Thing #12

I have found that Google was more than just a search engine some time ago! After using the many options Google has to offer on their site, you will find that it has so much more than meets the eye. I know that I found Google to be more than a best friend sometimes. Even when I was late getting started on an assignment, it was always there waiting to help me! There's an educational help right off the top!! Using Google has sometimes helped in too many ways known, likewise considering it a best friend!! Things I have found to be very useful were those such as Google Earth, and Google notebook. Using Google earth, you can search and find lesson plans for classes. You can look at houses you are interested in buying. You can even look at the distance between two points to see how far and long it would be to make a trip.

Thing #11

Now that I'm finally starting to get a grasp on this stuff, it's beginning to make more and more sense.. It seems as if the more I do for this project, the easier some things in life get!! This RSS has opened doors I never thought would be seen!! After using it for a little bit, I have found myself subscribing to numerous things.. Such things as MSN, K12 online conference and flat classroom project. After subscribing and beginning to follow some of these things, I found that some I wasn't that interested in.. haha I did look at the Dallas news and seem interested being that I would have used that a couple weeks ago when we took a road trip to Dallas!!

Thing #10

I have found that RSS feeds and newsreaders to be very interesting because they allow you to combine all the many things you are trying to track into one place. Accessible from one place instead of worrying about having to go from one thing to another just to find the smallest piece of information you need to start your day.

Using this in the classroom setting could be for something like tracking everyone's blogs! That would be an easy way to track and see when everyone posts a new one or just to check up on things!!

My shared link-

http://www.google.com/profiles/dusty.brady

Thing #9

All of these are really cool things to be able to use. After looking at them for myself and creating such, it becomes a fun and exciting activity for someone to do. I think that if I were to have my class make their own word mosaics from papers discussing their favorite hobbies, it would get quite interesting. You could even do favorite Christmas stories, and have them write summaries to post in the hallway for other students to look over and see with the whole idea and picture just being their first initial in their name!

Thing #8

My favorite subject in my younger years was spelling. This is why I chose the spell with flickr mashups site. I found it to be very interesting showing the many different ways to spell words and such. Things you can post on a powerpoint and such and have the students to look at for many different reasons. These mashups could also be used by creating ideas for spelling activities or to write the spelling words on a poster to hang in the wall. However you may want to use this, it can be very beneficial to you and the students as well!!

Thing #7

Flickr is something new to me as well as the many other things in this class. After getting on it and searching the many things I did, I found this website to be comparable to those such as Facebook and Myspace. I know that it's not the same but when my best friend posts like 3,000 pics on facebook and has to tag and comment on every one of them, you can start to see the resemblance between the 3. By using Flickr, I found some really neat photos! Some of which were of some of my favorite hobbies, like football, and baseball, and even riding dirt bikes! The one I found to be the most interesting was this one of the rider pulling off this trick and the picture being taken from point blank range! Hope others enjoy this as well as I did! This photo was posted by MX Shooter.

Thing #6

Winning 1st place in the Classifieds and Directories category was Craigslist. This is something I have been found to be using on a daily basis. This is a web 2.0 tool that is growing day by day with the amount of things and options available for people to use. I found Craigslist to be a source of too many things to name. It has everything! Such examples found are Cars and Trucks for sale, discussions about crafts, all the way to a lost and found section for the local community. You can search for jobs here, there, or anywhere. Looking for a mate from Argentina-- You can find it all on Craigslist. It is unspeakable of all the many capabilities you have once on this web 2.0 tool. I believe that Craigslist could be used in the school systems by using such categories as the discussion boards to either talk about or debate certain topics, to searching for jobs in a particular place in the world, to even volunteering for community service projects.

http://clarksville.craigslist.org/

http://clarksville.craigslist.org/search/vol?query=+

http://clarksville.craigslist.org/search/edu?query=+

Thing #5

With the world advancing, technologically speaking, on a day by day basis as it is today, we shouldn't be far from reaching a time where everything is electronic and computer driven. Not only industrial, but also in education. Since I've graduated high school and barely knew anything about powerpoint, kids are beginning to make powerpoints now at the age of 6. With that in mind, you can imagine the rate at which technology is changing in the world. A new thing I am beginning to learn about is Web 2.0. After viewing some of the web 2.0 websites and programs, I am finding this new ordeal to be a vital key in future educational learning! Being able to watch someone live using one of the web 2.0 tools could be very beneficial to teachers as well as students. If someone were absent because they were sick and had access to a computer somehow to pull up the web 2.0 would give them access to the daily agenda and lessons taught. This would help tremendously in the aspect of those who miss school all the time and just expect to hop right back into things when the lessons they missed were key to learning the ones that come in the future. The only question I have for things as advanced as such would be to ask if this would benefit society or not as far as attendance-wise. Being that one could just skip out whenever they would like and still have the lesson. Which in the end, one of the lesson's learned it being somewhere on time such as for a job..

Thing #4

Blogging is becoming somewhat interesting. I know it has been a while since I have written on here or even thought about school work in general. So I'm finally back in action. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I'm finished!

By commenting on others' posts, it helps in creating somewhat of a relationship between people. It lets you in a sense create a conversation with one another or let someone know where you stand on a certain situation.

Two of the points I found in the blogger commenting to be the most important were communication and others' perspectives. I haven't commented on anyone's blogs as of yet. That will come in time! Especially since we have till the end of the semester to do this part. Another thing that will help out is when I become more acquainted with this whole blogging process.