GPS

Some difficulties we experienced were ending up on the wrong side of a building. Others consisted of finding the cache once we arrived in the area. Those seemed to be really the only problems. This sort of activity can definitely be used with geography, any treasure hunting activities (these can be used to hide pieces of a puzzle for a research project, etc).

Delicious

Using Delicious in the classroom can be as simple as a tool for storing a collection of specific websites for a certain project, to an online scavenger hunt. I may consider using Delicious in the classroom to provide a simple list of links for my students to use while researching a specific subject. I can also see this being used as a tool for WebQuests, using the same method as previously described.

MyDelicious

Zotero

Zotero makes citing the internet a breeze. You use this program to document information you find on the net for projects or personal use. There are options to not only bookmark sites, but to add notes and tags to give yourself a better way to be organized.

Google Sketchup study area

Twitter

Twhirl

Twhirl is a desktop client for Twitter. This application gives you updates of your Twitter friends on your desktop.







image source http://www.twhirl.org/

Reflection

What? 

This WebQuest is a collaborative project for students from second to fourth grade who are researching a particular set of seven lizards.

So What?

I haven't yet had the opportunity to use this in the classroom, but the information is all there in the WebQuest and, if directions are followed thoroughly, I see little reason why it shouldn't work out.

Now What?

Like anything new, it may and will need some tweaking here and there. I look forward to making these adjustments, seeing as how adjustments build character and repetior.

Fellow EdTech Seeker

Searching the net for people who write about technology in educational settings, I came across A Geekymomma's Blog.

From what i've seen, this woman's goal is to seek out and provide anyone who's looking with new options for using technology in the classroom. Her blog also has a few personal notes on it and shows much of her personal opinion which is based off her own experience with the technology at hand. She relates much of her writing to the theme of the blog and provides links to the neccessary places she wants you to go to. While writing the post, she makes sure to link all the neccessry links when talking of different or related topics. She enjoys her blog. On average, she has at least one posting per week.