Mamaw

My "Mamaw" will be 100 years old on September 2nd. The graduate is her PRIDE AND JOY. He is in the Marines and is stationed in 29 Palms, California in the middle of the hot desert. He will deploy in April. Hopefully, he will get to come home for her party in September, I know that will be the best birthday present ever. Family is something that God is sharing with me, and everyday I THANK him for the privilege.

Thing 8

Tagging is a very helpful tool, when you list a few descriptions, it makes it easier when a person is searching for a specific subject. When assigning tags, you need to make sure that your tag is a word that makes sense and will be easy to understand. I had never tagged before, I will use it now.
Delicious is very user friendly, it was very easy to navigate around, since I have a yahoo account, it did not have me put in all the personal information. The video was so helpful to me. When I see it being done, it is easier for me to remember, instead of reading the instructions. Bookmarking and tagging is a easier and faster way to find what you are looking for, I can see students using tagging and bookmarking without any problems.

THING 7

Thing 7 was actually one of the lessons that I felt a little more at ease with. I watch the video, looked at some other google docs and I thought, okay, I can do this. So I went to google doc, once, twice, three times and I could not find the document. I signed on, off, on, and finally, I had to call for HELP. It was not me, yahoo......the doc was not shared with me so I could not get on it, now it is and I am done.
I would use google doc to work on a project with other teachers, even family members if we are planning something. I think it is a great tool. Sometimes other people can say things in a different way and you go, that is what I wanted to say, just could not get the wording right.
I think that if students use it or when they use it, they will have to monitored, and that may be a little time consuming for the teachers, but if used correctly, I do think it would be good for them to share ideas.

Thing 6

I have to say that I had a little trouble with embedding the video from youtube. I did finally get it done. It is a great tool, and I will use it more. I listen to a few podcast and I did enjoy them, it is a great thing to be able to pick what you want to listen to. Radio has way to much stuff that I do not even care to hear. Podcasting is a great tool for people that have something to say about a certain subject and they can share it with people that have the same interest, and you can take it with you if you are running, driving, riding a bike, just about anywhere. I did enjoy THING 6.

Thing 6

I am a American Idol junkie, but I do not start watching it weekly until they weed out some of the crazy people. I love music, all types of music. When Lee sang this song on American Idol, it touched me. I knew he would win after this performance. Lee is very humble and when he sings, it is from the heart, just watch and you will see.

Thing 5

What I enjoyed about wiki is that I am able to learn even more on the web. I am definitely going to come out of this course a winner. I had no idea what all was out there. The difference between the blog and wiki, blogging is you posting your thoughts and someone reading them, the wiki is you posting something and another person, or people can add to your post. Students would benefit from the wiki in numerous ways, they can do math problems, they could do planning with many other students, and include the teacher also. I do like the wiki, I think students will be more open to use them because it is the way of the future, and our kids are our future. The only thing I do worry about is, there are still families that do not have computers in the homes, that will make it almost impossible for them to participate when others can, unless we allow them to use our labs at school.

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Thing 4

I have had a great time with Thing 4. I have played around with it for more time than I want to admit. Downloading the pictures,I sort of knew about from doing some christmas gifts and I also have made some collages. Now the image-generator is another story, I have always joked about cut and paste, that to me is with scissors and glue, but I did learn how to copy and paste, thanks to Krystel. This would be great for kids to learn, kids of all ages in fact will benefit from this lesson. This would be fun to put words under pictures we can take in P.E.
One thing I have learned is when you change your layout, it does not always work with the way you have pictures, so again, a learning curve for me, but I LOVE IT!

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