Thing #7

Well...I was excited to try out Hulu, but disappointed in my search results. I tried to search for the old sitcom "Wings" I got everything from red wings to chicken wings to airwolf. But I did not get what I was looking for. I can see how Hulu would come in handy. The Simpsons has alot of episodes that could be incorporated into the curriculum. I am told they have done one on myths, and greek and roman gods, and that there are others. You could make the kids search for a releveant video. I found an excerp titled "Homer Plays Macbeth". It seems like most of the Simpsons videos are excerpts, not full videos. I am in LOVE with the Nova site. This is an amazing collection of videos. "Science Now" is great. The site is easy to use, attractive and well organized. I like using it much better than Hulu. So...I was told to try and download a video. I tried to do this on several different sites, Hulu, Nova, MSNBC, but I was not successful. I assume that I just don't know how to do it. I looked for "download" buttons or instructions, but could not find any. I need to move on, in order to finish this by the deadline.

Thing #6

Finally...something that I have already done, am familiar with, and feel relatively competent doing. I love browsing the app store, and downloading apps to my itouch. I love my itouch.
Didn't get the phone cause that would have meant $80 a month and I am NOT a phone talker, I get phone ear. But I love the games and the flashlight and music and even movies.
The itouch is totally rad, everyone should have one, they are beyond fun.
As far as using it with a class, I will have to give that some thought. There are games that you can play together and compete with each other, that might be something a class or group of students could do using the itouch.
LOVE IT!!!

Thing #3

I can see the appeal of Skype. I think the most exciting part would be to do a cross country project with a class in another country. Personally, I don't know anyone in another country, so I don't think I would use it for my own personal use. But for the class room I think the possibilities are endless.

Thing #3

I can see the appeal of Skype. I think the most exciting part would be to do a cross country project with a class in another country. Personally, I don't know anyone in another country, so I don't think I would use it for my own personal use. But for the class room I think the possibilities are endless.

Thing #2

I LOVE wordl, could spend hours playing BUT as far as I can tell I can only print it, or save to their gallery. What if I want to save it to my computer and have it for a ppt or an activboard slide, or part of an animoto? Can I do that? I also love Animoto, have done several on the summer reading books, and others just for fun. Am going to really push it hard next year to try and get a teacher that will use it. Trouble is, it is really short unless you pay. And if you pay, it has to be a credit card. Bookr is confusing for me. It says to go to flikr to find images, but you have to have a tag or know the name of a person that has photos on flikr? What if I don't have either. Didn't really like it that much. Played with voki, loved it, but am having trouble saving my avatar. I tried emailing it to myself, would love to post it on this blog. We'll see how it goes.
I made a new wordle, used the camera in activstudio to take a picture and put it on the clip board, then put it in photoshop and saved it as a jpg. Thank the stars for photoshop. Couldn't live with out it. Anyway, my wordle is on my blog.

Thing #1

I love common craft videos. They make things easy to understand. I think the librarian can do the job of the teacher. The librarian will teach connectivity, how to build the information network that students will create and use their entire scholastic career.

Wow, it's been almost a year since I have blogged. Guess that tells you why I am named "reluctant blogger" So, here we go again. I saw the Macs that we will be getting in the library, the 27" monitor ones. I think I am in love!