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[|presentation] =Welcome to Mrs. Kelly's wikispace =

===This will be a place for me to communicate and share with you information, links, and activities. You'll probably want to bookmark this page as I will often direct you here. ===

This year, 2010-11, we will also be working with my blog page which you can access here [|Mrs. Kelly's Classroom Blog]

To the right is the menu for the History Page, the Grammar Page, and the Language Arts Page and you can also find the pages from some of last year's (09-10) work including the thematic book reports. Feel free to look at all the information on the pages, but don't assume that this year will be the same as last year.

A crucial aspect of our use of technology and the internet is understanding how to behave online. We will continually be revisiting the issues that surround our interactions with technology and our responsibilities. Here is a concise list of rules to begin our discussions.

**Top Ten Rules for Computer Use** Adapted from the book //Netiquette// by Virginia Shea found on Albion.com []
 * Netiquette** – the set of rules one follows when behaving properly online.
 * 1) Respect others. Always remember, you are talking to real people out there. Before posting anything, ask yourself: //Would I say this to the person’s face?//
 * 2) Follow the same polite and ethical standards of behavior online as you do in real life. //Do to others, as you would have them do to you.//
 * 3) Respect people’s time and space when posting.
 * 4) Take advantage of your anonymity.
 * 5) You will be judged only by the quality of your writing, not your color, gender, hair, eyes, weight, etc. Therefore, do a great job in your writing—spelling and grammar do count.
 * 6) Share your knowledge. It’s fun and makes the world a better place.
 * 7) Respect other people’s privacy. Never snoop in or interfere with anyone’s computer files.
 * 8) Never harm anyone’s work, files, or reputation.
 * 9) Never steal anyone’s work. Give credit where credit is due. Don’t cut-and-paste from Wikipedia or anywhere without directly quoting the source. (As I did below.)
 * 10) Be forgiving of other’s online mistakes.

Below are some example of some of the different technological tools we will use this year. GLOGSTER is a fun way to make things like posters and presentations online which we will be able to use as a way to show and share what we have studied and learned. You can click here to see my first try: [|my glog]

Here is a [|voicethread] I made with my three boys about our summer. It's an example of some of the many, cool, things that I've been learning about how to use technology to make our time in the classroom even more interesting, challenging, and up-to-date. media type="custom" key="4272103"

Animoto is an interesting tool to make videos that we will explore as well. Here is a simple one about my family that will just give you an idea of what they are like. We will work on including text that will convey a theme or idea that we have studied. media type="custom" key="5096523"

GOOGLE DOCS is a tool we will use for several different types of assignments, including writing assignments. You can see how links can be made to documents on the Ideal Community page to the right. Another feature of Googledocs is forms like the one below that can be used as surveys or online assignments. Here are some questions about Christmas that I'm embedding from google docs which we will be making more use of second and third trimesters.

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