I know now that making an imovie is something I can do to add to my teaching.

I am so impressed with flickr! It is so much better then the google way of looking for pictures. I see myself using this program often, not only for writing ideas, but for my social studies/science lessons as well. It is a great tool to use for ELA students, but I wish I could also have the pictures in the slide show labeled.

I came here today knowing there were some differences between the learning of boys and girls. I now realize the importance of differentiation in writing. I will confer with my teammates and hopefully put some changes in my writers workshop.

Visual Literacy adds depth and meaning for all learners, especially for boys.

Flicker is awesome and I look forward to using it, especially as visual cues for my ELL students.

I really enjoyed learning how to use Flickr to set up slide shows to spark better writing. I think it will be very motivating for my students.

Can't wait to use Flickr to inspire my students to write. My hope is that using real life pictures will inspire connections and great writing.

Everything we learned today has me thinking....I really enjoyed Flickr!

I look forward to using many of the programs taught today in my class this year. I think the use of technology will really engage my students.

I am very impressed with Flicker! I can't wait to use a slide show showing the life cycle of the butterfly as well as have a discussion on symmetry.

I love the fact that I can transfer my tray of pictures from Flickr & create a slide show onto iphoto. I can't wait to show it to my students!!

Great to learn about flicker, have set up a time to try it. Very interesting to be aware of differences with learning styles and brain activities for boys and girls.

I am excited to use this with my students. I have several "boy challenges" and we need help.

I can make a slide show for my class!

I realized today that I need to start small- I can't incorporate everything I learned today, but I think starting with one project when I return to the classroom this week is good start.

I am very excited to use Flickr! I have found it very difficult in the past to find appropriate pictures for my lessons. I think this site will be very helpful and will hopefully make some of my lessons more creative.

I am so excited about being able to make picture files for my students to use with writing. Also to use the video clips! I found some great ones to go with our "Matter" science unit we are doing right now.

I will set up sequencing lessons using Inspiration. I love having familiar books on the CD to sequence into beginning, middle and end for my kindergartners. Great visuals!

I think the slide show would be great for building background knowledge for my students.

I love the great ideas for using picture books in Inspiration. This is definitely something that I would like to share with teachers at my school.

I am excited to try new ways to improve my students' writing through the use of slideshows and movies. Hopefully, I will be able to improve the writing of the students, the boys who are not excited, throough the use of new methods taught in class.

This has been another fabulous day of learning. Now the time to process and develop great things for my teaching!

Thank you for your time today! I can't wait to implement what I have learned today in the classroom. I look forward to slide shows and using the document camera!

I will use inspiration and kidspiration to enhance some of my lessons. I have been inspired, (with inspiration and kidspiration).

I am so excited to try some of this new technology in the classroom. I was surprised how easy it was to learn how to make a slideshow and how to use the Wiki page. I hope my students benefit from the knowledge I learned today.

Good ideas for instruction and assessment. I'm excited to try them. Lessons with Smart Board and imovie are engaging and fun!

These workshops are always so useful and well planned. I appreciated having the time (and instruction) to create a slide show. AND I will be using the nonfiction CD to create some lessons on life cycle.

You have been so patient! Thank you for the instruction! You did a GREAT JOB!

I will try to use as many of the new ideas that I learned today as I can, in a reasonable amount of time! I am hopeful to find a way to get a Smartboard at some point in time.

We learned some great ideas today! We can't underestimate the power of visual imagery. I thought it was interesting to think about boys tending to start school 1.5 years behind girls in fine motor skills and language.

I was excited to try blogging with my 1st graders. They were so excited about trying something new - and they did really well.

How did you blog with your first graders??

AHA: I will walk away from this remembering that my students "can do more than I think!" I'm going to try to take more risks with the kids using technology as a learning tool, not just an "add-on."

SUGGESTION: Have an earlier follow-up on adding to the WIKI; collaborative take aways for slide shows that are made,

Enjoyed the class and working to motivate my writers!

I was able to use Flickr to creat a slideshow for a writing lesson I put together. The slideshow was an introduction to what they were going to be doing. It helped them to think about what they wanted to write about, and for some of my other students if helped to give they some information. I can say that my students were very excited about writing after they had seen the slideshow. It also sparked a great discussion right before they started writing.
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This was a great review for Flicker since we are currently doing animal research. I made up some slide trays for our current reseach. I also liked making the book in iphoto. I wish I had more time to do this great work. Thank you for another great day.

My biggest "aha!" moment today was when we did the podcast. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I'm still not sure how I'll manage it, but I'd like my kids to record a reading of a book for parent-teacher conferences.
My wish? I would like to know more about resources to support English-language learners with technology.

I am excited to use BookFlix in my class. The fiction and non-fiction pairing are exciting. I wish I had the technology in my room to use all of this good info.

I found out that I can make a podcast!!!! I wish for a smart board for my school.

It is so exciting learning how to post a blog. I can't wait to go and experiment with this with the children in my class and my goal is to work on fluency with the children. I wish that all children will be able to use the podcast as a grEAT TOOL.

I was amazed at how easy it is to do a podcast. I wish I could utilize all the info and work on fluency through podcasts.