Post #9

I could see one station with the SBISD Skill Builders for those students who struggle with basic social studies concepts, and another station with Think-finity which had interactive games and also able to create a postcard (pretending you are visiting another region or time period in history and writing to a friend back home explaining what you see there. Animoto is also an excellent way for a student to retell a time period, battle, etc. in history and teach other students with it. The way I would hold them accountable would be to show them my expectations first (examples) and provide clear guidelines, training, a rubric and time them.

Tool #8

1. I already had a iTunes account. 2. I already knew how to download apps and have done some on my ipad already. 3. I learned how to sync apps to iPads. Now this helped put it all together. It was very useful.

tool #7

On the collaboration piece, I could take our project on "Famous Texans" and have students pose questions to students in other class periods about their research. Mrs. Sturhan and I could have our kids collaborate via SKYPE and Edmodo on the adaptation to the environment of various native american tribes. We could even take virtual field trips and talk to other TX History classrooms along the "Independence Trail" of Texas Independence, making it very visually rich and more real for students.

Tool #6

Today's Meet is a really cool idea! Not only will it be good for warm-ups (to see what they already know), but also for discussions on current events--which is why I created mine to be "Texas Today"

http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/5554088/Untitled Wordle is great for vocabulary!

Tool #5

I really love the ease and flexibility of Animoto! It just allows for infinite creative possibilities!I can see using this in the classroom as either an introduction to a unit (created by me for the students to preview), or as mini-lessons for the students to create in their particular group for the benefit of the entire class.

Tool #4

I really like this option of being able to post lessons, rubrics and other useful lessons for my 7th grade team to be able to access without the hassle of email attachments.