Thing 20

I couldn't resist anymore... Most of these are my babies :-)



I like the "tubes." We use SchoolTube at school beacuse YouTube is blocked.

Bad Joke... Mid Thing Humor

Charles Dickens walks into a bar and orders a martini...

Bartender asks... Olive or twist?

Thing 11

I went to Librarything and followed the directions. I added several books from my personal library. It was very easy to join and to use.

I can imagine using this to keep up with what I have read. I would probably keep a section for books I want to recommend to patrons.

The recommendations and connections sections seem like good places to look for books that might be of interest related to books you have already read.

The groups would probably be fun to peruse when I have more time. I dropped in on a few. The Green Dragon looks like one I will probably go back to some time in July :-)

Thing 10

I tried out some image generators. I especially liked the ones Mitch suggested in his blog. (My son liked the zombie by the way.)

Here are a few that I did.



created in Spiffy Text



Created in Comic Strip Generator

* My computer suggested that Comic Strip Generator was a "suspicious site"

Thing 9

The Google Blog search was the easiest for me, which I guess is weird, because I’ve been reading in some of the other blogs that I’m following that they thought it was the most difficult. I did not care for topix. Even though it was about my “area,” I found it difficult to navigate to anything I was interested in… I did like Technorati though. It was fun to browse and just see what is out there.
People sure have a lot to say…

Thing 8

What do you like about RSS and readers?

This was something I had not used before. I found my daughter's Twitter... interesting.
It is cool to be able to see lots of things that interest you in one convenient spot.

How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your school or personal life?

I am not sure that I would use this at school, but it would be good to keep track of my family and real estate news for San Augustine.

How can libraries/teachers/administrators use readers or take advantage of this new technology?

It would be a good way to keep track of all of the things that are going on in a high school.
You could subscribe to feeds dealing with sports, arts, and academics.

It would be a neat way to keep up with professional development too.

Thing 7

Well.. I am not fond of Google to begin with. I do not normally use it.

I found Google Scholar to be a useful tool. I think that students using Google Scholar would find more useful links and information than they would using just a "regular" search engine. I noticed that there were not any advertisements in the search results.

I did not want to sign up for or download anything I do not plan to use, so I did the iGoogle, because you did not have to do either of those things to use it properly.

I was not terribly impressed with it. The hamster was cool, but I did not find anything in their preset list of topics that I was actually interested in... I finally selected technology just to have content on my site.

Anyway, my conclusion is that I will probably not use Google any more than I did before.

I would really prefer my students use the databases in the library. I might suggest that they use Google Scholar if we cannot find anything on the databases.

Thing 6

I looked through the mashups / 3rd Part Sites. One that I found really amazing was the Flickr Color Pickr. I could see lots of uses if you could save the pictures and import them into a project. I can just see awesome mosaic projects going on in the classroom...

I sent KrazyDad, or Jim Bumgardner, an e-mail. I am interested to see if he will reply.

PS to Thing 5

Paint Chip book Uploaded on March 28, 2010by Urban Woodswalker

and

Bookcase Desk Uploaded on May 13, 2007by bowena

Thing 5

I liked this picture. It sort of makes me feel at home. I am missing my desk. I like to sit down after the kids are gona end drink tea.

I can see the Creative Commons being really useful for our book trailers next year!!!

My students love to download pictures, and having one more copyright issue resolved is a beautiful thing...

I like the paint chip book beacuse my daughter has been looking for crafts where she can recycle materials. I think she will like making one of these.

Thing 4

I've sent my e-mail to Ms. Branom. Now my blog is registered. Hooray!

Thing 3

It was much easier to create the blog and the avatar than it was to export the avatar to the blog. Thank you Thema for your help!

I enjoyed creating the avatar. I have another avatar created at a different site. It talks, but it did not have anywhere near the selection in wardrobe...

I would have preferred the ability to change the features of the actual character more though.

Thing 2

This was a really neat video. I did not see anything on there I found too difficult. I think having 4 kids with such varying ages (2 years to 17 years) makes it a little easier!