Saturday, August 25, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Week 9 - Thing 23
As to my favorite moments using SLL 2.0, I'd include the Rollyo on dyslexia as it was so quick to put together having a Special Ed. background. Del.icio.us also was exciting since it looks like it could be easily organized and then searched by teachers and students. It was a special joy to be following directions that worked. This gave me courage. Perhaps I will go forward into HTML and setting up web pages.
It was quite a pleasant surprise to locate an old friend while playing with the blogging spots. I am a great believer in serendipitous searching. However, as there is so much on the web, this overview of 2.0 tools sped up what could have taken much longer.
There are probably a couple one-sentence comments to be made about this experience. One is that knowing about the internet can be real power with many young people.
The blog will prove to be helpful as a teaching reflection site. I will remember to include noteworthy yet relevant keywords so blog searches will pick up the ones I wish to share.
It was quite a pleasant surprise to locate an old friend while playing with the blogging spots. I am a great believer in serendipitous searching. However, as there is so much on the web, this overview of 2.0 tools sped up what could have taken much longer.
There are probably a couple one-sentence comments to be made about this experience. One is that knowing about the internet can be real power with many young people.
The blog will prove to be helpful as a teaching reflection site. I will remember to include noteworthy yet relevant keywords so blog searches will pick up the ones I wish to share.
Week 9 - Thing 22 - eBooks
World eBook Fair has offered free downloads of books from July 4 to August 4 since 2006. This fair is sponsored by the World Public Library. The World Public Library has classic books in childrens' and science fiction plus many government publications. There is a selection of audio books. These are both related and linked to Project Gutenberg. Gutenberg promotes free ebooks and has a variety. You can RSS feed it to your homepage to get daily updates on newly added books.
The Best Places to Get Free Books led to Daily Lit which allows one to subscribe to books in daily/weekly installments on their RSS feed. I subscribed to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, as it is one of the ALA Library selections. It is in 24 installments. I would go for 48 to get fewer words per day - more like a daily words of wisdom.
The Best Places to Get Free Books led to Daily Lit which allows one to subscribe to books in daily/weekly installments on their RSS feed. I subscribed to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, as it is one of the ALA Library selections. It is in 24 installments. I would go for 48 to get fewer words per day - more like a daily words of wisdom.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Week 9 - Thing 21
August 18, 2007
PodcastAlley had a good list of library productions as did Podcast.net. I preferred the latter because it had a description with the title without having to click on anything. This made for faster skimming. I visited Bookvoyages and listened to a couple podcasts.
Sirsi Dynix Institute turned up in each search. I downloaded Sirsi Dynix onto my iTunes. Later, I saw that you could make an RSS feed with it. You could send it to Bloglines but not Blogspot, so I sent it to my Google homepage. Now there is a whole section on the Google page just for Sirsi. Maybe, in retrospect, I'll put it in the Reader. It's hard to imagine having an hour though, to listen to their podcast.
Educational Podcast Directory has a lot of stuff which I will need to look at a little at a time. The one I started to listen to turned out to be a bit different than what was expected. I little more direction as to which podcasts are worth listening to would be helpful.
PodcastAlley had a good list of library productions as did Podcast.net. I preferred the latter because it had a description with the title without having to click on anything. This made for faster skimming. I visited Bookvoyages and listened to a couple podcasts.
Sirsi Dynix Institute turned up in each search. I downloaded Sirsi Dynix onto my iTunes. Later, I saw that you could make an RSS feed with it. You could send it to Bloglines but not Blogspot, so I sent it to my Google homepage. Now there is a whole section on the Google page just for Sirsi. Maybe, in retrospect, I'll put it in the Reader. It's hard to imagine having an hour though, to listen to their podcast.
Educational Podcast Directory has a lot of stuff which I will need to look at a little at a time. The one I started to listen to turned out to be a bit different than what was expected. I little more direction as to which podcasts are worth listening to would be helpful.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Week 9 - Thing 20
This is a newer version of The Book. (It has an additional scene at the end!) I've enjoyed viewing this each time I've run into it.
I looked at and enjoyed all the videos listed on the Web 2.0 page. In spending more time with You Tube, I discovered that there are some extremely sickening violent ones to view - so watch out! You too can hold your stomach for 15 minutes. On the other hand, running into these and watching them could help one define him or herself by determining what is desirable versus what needs to be avoided or cured in life.
Teacher Tube crashed both times I accessed it using Firefox 2.0.0.6, while Yahoo's collection kept timing out.
I looked at and enjoyed all the videos listed on the Web 2.0 page. In spending more time with You Tube, I discovered that there are some extremely sickening violent ones to view - so watch out! You too can hold your stomach for 15 minutes. On the other hand, running into these and watching them could help one define him or herself by determining what is desirable versus what needs to be avoided or cured in life.
Teacher Tube crashed both times I accessed it using Firefox 2.0.0.6, while Yahoo's collection kept timing out.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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