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THING 11.5 Evaluation

2009-08-04T19:01:00.003-05:00

Time to pack up from my beach trip and go back to work. It was fun to work on the 11.5 web lessons this summer. I enjoyed being able to work from home or on my trips using the computer.

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?

I liked several of the sites and will share them with my school. I liked wordle and wordshift because they are great ways to share new vocabulary. Glogster is a great way to have kids do on-line posters which they will love. Animoto allows kids to make videos from pictures. Skype I already knew about and have used. My family uses it to talk to our kids that live in Kentucky. I think teachers will love to use sites like Hulu, PBS video, and National Archives Video Collections.

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?

I think that there are so many things to learn and so little time to explore everything new that comes out. I was amazed at the number of things out there that is avilable to all of us. I was so glad that I was able to do the 11.5 things because someone else did the searching for me on the new technologies out there. I think that being able to learn in this manner is great.

3. were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?

I thought second life was interesting but I don't think that I would really ever use it. I know the kids will love it, but it really didn't grab me. I have known about facebook for a long time but I had never joined. I was surprised how quickly people asked me to be their friend. some of the people I had not heard from in a long time. Now I am hooked. Several fo my teachers have expressed interest in doing a facebook project next year.

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program's format or concept.

I likethe format and I can't think of any thing that could be done any different. I especially like being able to work from home to get the necessary inservice hours I need. Also this course is so revelant to what I need to be able to progress in my job. As always, it took way more than 11.5 hours to complete the course.

THING 11 Digital Citizenship

2009-08-04T18:22:00.003-05:00

I looked all of the sites on digital citzenship and found it overwhelming to say the least. There was lots and lots of information to sort through. I liked the TEA sites but several of the links didnot work. The Texas School Safety Center was great. It had 3 sites that I thought were very good and I bookmarked them. they are: Stop Cyberbullying, Cyberbulling Prevention Tips handout, and Internet Safety Blog. I plan on sharing these with my school.

I learned that since 87% of all kids use the internet it is key that they learn how to evulate sites since their opinions are usually formed from the first site that they use. Students need to learn how to know if material is valid. They need to know how to use the deep web searches instead of always going to google. I looked at several of these deep web sites like Clusty, Intute, and Informine from the on-line education database. I know that these are on our Library Resources Page under find it, but I confess that I don't use these enough and I need to make an effort to teach them.

I will need to form several lessons on digital citizenship that include:

What is a digital citizen

Proper internet behavior

Cyberbullying

Valid websites

Evulation websites

Safety on the internet

Citing sources (have a lesson)

THING 10 Second Life

2009-07-31T15:22:00.002-05:00

Second life is an online virtual world that is imagined and created by you. First you have to create an avitar that will be you in second world. I did create one but I just did some basic things to mine so that I could play. I learned how to walk around in steampunk victorian caledon. I learned how to fly and sit. I talked to 2 people. I really don't see myself doing this too much, but I think kids would love it. I can see how you could get lost in here for hours. I looked at some educational areas and liked the physics and astronomy place as well as the second china idea which I thought was great. I can see how people could experience things in another country without actually going there. I think teachers could use this to let their students experience many different things. My son said that he would go in with me so that I could experience doing something with him.

THING 9 Slideshare

2009-07-31T13:16:00.004-05:00

Slideshare allows you to share powerpoint files online. I like it because you can also view other powerpoints. I think it would be great idea for librarians from all over to be able to share the different presentations that they make. This would be a great way to either use the presentation or adapt it for your own use.

Students could also upload their presentaions and that way they could work together from anywhere. Plus students could get ideas for their own presentations from other students.

I got some great advice from one of the sites we had to view to help me with my own presentations, so I will share.

1. Use both words and graphics----65% graphics and 35% words.

2. Don't use pictures that dont relate to the topic.

3. Adding audio is effective.

4. Use an on screen host to engage the viewer.

THING 8 Screen cast

2009-07-22T15:56:00.007-05:00

A screen cast is a digital recording of a computer screen. Atomic learning uses screen cast to teach their lessons. I have used atomic learning a lot. I have had Camtasia for quite a while as we got it included with snag it, but I had never used it. My son worked with me to get my microphone to work as it was having problems. I had 2 ideas to make my screen cast, but the first one didn't work as I wasn't connected to the SBISD network and the second idea would have given away some library codes and I realized that I couldn't do that. The screen cast that I did was my son's idea---it is silly, but it showed that I learned how to do it.

THING 7 Video Resources

2009-07-22T14:44:00.003-05:00

I listened to the codes of best practices video and just learned that the kids will be confused about what should be copyrighted or not. Having the book would be a good idea.

I looked at all of the video sources shown and learned that there was more out there than I was aware of. They were all good and I plan on sharing several of them with my staff.

Hulu was the first one I saw and I found the section on Farah Fawcett. While not so educational, I was interested because I went to high school with her. I was so sad that she died and I have been keeping up with all of the news items on her.

PBS video is a great site. I looked into several of the history sites and I liked how you could filter so that you could get just where you wanted to go. I looked at some cold war videos.

THING 6 I phone and I touch

2009-07-22T13:52:00.002-05:00

I have used my friend's I phone to play with some of the apps. It was fun to use and I would like to have the same phone from Verizon when I am able to update my phone in November. I thin teachers would rather the kids have I touches than allow I phones because of the trouble they might have with students wanting to text their friends all of the time while in class. Someone called the I touch mobile learning which is how the world is moving today. We cannot be without our mobile devices. Still the kids will be able to benefit from using an I touch. I know that the library will be getting several for use next year and I will be interested in seeing how well they do. I know that there will be many uses for them such as the calculator, using google, brainteasers, on line lessons, a calendar, gps, taking notes, and being able to work together from anywhere.

Thing 5 Facebook and Twitter

2009-07-01T11:31:00.004-05:00

I have 2 sons and a daughter-in-law who all have a facebook account. I have watched them use it for years. Every time I go to my son's house, he lets me get on his account and catch up on all of his old friends. I love doing this as I have not seem any of these people since my boys were in high school. Also. one of my teachers created a facebook project this past year and I worked with her on this project on people in history. The kids had to pick a person that they wanted to research and then create a facebook page for that person. Then they could invite other people that were created by their classmates. it was a huge success as the kids loved doing it.

Twitter is interesting. I have never used it, but I know that thousands of kids are using it every day. This generation is becomming used to keeping up with their friends not much by phone but with twitter or by texting. They want instant information. Each twitter can only use 140 characters, so it has to be quick. I am not so sure how to use this in the classroom, but I look forward to hearing what other people have to say about it.

Thing 4 You tube

2009-06-23T19:39:00.003-05:00

This is a great way to share videos. I learned that you tube was started in 2005 and 70 million videos were viewed daily. The mega giant, google, owns it.

Last year my speech teacher wanted to use some academy award acceptance speeches in her classroom. We played around uploading the speeches into zamzar so that they could be viewed in our school district. It worked great and the kids enjoyed it.

I can see how it could be used by kids that want to use videos that they make as a project. The kids watch you tube every day and are very familiar with how to use it. They would love to use this application with various projects.

Thing 3-- Like Skype--free, zip,zero, nada

2009-06-23T18:41:00.004-05:00

I have known about skype for awhile. We researched it because some friends of ours take groups of people to Israel every year and they were complaining about the high cost of calling over there to talk to their guide. My husband showed them how to use it.

The best thing about it is it is FREE. My son and his wife live in Kentucky and we are going to have a first grandbaby in July, so the web cam feature is a must for us to be able to keep up with the baby every day.

I think it would be agreat idea for student who are out of school for a long period to be able to join their class using skype. Also classes from all over the world would be able to communicate with each other.

I looke at a few of the other services and found the EVA phone but it limits the use to 5 minutes per call. Gizmo is a free service that can create a conference room but you would have to have the connecting phone number handy.

Thing 2 Word play, and voki

2009-06-23T17:05:00.006-05:00

I really liked this "thing" and the new 2.0 items that I explored.
Wordle and word shift were similar because you could point out the most prominate words in a speech or text. It is a fun way to play with text and use with word relationships. I practiced with putting in words that had to deal with the French Revolution. These words could be used projected with an LCD to introduce a unit.

A glog would be a wonderful way to change the way a poster can be made for a project. I think the kids would like this idea much better than the old traditional poster---and it was fun to do.

I made a voki and I attempted to add it to my blog. We will see if it actually worked. It didnt work. I will try again later.

I went to Bookr and made 2 books. I was alittle frustrated with this program because of the picture choices that I had and I thought it was a little hard to use. The pictures scrolled by so fast and they were hard to see unless you added them to the book. Then I attempted to add them to my blog but was unsuccessful.

Thing 1---registration for the beach

2009-06-21T15:56:00.003-05:00

I am all registered for this second go around to learn new techniques that will help challenge the 21st century student. As librarians we must be on the cutting edge ready to teach not only our students, but also the teachers on the new ideas that can be used in the classroom.

I liked the viedo that showed how the students of today can take charge of their learning by using connectivism and build a network to use for learning. Kids of today are so used to computers that they learn best when they can use that computer. I loved the idea of searching for articles and blogs on the topics that they are researching. Then the student can create his own blog on what he has learned so he can get comments from others. I especially loved the idea that they can download lectures from college professors and get information from the best teachers in the world.

I liked the words to describe the student's teacher; words like modeler, learning conceirge, change agent, and my favorite,learning architect. I think the librarian can play a major role in this learning process by showing the student where to find all of the information he is needing. The teacher and the librarian are a team that can plan and then execute the learning problem that will be presented.

Audio Manipulation

2008-08-19T14:08:00.001-05:00

We worked with audio and I learned how to use audacity which I had never used before. But we had trouble getting it to post to the sandbox wiki. We mthought it might be that several people were on at once, but that still didn't work. OH WEll----i WILL TRY AGAIN.

Image Manipulation

2008-08-19T14:03:00.002-05:00

We found images from Discovery Education and Flickr creative common and then uploaded the pictures into powerpoint to learn how to resize the image. I had never used Irfan before and I thought it was so cool. Now I know where my son had taken images and turned them into sepia. I hd done the image generators before and had created a traading card. This time I did a magazine cover and I had trouble getting the bullets to work.

photostory--olympics

2008-08-19T10:15:00.003-05:00

olympics are so exciting this year. see this photostory. Well, it would not download. I will try again later. The kidecause it is funs will love working wiwth this b

THING 23 I'm done---HALLELEJAH

2008-03-18T12:30:00.006-05:00

HALLELUJAH-----I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.

1. Favorites. There were several: I liked photo story even though I had trouble with it. I think the kids would really like working with this. I liked google docs because I could see how much the kids would use this to share info when working on group projects. Out of the awards list, I liked the biblio.com site because I know I will use this to find out of print books. I have several IB teachers that always want these hard to find books. I like wiki's because of the many ways that students and teachers could collaborate. I loved the image generator and I have already shared this idea with several teachers. I like rollyo because I can use this to create lists of websites when teaching my research units.
2. I love to learn new things. My mother always told me that I would make a good career student. I did learn so much from this experience and had fun too.
3. I was surprised about how much was out there to learn. Who knew that there was so many web 2.0 things to go through. I was also surprised that I could do all of it. At times I was frustrated because it seemed overwhelming but I just took it one thing at a time. (just what we tell our students to do)
4. I liked the program format. I really liked that I could do this on my own timing.
5. I would do this again. It was a challenge and fun at the same time. I will probably do it all over again this summer for more hours.
6. I really did have a good time. One word---FUN

THING 22 Ning a ling

2008-03-18T11:46:00.003-05:00

Ok--just plain nings. I learned that they are a social networking tool. I really was aware of these things, I just didn't know that nings was the name. I have 2 boys and a daughter-in-law so I have seen their my space and facebook pages a lot. I found that it really is a good way to talk to my one son who can spend hours showing me "things" on his page and on others. I have learned a lot just from watching him. Both of those sites are very interesting because you can find out alot of information.

I did search High School Teacher Librarians and zeroed in on the group section. I found one for librarians that are in the IB program. This group could be very helpful to me as IB schools are rare. There are only 4 in Houston. I also loked at the Texas School Librarians. I was surprised to see Vaughn Branom and Dr. Bishop as members. I did join. I saw something interesting on book trailers and could see a use for those but alas----it is youtube which is blocked!!!

THING 21 Podcasts and Audio Books

2008-03-18T10:53:00.006-05:00

I did it-----I had my doubts. I created a photo story about dictators. It is very crude attempt, but it is done. I chose dictators because my IB European history teacher does a unit on dictators. I admit that my LA sis did come down to my office and showed me how to do it, but when I got home and started on my own it became a little harder. I had trouble getting the microphone to work so it doesn't sound very good. Also I couldn't get a blank screen to come up so that I could type the opening. I will had to ask my sis what I did wrong.

Also I did look at audacity and played around on it a little bit. I was so surprised about all of the languages that were listed at the bottom. Who would have thought that Basque would be listed.

OK----I have had a problem adding the photo story. I will try again later.

THING 20 Explore You Tube and Teacher Tube

2008-03-14T16:46:00.004-05:00

I did not know that you tube was create by 3 former pay pal employees. Google bought it for 1.65 billion--yes B is for billion. This site is so popular that more than 100 million videos are watched every day. I was aware of you tube and I have watched a few of them but I had never surfed around on the site. I searched libraries and looked at a couple but it was overwhelming so I went to teacher tube. I saw a great video on 21 century computing. I also saw " A New Way to Publish- the Rise of Web 2.0: It pointed out that learning was moving beyond the classroom. Children can learn from places all over the world. I looked up world history and saw lots of great stuff I can share with my teachers. Then I started looking up other areas ans was so surprised by the sheer number of videos out there. My teachers will love it.

THING 19 Web 2.0 Awards List

2008-03-07T18:50:00.003-06:00

I really like going through all of these awards but again you can get lost in them and time passes without you even being aware. I went through alot of them but I found a few that I really liked.

Biblio.com is a great site that lets you look for books that are out of print and then gives you a source to buy from. I have a couple of history teachers that are always asking me for books that are out of print but they still think that the books are essential for research for their course. they will be thrilled that I found this site.

Furl is a social networking site that allows you to share and explore people's favorite sites that they have bookmarked. You can search through the the site. I search books and found over 51,000 sites. I think I should have narrowed the search.

Writeboard is similar to Google docs. It is a sharing site that is web based. It lets you save every edit, go back to any piece, and compare changes. This site has tools that let you edit, export as plain text or an e-mail. You can invite as many people as you want to collaborate on a writeboard.

Wet Paint is a free wiki website. It is easy to add content ans has an easy edit tool bar. It works like a word processor. You can even add photos, and you tube videos. I liked the idea of a school PTO using this site to keep people up to date on what is happening at the school. It could share fund raising plans and events. It could post meetings, create volunteer sign up, post photos, and have attachments for all forms such as membership. Also school clubs could use this same idea.

THING 18 On line Productivity Tools

2008-03-07T18:05:00.006-06:00

Open Office was frustrating to work with. It took so long to download and then I had trouble with it. It took 3 tries to get it to work right. But once it was done I could see that it could be a good thing. The great thing about it is that it is free to use. Which could be a great thing to people that can't afford the price for Microsoft office. The program has about the same stuff as microsoft and I found it easy to use. One of the tools is Impress which will let you use 2D and 3D clip art, special effects,and animation. It also has easy to use drawing and diagramming tools. Draw allows you to communicate with graphics and diagrams. I really like the old appleworks when I used their draw program so maybe this will take its place. Of course it has a writing tool as well as spreadsheets like excel, and presentations like power point. Information can be transferred between all of the 5 office products.

Goggle docs is a great place for students to save work. They could then have access to a file similar to their norway folder. This way they could access their work from home and would not have to save to a flash drive. Another good thing about is tool is other students can share and work on the same document. You can also publish your work online as a web page. This is just one of the many things that Google has to offer. They truly will rule the world some day.

THING 17 SANDBOX WIKI

2008-03-03T15:23:00.004-06:00

When I was a little girl you could always find me outside playing. I had a sandbox and loved building cities and digging to China. This learning 2.0 sandbox is a different kind of playown the sandbox you can leave comments either on your own or respond to someone else's ideas This way you could build upon any type of sharing. It is fun and the kids and adults would enjoy using it. I did get a little frustrated when Itried to link to a couple of pages. I still am not sure that it worked.

THING 16 Wiki Wiki

2008-03-02T16:36:00.002-06:00

Wiki's are a great way for people to collaborate. The name comes from a Hawaiian phrase, wiki wiki, which indicates something fast. Everyone on the planet should be familiar with Wikipedia which was my first exposure to a wiki. All the kids at school talk about going to wikipedia first even though I try to tell them that sometimes the information may be changed.
I like the "you tube" video that made it real easy to understand the concept. The video is called "Wikis in plain English" This shows a video that uses a camp out as an example of how a wiki works. It is cute and easy to understand. I would use this video as an intro for my teachers.
I looked at several of the examples of library wikis that I thought were useful. One of the best ones was "Must Have Graphic Novels Secondary" that came from the teacherlibrarianwiki
FrontPage site. It is a great place to get ideas on what graphic novels people are talking about.
This site has lots of places you can go for help with selection. Another site that I thought was unbelievable is "Library Success: a Best Practices Wiki" It has any and everything in it that a librarian could ever need. It has such things as reader's advisory, reference service,
selling your library, management and leadership, materials, selection, training, technology, and even information sharing.
There were several examples of how a wiki could be used in the classroom that I liked. Teachers could really get great ideas from these sites:

Sample School Wiki
Sample Literary Circle Wiki
Sample AP World History

THING15 Web 2.0, library 2.0, and the Future of Libraries

2008-02-28T15:05:00.000-06:00

I like the idea of changing the "mind set" of librarians and libraries. I am from the old school; when I started, we had card catalogs and research was done with books. We have come a long way baby! Now we are in an explosion of technology that almost grows faster than we can keep up.
According to the video " A Vision of Students Today", kids will only read 8 books but they will read 2300 web pages and read 1281 facebook paages. They spend 3 1/2 hours on line. They write only 42 pages for class but will write 500 e-mails. These students of today must be multitaskers. They are also preparing for jobs that may not exist right now. I can't read a book and listen to music at the same time. But thses kids have grown up with all of this technology around them. They adapt quickly to new things. I go to my 24 year old sons when I have a problem with the computer.
Dr. Wendy Schultz said in her article "To a Temporary Place in Time," that libraries are communities. She futher says that in a 2.0 world that the "library is everywhere, barrier free, and participatory." We the librarians will become the "experienced tour guides." I like that---we can be seen as helping travelors as they begin to chart their jouney.

THING 14 TECHNORATI

2008-02-24T18:10:00.000-06:00

According to Wikipedia Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs. The name points to the technological version of literati or intellectuals. I listened to the people of technorati talk about their site. They like to think that they track conversations. They are interested in what a regular person has to say for example rather than a critic. they feel that this site lets people connect with one another. One of the men thought it was about the human experience. I enjoyed looking at the video of all of these people talking about their site.

I searched for school library learning 2.0 and found 1652 results. I looked at a few but to see all of them would be daunting. I also found lots of posts on the library 2.0 "things" that we are doing here in Spring Branch. In fact I found a couple of our people in the blog section. I also looked at the top 100 blogs, top searches, top 100 blogs by authority, and top videos. again, I got lost in this site with several hours flying by. Oh well, back to the real world.

Thing 13 Del.icio.us

2008-02-22T17:36:00.000-06:00

This is not just a place to find delicious food although you can search the food tags
Del.icio.us is a place that lets you oraganize your bookmarks or any other other places you want to save. This site looks easy to use and is nicely put together. I liked the "tags to watch" area. I looked in the library, technology, travel, and google tags. I got caught up in the google and recipes tags. You could lose hours here.
Another place I looked was Digg which is the same kind of site but in this one the user is in charge of which sites are the most popular. You can rate story with a thums up or down button. You can contribute by submitting an interesting article, video, or podcast. It will appear in "upcoming stories". Another feature is a friends share folder that is kinda like my space or facebook.

THING 12 ROLLYO

2008-02-21T15:30:00.000-06:00

I started out very slow with this site so I looked at what others had done with their Rollyo. After that I got excited. I began to think of how many times that I had worked with teachers to find web sites for a particular lesson. I had to type all of it up and hand it out to each student. Rollyo would be the perfect place to put all of these sites and the kids would love it. The teacher or I could put these rollyos on our web sites. One of my history teachers is a big library user and I am always working with her on research. We just finished working on a World War II unit so I thought I would creat a World War II site on the Rollyo. It was fun and easy to do. I could do searches from there such as "home front" and "women in the war". I plan on showing several teachers how to use this.

I still like to use I Keep Bookmarks as well. It kinds works on the same principal. Several people can add to this site at the same time if several teachers are working on the same unit.

Thing 11

2008-02-20T16:09:00.000-06:00

Library Thing

Ok--don't throw me into the briar patch!!! I could get lost in this one. It is just books, books, books--my favoorite thing. I loved it because it is a site for book lovers. I started making my list and it could go on forever. I liked the Zeitgeist to see all of the places you could go such as 25 most reviewed books, top 25 authors, top books, and others. I got lost in the groups, so many to see and read. All in all a most excellent site. I am now reading the new John Grisham boo, The Appeal. Also I added 2 of the new James Patterson books. He is my new craze. I love reading his books.

Thing 10

2008-02-20T16:01:00.000-06:00

I had some trouble getting some of these sites to work so I got frustrated. The Sites were blocked from school and when I tried at home I had trouble again. I will try again tonight. I did use the Image Chief to make a sign which was fun. I had already made a trading card with another "thing" and I shared that with my 7th grade teachers to use with their Texas History charactors unit. The teachers were excited and they thought the kids would have alot of fun using it. They plan on using this technology.

Thing 9

2008-02-20T15:36:00.000-06:00

I found that there were lots of things to go through with this"thing". I am not sure how many of them I would actually use, but I did like a few of them. Bloglines was easy to use and you can search for your interests or can create your rss feeds like google reader. It seemed to be the easiest to use of all of them. Of course google rules the world and google blog search is easy to use. Everyone knows how to navigate through any of the google sites. Technorati was intersting but it seems to have so much stuff on its home page---just lots to go through. Cool Cat Teacher was a good site that I would recommend to my teachers as a helpful place to go. I liked School Library Blogs as a specific place for librarians to use.I did not like Topix because the comments seemded to get to radical and I got tired of it quickly. I though Syndic 8 was hard to use. I got bogged down in this going through all of these sites. But I can see the usefulness of some of them.

Thing 8

2008-02-18T15:06:00.001-06:00

RSS feeds. I never really knew what these were. I had heard of them but had never explored. Now I realize what that symbol was. My school PTA president sends her newsletter as an RSS feed. Then I realized that MSNBC and CNN etc. were all RSS.
1. What do you like about RSS and newsreaders.-----It is so cool. I like that you can get up to date information.
2. How do you think you might be able to use this technology? I opened a google reader account and started 2 folders, one for news and one for blogs. Now I don't have to search every day for all of this info. I get a notice when something new comes up.
3. How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology? You could make your website or blog an RSS feed. The teachers at a school can have their students up to date on their websites.
Really cool stuff.

Thing 7

2008-02-13T15:47:00.001-06:00

GOOGLE is taking over----it is everywhere. I had fun looking at all of the google things that were listed, but I know there are even more than those on the google site. I played with all of them. I really liked the google notebook because I could see how it could be used with kids working in groups especially. They could all search and then share the notebooks. What a great way to get you research in order. We have used google scholar here for several years. since we are an IB school, our kids do pretty heavy duty research for all of their classes plus the big extended essay that everyone must write. It is a 4000 word essay and has to have extensive research. Who doesn't love google earth. I see kids playing on it all of the time. I have seen teachers use it in geography lessons and I am sure it could be used in lots of other areas as well.

Thing 6

2008-02-13T15:27:00.000-06:00

This site had lots of stuff in it and I kinda got lost going through all of it. Time can get away from you as you surf around. Mapr is very interesting. I had seen this used with a terrorist site that uses the map to show what terrorist activities are happening around the world at any given time.The site that lets you create magazine covers was interesting. Back in high school my boys had to creat a "man of the year" magazine cover and inside articles for a history class. I wish they could have used this site. I am going to attempt to make a mosaic using the pictures that I took when we took our IB students to use the Rice University library. This could be used to promote our IB program. So many thigns to go through ---so little time. I came back and made a trading card for my 7th grade teachers to see. I had introduced this to them to use with their Texas history charactors unit. It was fun and easy to do.

Thing 5

2008-01-23T15:17:00.000-06:00

I have played around on Flickr and learned quite a bit. A friend had actually used Flickr to share some photos that she had taken at a wedding of a fellow teacher. She was able to share these pictures with all of the other teachers. I played with a download of a picture of our school and it was easy. I even added a tag. I looked at the library groups and explored some of the posts of libraries all over the world. I could see how teachers could use this site to share photos that students were working on and also could share field trip photos. There are probably lots of other ideas that I haven't thought of. Come on some of you out there---what have you thought of?

thing 4

2008-01-23T14:10:00.000-06:00

I have registered my blog and have begun, but today I already had trouble remembering my username and password. It is hard having so many log-ins so I must now remember to start a folder so I remeber how to do all of this. I guess I am having to many senior moments. Plus it has been a week since I started my blog. Oh well---I will have to write every thing down from now on.

Thing # 3

2008-01-11T10:56:00.000-06:00

Well I didn't think I would get here, but here it is avatar and all. The avatar was fun, but too many choices--ha. Maybe it would have been more fun to have on a ball gown or a ski outfit or better yet---jammies. I went with jeans because that is what I am in when at home or traveling-- have to be comfy. My daughter-in-law blogs all of the time and that is how we keep up with their lives since they are so far from home. I always wondered how she did it, now I know.

Thing #2

2008-01-09T16:05:00.000-06:00

I have started to create my blog and this is my first post about Thing # 2. I was not a big fan of Steven Covey so this is hard for me to try to pick a favorite but I guess I would choose # 1 as my hardest one to do. I am not a goal setter. I usually just go with the flow. I think I would choose # 2 as my easiest one to do. I love to learn new things and read all of the time. I take a Bible study course on Tuesday nights that I find interesting and challenging.