My last blogpost I talked about ClassParrot and how I use it to communicate with my students. I absolutely love this tech tool. However I am using more tech in my classroom this year than I ever have. I was able to get a smartphone and that has helped me get more interested in using technology in the classroom. Here are some tools that I use and how I use them. I use Dropbox a ton. I have the DropBox app on my smartphone and, as you may know, there are certain times where we have a picture or a diagram that you would like to show the kids, well all I have to do is take a picture on my smartphone and move it to my dropbox folder. Then it magically appears in my desktop dropbox folder where I then can then display it on the projector for all to see.
I use DropBox on my home computer and school computer where I keep all the files that I am working on and no matter where I am at, I always have access to those files. Death to ThumbDrives.
DropitToMe.com is also a tool that I am starting to use. This site allows you to have your students upload the files they are working on to your DropBox folder. This saves time and energy, no more having the students email their projects to you. They just upload them and they are in your DropBox folder.
I love Professional Development. And I try to get PD anytime that I can, and the tool that allows me to get great PD for free is Twitter. Twitter allows you to connect to people who care about the same things as you. I have tweeps all over the world from the UK to Austrailia to many places in the U.S. I can talk all day about what I have learned on twitter, but that's a whole new blog. These are just some of the tools and how I use them in my room. More to come later.
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