YETC Learning

I learned a lot. I'm really excited to use the software that was showed to us today... spellingcity.com, zotero.org (sadly it only works firefox), storyline.net, stellarium.com and Xmind. Holy fetch! It was awesome! As we were exploring it, I got really curious about how they designed the programs and software--especially for Stellarium. With Stellarium you can find constellations and such about the stars using graphic telescopes, location and time reference. With Xmind, you can do concept maps very easily, which works great with demonstrating how things are connected. Zotero was pretty cool too. You can find information about different topics for lessons and organize it, reference it, quote it, etc. through Zotero--and then pull up all of your work again on any computer that has firefox. It just knows!

I never thought that there were so many options for educational technology. It boggles my mind. There's so many activities and references that you can use to better educate your students--the sky's the limit! I'm really excited to use the newly found software in my future classroom. I'm excited to explore all the different possibilities with these websites and software. The YETC tour today was awesome!