Thing #23

Okay...I've got to hurry. I'm almost out of time. There were really so many amazing things that it's hard to come up with just one...or even just a few that were my favorite. I liked Big Huge Labs and all that they had to offer. I think some of them will be great to use with younger students. And, I do like the podcast/vidcast thing...even though I'm having trouble with it.

One word to sum it all up??? Awesome!

I think I'd like to try the 11.5 things next summer. I did enjoy learning....but I think I shouldn't have procrastinated!

Thing #22

Nings! I did look at this site and floated around. I just couldn't bring myself to register for another site! I do think it has a lot to offer....when the time permits. There was a discussion on RtI....which was good. I also found a post about a collaborative early childhood site that offers activeboard lessons. That's something I'll go back and find to share with primary teachers on my campus. Do Nings have value...yes....I just don't think I can put the time into it right now :(

And....Blogger has decided that it thinks I am a bot....so I am now having to verify for every post that I create!

Thing #21

Okay......I've done the audio...don't like it .... again! And the video....I'm having trouble with! I've been working on this for the last six hours (with the exception of nicotine breaks to deal with my frustration) with no luck! I'm going to do the audio one more time and then post it...good or bad. I don't know what to do about the video. I've taken video of my screens but can't seem to get it together.

I'll be back to drop in the audio...gotta take care of the other things before time runs out!

Juggling and the center of mass

Juggling and the center of mass

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Thing #20

Way too many things to see here! But, I decided to try and post this video on juggling and the center of mass...it just looked fun!


Okay....I'm having major trouble getting my chosen video into my blog without covering up items in my sidebar. I can't seem to change the size. I tried converting through zamzar, but keep getting a message that the file is not compatible with wmv, flv, wav, or avi. So, can anyone help me on this one???

Thanks!

I've posted the video in a separate posting titled Thing #20 B above. Thanks, Vaughn!

Thing #19

I checked out a few sites but was most interested in the TuDiabetes. I've been looking for sites that focus on this particular health issue and have found some good ones. But this you can actually become part of a group by state - which is nice. The layout was easy for me to follow - and they actually had several topics listed that are current and active (which I've been looking for). So, I know this isn't educational for the classroom...but it will be a good move for me personally.

Thing #18

GoogleDoc is what I chose to explore. I like the fact that I can collaborate with people using this feature. Rather than going back and forth with emails, we can all access one document and make changes.

Thing #17

Rollyo....rolling away! This was a great site. I can see how using this site will save students much time and lessen confusion. It's a nice way to narrow down the sites by ensuring that students only access 'safe' sites. Bruce's video was a great tool to watch. He covered things in a way that was simple to understand and took me step by step on how to create my search roll:

http://rollyo.com/vengar/venegas_trial/

I like the fact that I can explore other rolls and edit them to fit my specific needs.

Thing #16

Amazing! Talk about making life easier. There are some times when emails really get out of control. I think that using a wiki would make it a lot easier to have an ongoing collaboration. It's really hard sometimes to set up a meeting time...I'm cc-ing everyone and they're cc-ing me....and ten of us are cc-ing each other....totally out of control.

Setting up the wiki to 'hold' these conversations makes a lot more sense. I looked at the PBwiki...which now comes up as PBworks.com . I'd really like to see how their classroom wiki works. They mention that students don't need to have an email account.

Thing #15

I remember walking downtown to the library as a young adult and spending hours there...sometimes leaving with a book, album, or sometimes with nothing at all. But it was a fun afternoon for me. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore....if I'm looking for information, I just get online and search the web for it. Music? I log on to iTunes and download what I want. So, what do school libraries have to offer today's students?

A lot. As Rick Anderson, in "Away from the Icebergs" mentions, libraries have to make the move from 'come to me' to "let me show you what I have." But, where does that start? With the teacher asking? With the campus librarian offering? What if neither of the two occur? Then what? Who gets the short end of the stick on that one?

That it needs to happen is not the question...nor do I think that anyone would disagree with that. The bigger issue is who's going to start making it happen?

Thing #14

Tag! I claimed my blog. I think that technorati can help me sift through all the info that's out there. I've done searches before and found sites that had information that I was looking for - but I never really knew whether the source was reputable. Technorati will allow me to search for entire blogs about a topic, but more importantly will let me see how much of an authority the site is.

I just hope my blog can hit the magic middle number of 20! LOL

Thing #13

Del.icio.us What a great site! How out of touch am I, really. I never knew anything like this existed. Who would have thought that I could have all of my bookmarks on any computer that I would ever use...anywhere! The entire organization of the sites is cool. I go back to an earlier post about Glogster and my conversation with B. Foye. I had thought about saving several examples to my flashdrive to share with students; now I can just save them to my del.icio.us account and tag them as 'examples' or 'projects' or whatever. I can pull them up and have them grouped by licking on the tag. I think this will save me quite a bit of time.

I'm wondering if registering as a classroom and making sure that del.icio.us is on each computer would make it easier to make sites available to students - as opposed to sitting at each computer and entering in the url.

I like the fact that I can opt to keep bookmarks private and share only those that I want to share. This would be useful if I create a classroom account.