East Carolina University

We have a great group that meets each Thursday morning.

Our first class meeting, students reviewed articles focused on importance of technology in the classroom. We quickly discovered that the term technology is very broad and should be replaced with specific tools for specific tasks. For example, multimedia engages the learner; word-processing produces elegant documents; spell check ensures professionalism; cameras record images for storytelling; robots can build cars; magnetic strips withdraw money from the bank; and databases provide digital information.
For assignment 2, we will begin our professional blogs. We know this is our story and we will enhance the story with images, video, and hyperlinks to a rich variety of information. In my most recent blog, I began a story about Nicaragua.  Our class will write and publish many great stories and we will learn from each other through these stories.
Here I am working with a little girl in a small village library located near Granada, Nicaragua. The children have no books so donations through Amazon.com are appreciated. Missionary teams from the U.S. deliver the books because postal service is expensive and slightly unreliable.

We, as a class, learn by what we share. Eugene Peterson calls this the wisdom of each other.  I have a great resource call Sweet Search. Use this with your students for safe results when searching online for class assignments. Flippity.net is very useful for flashcards, spelling word organization, and other everyday kinds of tools. Kelly Priest is a graduate student in EDTC 6070. She reviewed this resource for a class assignment.
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Fippity http://flippity.net/

High School - Cross Curricular

Free

Usability - Students can create digital flashcards from a Google Sheet.  The site gives you the template you need to edit to create the flash cards.  Students can add pictures or media to the cards. For younger students, teachers could create the cards, but high school students could easily create their own flash card sets.  

Potential Uses - Test Prep, practice questions, vocabulary review when the template is complete, there are other activities that can be used for review as well.