Top 10 Tech Tools

Top 10 Tech Tools I Can't Live Without

1. Internet-An essential tool to help connect with family and friends. A convenient way to shop from home and it helps keep me up to date with current events.

2. Animoto-An automated presentation generator that focuses on using images to communicate a message. An excellent tool for class collaboration.

3. Glogster-A personal web page that is complete with embedded links, sound and video capabilities.

4. Smart phone-An important tool that I use for texting, taking pictures and browsing the web.

5. Delicious-A social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks. It also find bookmarks from other users on the network.

6. Facebook-A great source for connecting with family and friends.

7. Twitter-A useful tool to stay in contact with other people. It's easy to use and you can create as many accounts as you want.

8. Prezi-This tool is simple and easy to use. It can be used to create a presentation.

9. Desktop Computer-I truly feel lost without it.

10. Evernote-A great tool to use. It's an online service provider that allow me to save, organize and retrieve all of my notes.

Mobile Apps

Mobile apps for Language Arts:

1.Dictionary.com-is one of the best apps for education. It provides a thesaurus and word of the day feature. The dictionary.com provides example sentences, audio pronunciations and word origins.

2.Story Kit-this app is an International children's Digital Library App. It provides features that allows you to create your own stories, complete with pictures. It also allows you to add text boxes, images, record sounds for your stories and add, reorder or delete your pages.

3.Grammar Up-the free edition of grammar up consist of 50 multiple choice questions and over 10 categories that provides a quick test of your student's grammar skills. Some of the categories includes verb tenses, prepositions and conjunctions.

4.Exam Vocabulary Builder-helps to keep vocabulary skills in the minds of students. It allows students to practice on a hundred words or more to improve their vocabulary skills. This app has a quiz mode that is easy and has challenging levels.

Digital Citizen

Why is it important to be a good digital citizen?

The importance of being a good digital citizen is to treat yourself and other people with respect. A digital footprint tool is now available to view what you have posted online. It can also view what you have posted in the past. Always contribute to the social media in a positive way. When others are being bullied or harassed you should stand up for them. A good digital citizen should not waste alot of time playing games and conducting other entertainment online.

What value does a good digital reputation have?

A good digital reputation should be responsible for their own actions. You should always use precautions when you post an email or send pictures online. It could ruin your reputation. All hidden or erased files can be retrieved. Never give out personal information.

3 Kinds of Material Generators That I Would Use In My Classroom

1.Test Generators-The test generator would be a great tool to use in the classroom. It allows teachers to create tests item by item in formats such as multiple choice, matching, true/false and fill in the blank questions. It provides students with an effective feedback and also helps to improve their performance.The test generator is time consuming for teachers and papers are easier to grade.

2.Puzzle Generators-I would use the puzzle generators to help create word search, criss-cross, spelling puzzles and other activities. This generator is easy to use. It is fun for students and helps them with their learning skills.

3.Rubic Generators-The rubic generators helps teachers to grade students test more accurate and fair. Students are allowed to self-assess their own work prior to submission. It also helps in the improvement of students performance.