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 * Web 2.0 Resources**

Web resources are simply resources or items that can be made through different sites and programs on the web, and are used to help motivate, clarify information, or pull students into a lesson. I had many ups and downs while doing my WEB 2.0 Project. Read and check out all my highs and lows along the way!

These are items I made for my first grade unit on animal habitats while using BigHugeLabs.com:

I enjoyed creating the magazine cover! Really neat and so easy kids could definitely do this.

A motivator I created from BigHugeLabs.com

A pop art poster-also from BigHugeLabs.com

Bighugelabs.com was also a great site to use. You can create many different items on the site and I thought it was also very user friendly. I really like the magazine cover and the posters. I could see uses these with my [|classes].

So, I was greatly disappointed while using Glogster! I think the idea of creating a page is neat, but I found that some parts of the site did not work correctly (or as they did on the tutorial). The images/graphics and text were easy to edit and add. Yet, I did not think there were that many to choose from a lot more pop art than clip art. Also, I could not get the videos from [|school] tube to preview or play and even when I put it on the page I never got it to play! And then I could not get my links to upload. It would start to load them, but then POP up and say: Opps, there has been an error! However, it never said why or how to fix it! I believe I wasted several hours of my life trying to fix these problems. I even swapped computers and still could not get it to work ! So needless to say I like blogs better than glogs. :(

Here is the link to my glog: []

Notice how the video and links will not work ! Here are the URLs for my links if you want to check them out:

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Bubbl.us was a [|easy site] to navigate and edit and add to. I thought the program was user friendly and worked well. I did have an issue trying to get both of my concept maps to export as a JPeg. I found that the e-mail worked fine, but when trying to save my maps as a JPEG, it would start, then come up and ask me if I wanted to download, and when I said yes it would kick me off and send me all the way out to the log-in page! I also tried swapping computers and enabling my pop-up blockeers and stilll nada! Very frustrating altogether. Check out this video I made from Animoto!

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While creating this project, I enjoyed learning to use Animoto. So easy to do, I love this site. I found that the site was very user friendly and it was so quick to upload pictures and add the music. I can definitely see myself using this site again and making picture videos for my personal use, as well as for school. I would definetly pay $5.99 a month to make short videos from pictures. I have visions of gift ideas in my head right now!

**Activity Wiki**

Here is the link to my activity Wiki: http://msjs-virtualfieldtrip-rainforest.wikispaces.com/

I had my students go on a virtual field trip to learn about rainforests. My students had a worksheet with questions they had to answer that were found in areas of the wiki. I did this activity with my first grade reading class that was learning about Habitats. The standard covered was:


 * |||| Science (2005) ||
 * Grade(s): 1 ||
 * **Web Resources:** || 1 ||
 * **Lesson Plans:** || 56 || || 4.) Describe survival traits of living things, including color, shape, size, texture, and covering.

• Classifying plants and animals according to physical traits Examples:

- animals-six legs on insects,

- plants-green leaves on evergreen trees

• Identifying developmental stages of plants and animals Examples:

- plants-seed developing into seedling, seedling developing into tree;

- animals-piglet developing into pig, kid developing into goat

• Describing a variety of habitats and natural homes of animals ||