I thought I knew everything there was to know about You Tube. I am a frequent user of the site, especially looking at videos for class. I did learn a thing or two though about how to upload videos and taking videos onto a Power Point.
Here is a link to one of our teacher’s favorite characters!!!! This one wasn’t shown at the beginning of the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGtrzQx0M8M
I use to listen to a radio program in the mornings called the Ace and TJ show, but it was taken off the air. Until there was another program I liked just as well, I would listen to the Ace and TJ show through a Pod cast. I subscribed through Itunes for free and just sync my Ipod when I got home. I listened to it a lot at first but then I slowly stopped just because of time and schedule. That is really the only time I ever used pod casting.
The links of the 23 Things page would not pull up at school, so I just went to ebooks.com. I really hate books on tape. I just can’t make myself listen to one. When I read, I want to mark my text and question my text and think about what I’m reading. I want to analyze and reread. However, I do realize how books on tape could be very useful for students though. Students who have trouble reading could really benefit from having a book read to them, but I still don’t think that you get everything out of a book by listening to it on tape.
I really liked doing this program, but I already knew how to do a lot of the things that were taught. I learned this stuff because I grew up with a lot of it. I had never blogged before, but I knew how to do it. I am so glad I found ZoHo writer through this program. I really like using it. I thought flickr was fun. Those are the two things that stuck out in my mind the most. I can see how this program would be difficult and take much longer if you did not have a lot of web experience.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Things 18 & 19
Wow! I am in love with ZOHO! I never knew this existed! I feel like I have just been given a very expensive Christmas present. This does more than Microsoft Word and it does is so easily. My first bad thought came when I thought about saving documents though. Then when I went to save, it saves it on the web! I might have all my students in writing lab start using this wonderful tool! No more…I lost my flash drive and I didn’t have time to put it in my file locker and blah blah blah. The two major things I use on my computer are the internet and Microsoft Word. I feel like I don’t even need Microsoft Word anymore. You can import all the documents you want!
I added books to my library that were novels that I am teaching this year in my classes. I added:
#1 - The Kite Runner – 17140 members
#2 - The Old Man and the Sea – 7105 members
#3 - The House on Mango Street – 2318 members
#4 - A Lesson before Dying – 1583 members
#5 - To Live – 289 members
I was not surprised at all by The Kite Runner being the most popular because it is the most recent novel and was such a huge success, but I am surprised at A Lesson before Dying only have 1583 members. It was in Oprah’s Book Club!
I added books to my library that were novels that I am teaching this year in my classes. I added:
#1 - The Kite Runner – 17140 members
#2 - The Old Man and the Sea – 7105 members
#3 - The House on Mango Street – 2318 members
#4 - A Lesson before Dying – 1583 members
#5 - To Live – 289 members
I was not surprised at all by The Kite Runner being the most popular because it is the most recent novel and was such a huge success, but I am surprised at A Lesson before Dying only have 1583 members. It was in Oprah’s Book Club!
Things 16 & 17
Week 7
I went to Chuck’s class on wikis during our in-service on Halloween. I thought that they were really cool! This week gave me an excuse to take some time to explore the wikis for myself. In college, I often times had a class where I had to contribute to class post or discussion. Actually, in one of my grad classes, that is what the majority of one of the classes is. I really want to use wikis second semester in my writing lab classes. I am concerned about students being accountable and students being appropriate.
In that same grad class, we had to use a wiki page to introduce ourselves. While we have a discussion board for that class, my professor took it as an oppurtunioty to show us one aspect of the web since the class is all about teachers, technology, and the web. Perhaps that would be a great way to start out class next year with some ICE BREAKER BLOGGIN ON WIKI. Oh the idea is all coming to me now…We will see…
I went to Chuck’s class on wikis during our in-service on Halloween. I thought that they were really cool! This week gave me an excuse to take some time to explore the wikis for myself. In college, I often times had a class where I had to contribute to class post or discussion. Actually, in one of my grad classes, that is what the majority of one of the classes is. I really want to use wikis second semester in my writing lab classes. I am concerned about students being accountable and students being appropriate.
In that same grad class, we had to use a wiki page to introduce ourselves. While we have a discussion board for that class, my professor took it as an oppurtunioty to show us one aspect of the web since the class is all about teachers, technology, and the web. Perhaps that would be a great way to start out class next year with some ICE BREAKER BLOGGIN ON WIKI. Oh the idea is all coming to me now…We will see…
Things 13, 14, & 15
Things 13, 14, 15
Week 6
De.licio.us, Technorati, and Copyright
I was already very aware of what tagging was. On face book, I am a big fan of the “de-tag” on pictures when I’m not looking so great! I have never heard to Del.icio.us though as a social book marking site. I think it’s a great tool but not one I would probably be interested in using in everyday life. I would probably only use it when working on a paper for graduate school.
I couldn’t understand what the purpose of Technorati was. It took me a minute. Basically it is a place for people to blog about things that are going on in the world. You can post videos and photos. I was not a fan of this site. I am not really interested in spending my time chatting with strangers about the news. Who has time for that? I can’t believe I say that when I’m the one who can’t allow my self on Facebook when I’m suppose to be doing school work!
Okay, at first I thought I might be able to show that video to my students, but I couldn’t stand to listen to Buzz Light year say “Copy” one more time! As far the discovery exercises go, I am confused by the question “What does Library 2.0 mean to you?” What I got from it was there are two sides of the debate. 1. You can’t share anything copyrighted or 2. It is ok to share things that are in a library. I think it is obvious that I love to share! I would have to say that it is okay to share things for educational purposes. Right?
Week 6
De.licio.us, Technorati, and Copyright
I was already very aware of what tagging was. On face book, I am a big fan of the “de-tag” on pictures when I’m not looking so great! I have never heard to Del.icio.us though as a social book marking site. I think it’s a great tool but not one I would probably be interested in using in everyday life. I would probably only use it when working on a paper for graduate school.
I couldn’t understand what the purpose of Technorati was. It took me a minute. Basically it is a place for people to blog about things that are going on in the world. You can post videos and photos. I was not a fan of this site. I am not really interested in spending my time chatting with strangers about the news. Who has time for that? I can’t believe I say that when I’m the one who can’t allow my self on Facebook when I’m suppose to be doing school work!
Okay, at first I thought I might be able to show that video to my students, but I couldn’t stand to listen to Buzz Light year say “Copy” one more time! As far the discovery exercises go, I am confused by the question “What does Library 2.0 mean to you?” What I got from it was there are two sides of the debate. 1. You can’t share anything copyrighted or 2. It is ok to share things that are in a library. I think it is obvious that I love to share! I would have to say that it is okay to share things for educational purposes. Right?
Friday, October 10, 2008
Things 10, 11, & 12
Week 5 - Things 10, 11, & 12
I chose to use Big Huge Labs to create a magainze cover:
I also created a badge for Coach Lennon: 
You can also see what the guys are really thinking:
Flickr won the award for photo and editing. I have been able to use this program through Learning 2.0. I really enjoyed the program, but I choose to tag my photos through my personal webpage because all of my friends use the same webpage program. I could play that Travel IQ all day!
Things 8 & 9
Week 4
I subscribed to New, Fun, Thinker, and two feeds for my APP English class. We are beginning Latin American Literature next semester and there will be a concentration on Julia Alavarez. I added two feeds from publication websites for her. What I like most about the feeds is that each student could pick something their own feeds or we could subscribe as a class about a certain subject.
In Writing lab, I could definitely use this because I could have all my students subscribe to the things that are interesting to them. Student's assignments could become personalized to their own interests.
I already have several newsfeed on my homepage that I read from time to time, but this is a way for a whole class to subscribe as a whole.
I subscribed to New, Fun, Thinker, and two feeds for my APP English class. We are beginning Latin American Literature next semester and there will be a concentration on Julia Alavarez. I added two feeds from publication websites for her. What I like most about the feeds is that each student could pick something their own feeds or we could subscribe as a class about a certain subject.
In Writing lab, I could definitely use this because I could have all my students subscribe to the things that are interesting to them. Student's assignments could become personalized to their own interests.
I already have several newsfeed on my homepage that I read from time to time, but this is a way for a whole class to subscribe as a whole.
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