Tech Talk: Have you personalized yourself lately?

As I set to business on Wednesday demonstrating all the virtues of Edmodo at our monthly in-service, I realized my attendees had become immersed in personalizing their accounts. So we all visited Clayyourself.com and had fun building caricatures of ourselves for our profiles.  See if you can identify Ms. Neesvig in this lineup.  I know I’m a hard one to find.

Students also adore creating avatars and personalizing themselves for all to see.  Just be mindful of where and how much they share.  Students in the 5th grade have been working with Mrs. Neesvig to gather images creatively design a book trailer using Animoto .  3rd grade students joined Mrs. Hughes Edmodo class where we began doing some post and replies.  Next week she will have them spend a little time personalizing their accounts to share with her and other classes they may join.  In the 2nd grade students continued to work with Google Earth creating an animated "landforms tour guide" that will whisk each viewer to peninsula's, islands, continents, canyons, mountains and the occasional isthmus. Mrs. Keener’s 1st Graders practiced the phonics feature of the week(l-blends) using the whiteboard feature on the iPads. They wrote the words, segmented individual phonemes by boxing them, and blended the phonemes to sound out the words.