Show and Tell

 Technologies I thought about how to incorporate:

Using Facebook as a way for parents and Students to reach out to you:
I found that the book did NOT recommend using Facebook as a learning management system, but it did advocate the use of Facebook to communicate more effectively with parents as well as students. Wes Fryer thinks that parents are more likely to visit the teacher's Facebook then navigate the school website, and students are more likely to ask what the homework is on your Facebook page then they are to email you. I found this teacher's Facebook page that is very active and the students seem to enjoy the availability that it gives them to ask questions. I may think about making one, honestly (and I am usually very against Facebook in the classroom)!

Tumblr:
If Tumblr is not blocked at the school, it can be used as a blog just as blogger can. Students may be more familiar with Tumblr because they may have personal blogs of their own. Tumblr is also unique because it allows you to post things on your blog made by other content creators with one click of a button. This reblogging feature is also valuable so others can share the content you have created. This is a link to the tumblr blog I made for last year's UMF symposium day.

Glogster:
Glogster is a online poster making site where students can make digital multimedia poster presentations. Glogsters can include links, videos, audio, images, graphics, gifs, text, pretty much anything you want to include. There are plenty of glogsters on almost every topic you can think of, made by students, for students. Here is an example of one that is similar to what I would have my students create. I experienced glogster first hand this semester when I made a student sample for my unit using glogster.