2.0 Award Winners
I had fun looking around these winners. I first chose "food" and saw that I could watch a video of Paul McCartney making mashed potatoes! I saw another winner that said "Community Walk" and thought this could be helpful when we are studying local history. But, that was not the purpose at all. It was a place where people could share hotel ideas, for example. I have used Pandora quite a bit and like it a lot. The internal functioning of the site must be amazing in order for music of a similar type to be found. We are always teaching the kids how to be effective searchers, using appropriate keywords and I just wonder what the program for Pandora must look like! I need to play around with some more sites to think of good applications. Of course the Google map sites are invaluable, but it will be fun to discover some of the other useful places to take the kids.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Week 5 #10
Long ago, I used an image from ImageChef (the beach scene and I said Read on it). I had trouble loading it on my blog and one of my colleagues now has it on her blog. So, I had to try something new. Let's see if I can import the image! Yipee, it worked and I didn't have trouble. Success. The url for this is http://www.imagechef.com/ic/final_widget.jsp
I am thinking of student applications. Hmmm...I think the visual poetry application could be fun for kids to use (this is National Poetry Month, afterall).
Week 4 #9
I just added Jane Lofton's blog to my RSS feed and top news stories from SFGate. Still feels a bit like information overload.
Week 3 #7
New Technology
I have so much to learn. The path for downloading photos into my blog is still a bit problematic for me. I will master it before long. I also want to know why so many people are "atwitter" about twitter. Also need to understand about jing, too.
Shared with the teachers the use of a document camera--it is not new tech, but it was new to them. As a result of a PTA fundraiser, all teachers now have an LCD projector and a doc camera. That's exciting and they are thrilled.
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