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Many of the Cool Tools sessions were very useful and imformative. I was exposed to many tools that I had never hear of during the first carousel sessions. During Julian's session, I learned about iRubric and SimilarSites.com. These would be useful in my classroom because rubrics are a great way to assess students in a way that they also know exactly what is expected of them. In Gail's session, I learned about Tricider. This tool would be great for hearing all students opinions in the classroom. Finally, in Laura's session, I learned about ToonDoo and Glogster. This digital story telling tool would be a fun way to engage students in class. Most of the other tools were tools I already knew about. Like most Cool Tool sessions I have been to, the amound of tools out there become overwhelming. I have spend the last year testing and trying which tools work best for my classroom. I am glad that I know have a few more to test out in the coming year. Also there were several tools that I didnt feel like would work in my middle school classroom.

Lesson Plan using Glogster Essentail Question: How do authors use symbols and character traits to create characters in a novel? Students will create a character map of the favorite character from the novel The Outsiders using Glogster. Glog must include: symbols that represent the character (pictures) characters traits of their chosen character (words) quotes from the novel from or directly about their character

When Glog is complete, students will post it to their Edmodo page and share the glog with the class.