Reflection #4

Blockposters.com is a website that is fun for making large wall posters. It will divide your image into squares to print one large image into blocks.I had lots of fun playing with this website. You can choose how many blocks you want your image printed into, the orientation of the picture, and if you want it to have a border. The website will then tell you how high or wide it will be when printed out. This website is extremely easy to use and you can make a poster in a matter of minutes. As a teacher I do not see myself using this all the time, but could see myself using it every once in a while. You could use it to decorate a bulletin board to introduce a new unit with an image, or to blow up a large community art project. This is a website that would be in the learning portion of the TLC. You should all try it out!

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Block Posters

Reflection #3

Little Bird Tales is a great website that is great for making your own stories and bringing them to life. You can upload or create your own art for your title page and each page in your story. You can also record your own voice telling the story and add text. There are also other capabilities, but I see myself using this with my students to create their own stories to share with the class and their families. Other great options include being able to email and share your stories with others, and a ios app for the website as well. This would be included in the learning part of the TLC as it would be a great learning tool for literacy and writing. I think students would be excited and have a good time creating their own stories. It seems to be very easy t use and is a great resource. 

little bird tales

Reflection #2

Plan board is a great website for easy lesson planning. You can set up your class schedule and add in your lesson plans. You can also set reminders. It also has the capability to add multiple classes. They say it is the best way for teachers to organize their day. You can share you lessons and schedules with other colleges and take lessons with you anywhere if you have a iPhone or iPad. This is a great planning tool that would fit into the teaching part of our TLC. It looks very helpful and useful for teachers and may save them on prep time. 

The website takes a little bit of time to  learn completely and get the best use out of it, but once you have it figured out it seems pretty easy from there on out. It website has good versatility and different uses. I could see myself using this as a teacher to organize my day and keep up on what is coming up next. 

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Planboard

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Reflection #1 Blendspace

This website is a way to digitally collect and store content for lessons in one place, create interactive lessons to share with your class, and/or asses with digital quizzes. I found it most useful for lesson planning. It gives you the capability of dragging and dropping all of your lesson resources into one place. You can give each lesson a name and then drag and drop resources from just about anywhere. They make it easy to find and add your resources by having links on the site for searching Google, YouTube, Flickr, and Gooru. You can also search in the main search box and it will give you resources from all over the web. They have buttons to easily add a website, up load files or media, or insert from Dropbox or a GDrive. Something I was also impressed with and thought was useful is the button they have for Common Core standards. When you click on it you can search subject areas and grade level and it will bring up the Common Core standards for you. You can really save all of your worksheets, videos, lesson plans and so on for the topic all in one place to access at any time. You can share your Blendspace lessons with other teachers and collaborate together on them. You also are able to print your resources out. The website gives you the capability of having a class account that students can join and view materials you set up for them as well. I love how they have the website set up so that you can see all of your resources together at the same time. Overall, I think Blendspace is a great resource. 

Blendspace was very easy to use and figure out pretty quickly. I played with it for a while and created a trial lesson with many resources easily. I would consider this website to be versatile because you can use it for yourself only as a teacher to store all your resources for lessons in one place, or you can set it up as a classroom where students can join and then read and see resources you want them to. You also can use it to assess your students as they interact with the resources your provide them. I could definitely see myself using this website as a teacher. I would most likely use it in the capacity of bringing together all my resources for a lesson topic into one place and saving them for ease of use. 


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Blendspace




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