Continuing Twitter and YouTube Adventure
This week, our assignment was to continue exploring Twitter and begin the YouTube Adventure. As far as Twitter goes, I will be honest that I do not feel much of an interest to log on. As I mentioned in my previous blog, it is convenient to log on through my iPhone. I have not once last week logged on through my desktop or laptop. I find the ease of access better through the iPhone app. I will say that I have been more noticing of the twitter logo. Twitter was pretty live during the Super Bowl. As I worked on my group project, I noticed that Prezi has a button to click to tweet the link to a presentation. To be completely honest, if Twitter was not a requirement for this class, I probably would log on a whole lot less frequently, just because it hasn't drawn me in and captured my attention so much.
As for YouTube, as I mentioned in the class discussion, I use YouTube on a daily basis every morning in my classroom. One requirement for the Head Start program is to have 30 minutes everyday of structured, "I am Moving, I am Learning" time. We like to find kids aerobics and other videos on YouTube, where our students can move along to the music and video of the children or participant on the screen. They love to watch the videos of the game, "Just Dance." Although this is a console game, and our students are really having absolutely no control of the game, they are able to move along with the avatar on screen. There favorite video is one posted by an elementary PE teacher who made up a work out to, "Watch me Whip, What me Nae Nae." Through the use of YouTube, our group was able to include links to demonstration videos on our Google doc. Just the way that videos have become so readily available has changed so many parts of education and life in general.
My favorite thing this week was using Google docs with my group members. This is the first time I have ever used an on-line tool that allows this type of collaboration. I was actually editing my portion of the document and could see one of my group members was logged on at the same time editing her portion. I was just a really cool way to be able to collaborate and work on a document with others simultaneously without having to be geographically or physically close. All we needed to accomplish this task was an internet connect. It blows my mind to see how far we have come since the original word processor software.
As for YouTube, as I mentioned in the class discussion, I use YouTube on a daily basis every morning in my classroom. One requirement for the Head Start program is to have 30 minutes everyday of structured, "I am Moving, I am Learning" time. We like to find kids aerobics and other videos on YouTube, where our students can move along to the music and video of the children or participant on the screen. They love to watch the videos of the game, "Just Dance." Although this is a console game, and our students are really having absolutely no control of the game, they are able to move along with the avatar on screen. There favorite video is one posted by an elementary PE teacher who made up a work out to, "Watch me Whip, What me Nae Nae." Through the use of YouTube, our group was able to include links to demonstration videos on our Google doc. Just the way that videos have become so readily available has changed so many parts of education and life in general.
My favorite thing this week was using Google docs with my group members. This is the first time I have ever used an on-line tool that allows this type of collaboration. I was actually editing my portion of the document and could see one of my group members was logged on at the same time editing her portion. I was just a really cool way to be able to collaborate and work on a document with others simultaneously without having to be geographically or physically close. All we needed to accomplish this task was an internet connect. It blows my mind to see how far we have come since the original word processor software.
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