Reflection

My favorite tools are:
• Google Doc
• Skype
• Video Resources
I chose them as my favorites because they are very interactive and I am sure they will keep the students focus and engage.
I will keep in mind that technology needs to be part of my tutorials, and also it is essential to support students and teachers in the classrooms. All our teachers have a variety of technology for everybody involve in classrooms in a daily basis provided by the district. I think this is wonderful and should keep going. SBISD is doing an incredible job keeping our students informed about new technology elements and integrating them into the classrooms and libraries.
I would say that the unexpected outcome for me was to see how beneficial these tools can be in our classrooms and the positive impact that they are going to have for our students. Also, I realized that I need to be all the time taking at look at all the new things we are having in our world to make our life easier.

Tool#11

I believe that these are important points to review and discuss with our students:
• Respect copyright.
• A guide with a list of web sites by subjects.
• Not everything that you find is necessarily true.
• Respect other people’s posts or comments.
• Read carefully all instructions
• Be nice when you post a comment in other people’s blog.
• Remember that a lot of people can see what you post.
• Be a creative as you can.
• Not everything is free on the internet.
• We are very lucky teachers and students for having all these resources and technology in our rooms. Please let’s take care of them.

Tool#10

I found really good apps for primary students. They can trace letters, produce letters, draw, find flash cards for vocabulary, and more. It's great. These are some of the apps that I would use: ICanWrite, Etch A Sketch, Comic Touch and ABA Flash Cards.

Also, for our intermediate grades there is fun too. These are the ones that I liked: NASA, Science Book, Math Drills Lite and USA presidents. I can keep naming apps. This is incredible. I did not know that my son will have all this technology available for him to learn.

Tool#9

Jing is a fantastic program. Teachers can create videos and direct download them to YouTube. Also, we can use it to review lessons. The only thing that we have to take into consideration is that we only have 2 GB of storage.
Skype is awesome to communicate with people even if they are far away. For example, in my case would be awesome to chat or call my family in Venezuela for free. Wooooooow!!!! I also think that it would be fantastic to let our student'parents know about this resource. A big percentage of our students have family in other countries, it would be good to teach our students how to use it, and so they can teach their parents and family members.

Tool#8

This is a great tool for me as an interventionist to help teachers finding resources and for my interventions and tutorials. It is a fun way for our students to learn.
I believe that music and movements should be part of classrooms’ routines, specially the primary grades. Students love dancing and singing and they can learn songs very easily, this is why I looked for videos with a topic reinforced by singing. These are two videos that I found:







Source: www.schooltube.com

Tool#7

I usually use power point presentations when I am teaching my lessons. I have never thought about this. I believe that this is going to become my new resource to reinforce my lessons. I really like to go the extra mile and create new ways for my students to understand new concepts, reteach or just review them and the photostory is just perfect for that.

Tool#6

I think that wikis will be really good for our students, specially because they can share information, add and edit it. I believe that wikis can be used for shared writing. It would be so fun for the students, they really love computers and everything related to technology. I can see them very focused typing and having a great time exploring this.