Kathy Schrock's Website

This weeks assignment was  great!  We were asked to go to Kathy Schrock's website and look around to see what tools we would find useful in our classroom.  On the website she has been nick named the "Gadget Queen" which definitely seems like an appropriate name for Kathy.

One  of my favorite links she shared was "Dumpr"  where a person can create unique projects with their pictures.  One of Kathy's ideas is for educators to have their students use this site in order to create an "about me" slide presentation.  What a fun suggestion!

I also liked the ability I have on her site to go into archived information to look at several years worth of ideas for how to better improve the students ability to learn.  One of the links took me to a side entitled "wordtalk" which is a software program that is a free plug-in that makes it possible for someone who has a difficult time understanding or reading text to hear the instructions when they are using "microsoft word".  It even has a talking dictionary incase there are misspelled words.

I am looking forward to the future when I will have more time in order to look around Kathy's website in more detail so that I can explore the many different tools she has to share when it comes to technology in the classroom.