This is a link to the blog that I read: http://www.edutopia.org/tech-savvy-summer. The title of the blog was How to Become More Tech Savvy This Summer by Jim Moulton. The title caught my eye because I really would like to spend some time this summer becoming more tech savvy. The author suggested that a good way to bring digital tools into your classroom is to first explore them and use them at home in your personal life. Once you discover how useful, fun, and easy they are, you will be more likely to find a way to use them within your education setting, whatever that may be.
Mr. Moulton shared his top ten suggestions for using technology. He suggested creating your own video vault by using Miro a website that allows you to download videos from sites like YouTube and TeacherTube and save them on your local hard drive. You load them on your flash drive and then it's "have videos, will travel" when you go to visit your friends and family!
Another thing that you can do is have fun with photos. Use BigHugeLabs.com to make posters, badges, trading cards and lots of other cool stuff. You can pass your creations on to family and friends and then use this tool as a way for your students to make content projects back at school in the fall.
Mr. Moulton shared many more great ideas, such as creating comics, whipping up a Wiki, forming a questionnaire, sharing snapshots, surveying situations, and even creating an audiobook to listen to while you are traveling in the car to your vacation destination! He shared ideas for personal use with each digital possibility, as well as how to transfer it to classroom use at the start of the school year. I can't wait to try out and explore these digital suggestions when summer gets here. They all sound like something that I would be able to use and also like something that would be alot of fun, too!
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