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Week 9 -- Thing 23

2008-04-27T18:27:00.001-07:00

Lifetime Learning -- This has been a great experience. I feel so good to have completed the program, but I am also glad that I will use the things that I have learned. This has not only benefited me, but will also benefit my students. I think overall the most useful thing that I learned was to use the web as a tool. I think that the blog will be very useful in my classroom and that all of the other tools we explored can be used through that format. Thanks so much for getting me started on this adventure of life long learning.

Week 9 -- Thing 22

2008-04-27T18:13:00.001-07:00

eBooks and Audio eBooks -- I really like the Gutenberg Project and I love audio eBooks. This is a great way to get students to realize the world that is beyond their front door. I think that this can cause the students to begin to desire more in their lives and therefore help them to become more successful students and adults.

Week 9 -- Thing 21

2008-04-27T18:03:00.000-07:00

Podcasts -- I enjoyed the podcasts. I found a few that are math related. It is so good to be able to get a new prespective on how to make this subject interesting to students. I think that podcasts can be very beneficial.

Week 9 -- Thing 20

2008-04-27T17:39:00.000-07:00

I love youtube! It is sooo much fun. I think it must be one of the most popular sites of all times. You can find anything there. Here is a video that I found and thought that it would be very inspirational for my students. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuOyBFEAylU

Week 8 -- Thing 19

2008-04-27T17:21:00.001-07:00

Every time I discover a new site, I think that I've seen it all. Yet here is another great place -- LibraryThing. I loved it. As a teacher, this will be a great tool to use for a class or school blog. I love this place.

Week 8 -- Thing 18

2008-04-27T16:53:00.000-07:00

The Zoho Word processor is very nice. I really like the different options it has over the standard word processors that I generally use. The fact that you can use it from any computer and that it is compatiable to more users is very attractive. It was also very user friendly.

Week 7 -- Thing 17

2008-04-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

I checked out the California cl2.0 website and put an entry in the sandbox. I did not really get a lot from the site. Maybe I was not looking in the right places.

Week 7 -- Thing 16

2008-04-27T13:58:00.000-07:00

Wikis ~~ Fantastic tool for the library. I loved the wikis that I viewed. It makes research so easy. I also love that the librarian is available for chats. I think wikis can also be used in the classroom. The ones that I looked at were great, allowing both teacher and student access to information from each other. The student will no longer have to worry about missing an assignment because it is available online. Parents can also see what their students and teachers are doing.

Week 5 -- Thing 12

2008-04-27T13:43:00.000-07:00

Complete. At last, I had a hard time getting the Rollyo search on my blog. Of course, I finally discovered that I was not reading all of the instructions. How many times do tell our students, "Read ALL of the instuctions before you begin."? Now, I have personal experience to tell them that it really does help.

Week 5 -- Thing 11

2008-04-27T13:03:00.001-07:00

Checking out the Web 2.0 awards list was fun. I found many that I liked. I love organization, so those were the first that I looked at. I think that any of the three listed -- Google Apps, Zoho, or Backpack could be wonderful tools for professionals or non-professionals. For fun, I really liked the music Pandora. Here you list the type of music or artists that you like and a radio station is created that plays your type of music. How fun is that!!

Week 5 -- Thing 10

2008-04-27T12:19:00.000-07:00

I am a little out of sequence with my week 5, but here I am, at last. I actually played with the generator during the "real" week 5. However, I was so undecided about what to put on my page that I got behind with all of the assignments. The generator is fun and has the potential to add lots of energy to blogs and other Web assignments.

Week 6 -- Thingy 15

2008-04-26T17:41:00.000-07:00

While reading the prespectives about Library 2.0, I really liked many of the ideas. To me, it would be great to have instant messaging and to be able to meet with different users online. Another great idea is to have weblogs and wikis. I also thought that the prespective about controlling "technolust" was very good. As always, our use of technology should be based on its usefulness.

Week 6 Thingy 14

2008-04-23T19:21:00.000-07:00

Technorati -- this is a pretty neat search method. I like using the tags and searching for blogs. It will really be helpful while doing research.

Week 6 -- Thingy 13

2008-04-23T19:01:00.000-07:00

I really, really like this new way to save my favorites. This is actually an area where I have had issues with my favorites list. Many times, I have needed to access the list from a remote computer, now it is available. Yea!! This is Del.icio.us.

Week 4 Thing 9

2008-03-31T17:14:00.000-07:00

I found a very useful website for me to learn how to use blogs and newfeeds in my math classroom. The site is: www.http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com . This site had lots of good information, as well as examples of how to use blogs in a math class. It was very neat. One teacher put a probablity project on the blog. The students did the project as a group and then had to answer questions using comments to the blog. Each student had their own label, so the teacher knew when each person had completed the assignment. I am so glad to see the different ways that technology can be used in school.

Week 4 Thing 8

2008-03-31T16:56:00.000-07:00

It has taken me a long time to get my RSS feeds going. Life seems to get in the way sometime. However, I must say that now that I have done it, I can see that this is something that can be really useful. Basically, a time saver with everything located in one spot. Of course, it also gives me access to so much for information than I thought possible. I really want to explore more, so that I can really personalize my feeds. It would also be a great tool in school. The teacher could have the feeds listed that the students would need to look at or the students could share feeds that they found to be helpful in their assignments.

Technology Interest -- Week 3 Thing 7

2008-02-24T13:42:00.001-08:00

This has been so much fun. Learning something new and it's actually fun. I had a hard time getting started, but now I find that I'm having a hard time stopping. One thing that I love about technology is it's convenience and adaptability. Right now I am sitting in a big swing in my back yard, way out in the country, using a laptop. There are no wires connecting me or restricting me in any way. I am so relaxed and yet the world is at my fingertips. I know that sometimes technology is a pain, but it is also a very vital part of today's society. I am very glad to be learning and growing in my knowledge and usage of this tool.

Mappr -- Week 3 Thing 6

2008-02-23T23:06:00.000-08:00

Mappr is a very interesting. I have always enjoyed maps very much and I like to mark all the places in the world that I have friends. This program makes it easy to create some very unique maps with wonderful pictures. This could really be neat to use in the classroom while studying almost any subject.

Flickr -- Week 3 Thing 5

2008-02-23T22:21:00.000-08:00

I have just spent a couple of hours on Flickr. What a neat site. The pictures there are awesome. I just sat and looked and looked, some more. I wanted to share all of the pictures with my husband. I just knew that he would love them, too.

I have put one of the pictures on this blog. It is a picture of a sunset. This is just about my favorite time of day. So, I thought that this picture would be appropriate for my blog. There is also a link to some other sunset pictures.

Blogging -- Week 2

2008-02-23T19:14:00.000-08:00

I'm blogging! How exciting. This is a new experience for me and I must admit that I am enjoying it. Who knew? Of course, creating the avatar was fun also. However, my 19 year old son tells me that I'll have to make some changes and give myself a little more character. After all being Battwoman requires a special look. I guess he's right. We'll see what we can come up with.

Being a Lifelong Learner -- Week 1

2008-02-07T16:57:00.000-08:00

Being a lifelong learner has great rewards. While on the quest I have discovered that there are habits that a lifelong learner must acquire. Some of them seem to come naturally to me. For instance, setting goals and taking responsibility for my own learning has always been very easy for me. It is also natural for me to turn to technology when I need answers to life's many questions. However, there is one habit that is very hard for me and that is to take time to play. My children say that I am a workaholic and that I never take time to relax. So, I can see that my greatest challenge in becoming a lifelong learner will be for me to learn to relax and play.