Symbaloo Website for Masterpiece Project

Well, I created the website for the masterpiece project and now we are diligently working to add sites to each strand.  Dr. Heigle had mentioned adding guidance for the sites so that parents and students would know the function of each site.  I am not sure about how we could do this.  Any suggestions?  There are going to be many sites and I am unaware of any way to add information about sites on Symbaloo.  I will keep everyone posted.

Here is the link to the site: http://www.symbaloo.com/

Masterpiece Project and Google Docs Discussion

I was so excited and proud of myself for creating a smaller discussion group on Google docs for our masterpiece project.  I have said this many times before, but it seems that every week I learn how to do something new with technology and I am becoming very proficient in using different tools.  I just spoke with Jason and it seems that we have decided to create a Symbaloo site that includes all of the middle school science strands.  We are envisioning a site that has resources for both parents and students that can be used by all middle school students.  I am soo excited about creating this site and being able to provide this to my incoming 6th graders and science team members.  Since I am more familiar with Symbaloo I will be setting up the site and both Jason and I will be working together to add simulations and high quality websites.  I will keep everyone posted through my blog.  Let me know if anyone has suggestions about making this Symbaloo for our masterpiece project.

Symbaloo and Weebly

I haven't blogged for about a week, but I have been busy working on the projects for my two classes.  I wanted to write about the success I have had with using two of the web 2.0 tools that I learned about this quarter.  For my teacher leadership class I was assigned an action research project and decided to incorporate a web 2.0 tool into this project.  I had my team at school complete a survey monkey to show a need for a common website that we could all use and add to with our favorite websites.  The team agreed that this would be a great idea and I started the Symbaloo website.  Here is the link to the website: http://www.symbaloo.com/

The other web 2.0 tool that has been a huge success is the weebly website that I created for parents and students.  In just one week I have over 100 hits to my website!!!  The parents and students have found it helpful to have the plan for the week posted to the site along with the homework information.  I have discovered weebly to be very user-friendly and have suggested it to many of my colleagues.  Well, that's all for now!