About Me

My name is Scarlett Mora, I am a 6th grade teacher with USD259, Wichita, KS. I am working towards a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis is technology. This blog will follow my journey as I discover new apps and sites to utilize in the classroom.

Monday, October 13, 2014

Google Tools Are ...Not to Cool for School!

Google has many unique and great tools that you can use in the classroom. A few that I find to be the most useful are Google Body, now called zygote-body and Google translator.

Google Body/Zygote body would best be described as Google Earth for the body. Click here to check out Zygotebody . This awesome website explains how to use Zygote body and has links to lesson ideas.Zygote Body how to .  It is also an app.  which you can use it to do  3D dissections. Here is a video that explains how to use the app. 
Below are links to possible lesson plans you can use with Zygot body:
Systems of the Human Body
The Human Body Corp.

Google Translator:  is a free automatic translator. It works without the intervention of human translators, using state-of-the-art technology instead. Google Translate currently supports translation between 57 languages.


In the Spanish class here students wrote notes to their favorite teachers telling them about things they have enjoyed learning about in class. They wrote them in Spanish, I used Google translator and entered the words they had written then translated it from Spanish to English. It was somewhat choppy, since English and Spanish to not speak in the same direction if you will. I was able to piece together what they were meaning. I decided to use Google translator to respond to my students also in Spanish. My sister in law is Bi-lingual I had her check the return notes to make sure they made since. They did not to her, she said it was very garbled and hard to read in Spanish that the words it had used to translate did not really make since, but she said that much as I had to garble it together going from Spanish to English, it does get your basic point across but does always make use proper grammar and make good word choices.  

Sunday, October 12, 2014

My VERY OWN website!!

This week I explored the  world of Google Sites, and created my very own class webpage. I am not going to lie it was QUITE a challenge for me.  I tend to be a jump in and play with it until I figure it out person. Unfortunately I picked the very user unfriendly classroom template, which I do NOT recommend. Since I am stubborn I stuck it out and worked with it until I created a page I am happy with check out my site here.  . The classroom template was the most confusing thing I have ever used. I would like to try to build once from scratch and see how that process goes.
FYI: If you decide you want to change your theme here are detailed directions.

Want to create your own?? This  video may help.

Check out these sites  on how to make your own classroom site. Make a classroom site 


Other Examples of Classroom sites: Miss. Schoenbergers 3rd Grade   Coach Allens PE Page

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Picasa from my casa to yours

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website. Get Picasa Here 

Picasa is an amazing tool for sharing your photos with family and friends or even for having students create projects. You can edit, store and share all your photos to this site and have access to them from any internet connected device.  

Youtube Who knew?

Most everyone who uses a computer has seen or used YouTube, an online video sharing site. Whether you are using it to view  fun clips , motivation or educational purposes. it is an amazing tool!  Make the most out of YouTube You can even edit your own videos.
 
A new feature I just learned about and love is Quiet Tube, it allows you to view any YouTube video without the suggested videos , ads or comments . Which makes them safe to show in class, or share on a class website.