C4T #3

For C4T #3, I commented on Kelly Tenkely's blog. She has tons of information on learning through technology.

Comment 1
For comment one, Ms. Tenkely created a post on Tagible which is a customized video learning channel. Tagible allows teachers, or anyone else who is interested, to create your own little site to manage videos. Tagible is great for teachers who want to separate their videos into categories for easy access. If you are creating videos of your kids, you can simply add a tag to the videos with the child's name of who it belongs to. This allows you to be able to find that video easily. I commented and said that this tool sounds useful and interesting. I said that teachers are using more technology, along with sharing it with the world. This seems like something that I would use in my future classroom.

Comment 2
The next post I commented on was about Google Story Builder. Gogle Story Builder is sort of like watching someone type a document in a video. To me, it is sort of like watching a writer type out the words to his novel and watching him delete his thoughts and rewrite them until he gets them right. Some examples Ms. Tenkely gave for the use of this are book reports and learning about historical figures. This isn't just watching yourself type something out, but you can add a character as if that person is the one typing it out. You can see a video that Ms. Tenkely made called Earth: Center of the universe?. I commented and said that this was a really cool tool to use. I told her that I thought this might be a useful tool for students to write a short story or a poem and look back at their video to see the changes they made while writing. This would allow students to think about the changes they made and why they made them.