Semester Favorites

During this semester, I learned how to use a great number of tools and resources which could easily be used during my future in education. However, there are a couple in particular that I really liked and found myself referring back to or using for different things time and time again. The first tool I really love is Delicious. This bookmarking tool made it so easy to save any webpages or resources I thought I might use later, and organize those bookmarks using tags, or descriptions about the specific page I was using.

After signing up at the beginning of the semester, I have already bookmarked over 150 pages on my personal Delicious site, and I'm sure this number will continue to grow throughout my educational journey.

The second website I found especially interesting was Animoto. This website allows you to upload any set of pictures you might want and create a short video slideshow of your pictures set to music. As we explored in class, this is a great way to not only get creative and organize your personal pictures, but also make creative lesson introductions which will capture your students' attention for the upcoming lesson you are going to teach. Here is an example of a video I created as an about me for DED 318 class.


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

While there are many other tools we learned about this semester, these two stood out to me the most and I really love using them inside and outside of the classroom.