1. I especially enjoyed creating an Avatar, learing about Flickr, creating in Pic Makr, and learning everything Google has to offer.
2. I enjoyed learning the "creative" things on the web to use in the future. Blogs are interesting and a good way to solicit others opinions.
3. Each Thing took anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours depending on the difficulty - I did not expect to spend that much time on 23 Things.
4. Provide very detailed directions as some of this is not intuitive.
5. Yes I would enroll in another program in the future.
6. Chalenging learning experience resulting in creating "fun" Things.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Thing 21 Podcast
This has been one of the toughest Things. I went to the Media Center for assistance this morning. The Photostory worked good once I understood and the text writing on the picture was easy. Unfortunately the audio was never able to work. Apparently several others have had this same problem and they have notified GEEK.
So lets keep our fingers crossed that the photo part of this podcast works!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Thing 22 Explore Nings
Yes I know this is out of order, but Thing 21 requires me to get my photos together before I can start. Therefore since Thing 21 will take some time I am working on Thing 22.
I looked at all the websites and focused more on the Ning for Teachers - Teacher Lingo. Nings can be a great way to provide communication on similar topics of interest. My first year teaching I taught a class that had no curriculum and I was constantly searching for topics on the Internet. I would have loved to have Teacher Lingo at that time. Teachers are great about helping each other but when you have to start from ground zero it can be difficult. Luckily through research and lots of teacher conversations, I developed more curriculum than I needed. It was a great learning experience for me and invisible to the students.
I can see that Nings would be very helpful in the classroom with student projects and other group activities.
I looked at all the websites and focused more on the Ning for Teachers - Teacher Lingo. Nings can be a great way to provide communication on similar topics of interest. My first year teaching I taught a class that had no curriculum and I was constantly searching for topics on the Internet. I would have loved to have Teacher Lingo at that time. Teachers are great about helping each other but when you have to start from ground zero it can be difficult. Luckily through research and lots of teacher conversations, I developed more curriculum than I needed. It was a great learning experience for me and invisible to the students.
I can see that Nings would be very helpful in the classroom with student projects and other group activities.
Thing 20 Revisited
Yeah I went to Vaughn the captain and she walked me through the process. Now this is a good Teacher Tube on Excel 2007!
Thing 20 YouTube, Teacher Tube and Zamzar
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=04c327ce88972bc528ec
I hope this shortcut takes us to Excel 2007 How to Use Autofill. I have been sitting here for hours watching all the videos and having fun. There were lots of videos in YouTube when I went in to search. Teacher Tube had no videos when I searched for MS Office or Business teaching. So I just went into Teacher Tube Most Viewed and played around until I found some videos.
The one I am attaching could take the place of my demo which is using one computer which displays on the whiteboard. Students are more interested when they try to figure it out with their classmates than when I conduct a demonstration. They also would rather have their classmates help them than the teacher. As long as they are completing the task correctly, classmates teaching works good for me.
I think videos are a great way to give students information in a different format than some of the standard teaching.
I hope this shortcut takes us to Excel 2007 How to Use Autofill. I have been sitting here for hours watching all the videos and having fun. There were lots of videos in YouTube when I went in to search. Teacher Tube had no videos when I searched for MS Office or Business teaching. So I just went into Teacher Tube Most Viewed and played around until I found some videos.
The one I am attaching could take the place of my demo which is using one computer which displays on the whiteboard. Students are more interested when they try to figure it out with their classmates than when I conduct a demonstration. They also would rather have their classmates help them than the teacher. As long as they are completing the task correctly, classmates teaching works good for me.
I think videos are a great way to give students information in a different format than some of the standard teaching.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Thing 19 Web 2.0 Awards List
Wow, the majority of these I have never heard of - so I went exploring. Next time I need to take a trip, go shopping, sell something, I am referring back to this great list. I will be sharing with my friends. This is great fun. Thanks for this list!
Thing 18 Online Productivity Tools
First I thought Google Docs would meet an email need. What an easy software to use for communicating interactively. We just need to get our co-workers signed up to use and get started.
Open Office is interesting. Sun Microsystems is a player in the specialized networking field and they are much smaller than they were in the 90's. I find it interesting they are offering this for free and just ask for your feedback (?). I think this is a great idea, I am just not sure how this would work. What happens when you want to integrate a Microsoft document into this system? I cannot see the general population making the paradigm shift from MS to Open Office. I have been using MS products for the last 20 years, so I think it could be an interesting alternative. I forgot to read about their security, did anyone read it?
Open Office is interesting. Sun Microsystems is a player in the specialized networking field and they are much smaller than they were in the 90's. I find it interesting they are offering this for free and just ask for your feedback (?). I think this is a great idea, I am just not sure how this would work. What happens when you want to integrate a Microsoft document into this system? I cannot see the general population making the paradigm shift from MS to Open Office. I have been using MS products for the last 20 years, so I think it could be an interesting alternative. I forgot to read about their security, did anyone read it?
Thing 17 Rollye
This has been a frustrating Thing. First I went ahead and loaded Mozilla Firefox on my home computer just to play around with it. The software was not a great tool with benefit and totally messed up my other settings. After I saw I could not make it work, I deleted it.
Then I went into Rollye and completed a Create Searchroll with several links. The file with the name Melle was saved and is no where to be found. This seems like it would be a great tool if I could figure it out.
Any ideas?
Then I went into Rollye and completed a Create Searchroll with several links. The file with the name Melle was saved and is no where to be found. This seems like it would be a great tool if I could figure it out.
Any ideas?
Thing 16 Wikis
These are pretty cool. I am going to get into my personal email and see if I can make dinner arrangements using wikis. Wish me luck.
I wrote a comment on the SBISD Wiki. However, since I did not want to type over someones comment I created a new page. I went back in after getting out and it is still there. I don't know if that was correct. I said this has been the most frustrating, exhilarating, exhausting, easy, hard, fun, simple, difficult, confusing,mind boggling, and crazy program I have taken. Thank you SBISD for offering this great learning experience. I cannot wait to see what happens during my next Thing!
I wrote a comment on the SBISD Wiki. However, since I did not want to type over someones comment I created a new page. I went back in after getting out and it is still there. I don't know if that was correct. I said this has been the most frustrating, exhilarating, exhausting, easy, hard, fun, simple, difficult, confusing,mind boggling, and crazy program I have taken. Thank you SBISD for offering this great learning experience. I cannot wait to see what happens during my next Thing!
Thing 15 Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the Future of Libraries
Libraries have to change to keep up with technology. They still have to meet the need of learning to read for small children, having reading lists and summer fun to encourage the reading. For older children and adults there has to be technology involved in the library offerings. I thought a good quote from the reading was "Librarian is a trend spotter". How true that in this age they have to keep up with the trends and those tend to be focused around technology. Librarians truly have to be change agents to embrace the technology changes that are coming our way.
I spent lots of time in the library while finishing graduate school in early 90's. Saturday mornings I would head to the Houston Public Library downtown as they had vast amounts of data for research. The Librarians were very helpful and once you knew the process it was easy to find data. I heard the downtown library reopened within the last year after remodeling - has anyone seen it? I think it is time to head downtown to take a look!
I spent lots of time in the library while finishing graduate school in early 90's. Saturday mornings I would head to the Houston Public Library downtown as they had vast amounts of data for research. The Librarians were very helpful and once you knew the process it was easy to find data. I heard the downtown library reopened within the last year after remodeling - has anyone seen it? I think it is time to head downtown to take a look!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Thing 14 Technocrati and How to Use Tags
I went back and looked at my Thing 9 which said Technocrati was too confusing. Now I wonder why as it now makes sense to me. It reminds me of searching an online newspaper with the categories at the top of the page. However, this is blogs. I am a little confused about the Technocrati Authority. The first definition said that it is the number of blogs linking to the website in the last 6 months. The highest number would be the number #1 blog. Then I read something that make me think it was the opposite to determine the number #1 blog. Anyone know how to determine the number#1 blog with the most number of blogs?
I thought it was interesting to see that Google and Yahoo are their competitors. Google Reader reminds me of Technocrati, although to me is more about news not blogs. Also I thought it was interesting that Yahoo purchased Del.icio.us in December 2005 and already owns Flickr. No wonder Bill Gates wants to buy Yahoo.
If your goal is to read other blogs on a topic, then I think Technocrati is the best tool. My only concern is that everyone knows about Google and Yahoo, but the non-tech group does not necessarily know about Technocrati.
I thought it was interesting to see that Google and Yahoo are their competitors. Google Reader reminds me of Technocrati, although to me is more about news not blogs. Also I thought it was interesting that Yahoo purchased Del.icio.us in December 2005 and already owns Flickr. No wonder Bill Gates wants to buy Yahoo.
If your goal is to read other blogs on a topic, then I think Technocrati is the best tool. My only concern is that everyone knows about Google and Yahoo, but the non-tech group does not necessarily know about Technocrati.
Thing 13 Del.icio.us
I had never heard of social bookmarking but it makes sense. I thought Del.icio.us and Furl were very user friendly and could find information on my interested topics. I found limited information on Ma.gnolia and did not find the site as easy to nagivate. I can see that we could use these sites for posting bookmarks for research for students while gathering information.
Thing 12 Finished
I blogged on several of the Library Two players websites. Several of the players are finding many interesting Things that are helpful. I think we are all getting into this!
I found blogs and commented on a couple about putting a microchip in a dog. I know that is a great way to keep track of pets, especially our "runners" that are too dumb to know what a good deal they have. Reading all the blogs I found that sometimes they are finding cancer localized to the microchip site - a good reason not to insert one. Also many vets do not have a microchip reader, like my vet. I don't plan on taking advantage of this, but plan to be a responsible dog owner that has dogs wearing clear id tags.
I found blogs and commented on a couple about putting a microchip in a dog. I know that is a great way to keep track of pets, especially our "runners" that are too dumb to know what a good deal they have. Reading all the blogs I found that sometimes they are finding cancer localized to the microchip site - a good reason not to insert one. Also many vets do not have a microchip reader, like my vet. I don't plan on taking advantage of this, but plan to be a responsible dog owner that has dogs wearing clear id tags.
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