spreadsheet

I liked the spreadsheet program because it would help with keeping track of grades and highlighting different areas in different colors and fonts to help organize grading better. I think for the students, they could learn how to do a spreadsheet for reading logs or to practice different spelling words.

blogger

I think that blogger would be a fun get-to-know you tool for the students. It would be easier for the upper grades, but the students could learn how to use it. Maybe once or twice a week, each student can show his or her blog for the class. It would be like a spotlight for the week. It would benefit them in learning those computer skills and the rest of the class can find out all about their different classmates.

EDEL 2200: 03/Rebecca Barkdull-collaborating tool

A tool that I think would be very helpful to use in the classroom would be the collaborating tool that is used in gmail. I think it would be very helpful in especially teaching upper grades. A few schools have teachers that team-teach different subjects. I think that using this tool could help teachers add different things in Power Point and could be very helpful to them and the students as well. A group of students may be in a group together and have to give a report by using Power Point. They could use the collaborating tool in gmail to help each other if they couldn't all get together after school and they could work on it whenever they get the chance to at home. It's a great tool if it involves a group project for both teachers and students.