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This is the link I followed for Thing 14. While I can see that this is a great way to organize your life it will take a good bit of effort to pull all the info together. If you get rid of your other calendars, lists, to-do’s, etc. this could be a cool way to organize your life. Until you are out and about and need info that is at home on your computer. If this could be accessed on your cell phone (and I’m sure it can if you have the right phone)  it would be more handy but until I graduate to that I still need my paper copies at home and at work. I will suggest this site to my engaged daughter. She would find this useful as she plans her wedding.  I don’t do a lot of social sharing (I am on Facebook but I only read I don’t participate) but if I did this site could also help manage that account also.

I listened to Leading the Change-Teaching Web2.0 Everthing You Need in One Place. After visiting www.teachweb2.wikispaces.com I was very impressed with the amount of helpful information I foune there. This will be my go to site for ideas and the most up-to-date links. This will now be in my favorites list as a professional tool. Thanks to the familiar site (thank you Stacey for the reading bowl wiki!) this is a tool I can navigate easily. I intend to direct my ESOL teachers to Brainpop for ESL students and spend time on Authorshare to improve the powerpoints I create ofr the daily news scroll. This site will be a source I turn to first for help with Web 2.0 questions and instructions.

I have been trying for the last 2 hours and I cannot figure out how to copy the code or embed anything. I have created a slideshow on “barns” on www.slide.com but cannot view anything on the “embedding a slide show” page.

Ok I have always been fascinated by old barns and the pictures on Flickr were great! Here is one of my favorites.

Image by Brent and MariLynn

I have not noticed any CC marks on websites but then I have not been looking for them (I will now though). I believe the amount CC impacts students will depend on how much they are taught about this beforehand. I have used clip art and book covers when teaching but not audio or video clips (I almost afraid to now with all the talk about copyright).  I don’t know who would own our teaching materials (Marietta City, MMS, me?)  The main negative I see with using CC is that the user may still not be aware of what is permitted and what is not.

Kindergarten Counting Book – Photos to show each number from 1 to 100. (Wetpaint now offers ad-free education wikis).                                     Salute to Seuss – Elementary students celebrate Dr. Seuss by reading his books and creating an online presentation. Click Student Gallery to view the final projects.                                                                                                Thousands Project – Each month, Mr. Monson’s fifth grade class posts a new question, hoping to receive 1000 responses from students and visitors from around the world.

The 3 Wiki’s I looked at are the ones listed above. One of the tings I liked best on the Wiki sites was the variety of material presented. The colorful pictures on Kindegarten Counting book make it a resource that would hold a young student’s attention from 1 to 100 (the number of missing pictures is disturbing, I thought it would be complete). On the Dr. Seuss wiki I hoped to get ideas about activities for Read Across America day. While I didn’t see anything appropriate for middle school in that area I did find info about Dr. Seuss that would be helpful on the morning news broadcast.

When I looked at the Thousands Project I wasn’t sure what I would find. Then I saw the Wiki and realized how broad such a Wiki could be. The questions could be about anything. I liked the sequential numbering of the items listed  (a quick way to see if the list were getting close to 1000), the variety was entertaining (duplication is permitted on the lists however) and the diversity of the participants (the teacher”s mother got in on some lists as well as students and other adults across the country.

While I loved the ideas in Wiki Wiki Teaching I am still having difficulty thinking of ways to incorporate these tools in my school where computer time is limited or non existant and home computers are not the norm. If every student walked into every classroom and sat down at a computer then teaching could become a completely different experience. Until then we are limited to teaching from one computer (attached to a smart board) and there is still a great need for pencils and paper.

I am thinking seriously about setting up a Wiki for Reading Bowl to have kids post the books they have read, make comments about the books and input questions so we can start practicing with the buzzers. We can work in the lab in the media center if they don’t have computer at home.

Does anyone else find this site to be slooow when typing or deleting or doing anything? I find myself waiting  a lot for the screen to catch up with me.

I not only enjoy reading Mrs. Yingling’s blog (http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/) but I find it very useful for the middle school librarian who doesn’t read long enough or fast enough to get to all the books she would like to read. I swear I think the woman must read a book a day! Not only does she give you a short synopsis of the book and her opinion of the book but there is also a good picture of the book that can be enlarged and printed. There is a place to comment on the reviews, a list of archived books and reviews and entertaining blogs about being a librarian. (see below)

Thursday, November 05, 2009

I just read about Linda (http://students2oh.org/2009/01/29/the-beginning/) and her trip through the college application process. I can see why this type of information would be both helpful and appealing to the struggling high school seniors. However, for my own interests, I will need to find a blog about middle aged empty nesters who still don’t have grandchildren and are just in the first few years of a career that they expect to last a long time. Any ideas anyone?

I have now viewed 5 blogs from the examples given. Now I will try to add a link to the blog I liked best. I am having trouble viewing my entire content. Is anyone else having this problem? http://duckdiaries.edublogs.org/2006/04/20/2nd-graders-write-about-our-missing-duck/. I don’t think my link is correct but not sure how to make it work I’ll keep trying.

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