/08/the-future-of-group-work/ This week's presentation covered the topics of Facebook and Myspace and this was one of the first innovations that I felt I actually knew something about.  I was a little surprised when I heard that this was one of the topics, as I didn't feel that these innovations could be ... http://kateinnovation.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/online-friends/