Thing # 21

This activity led me to many of the directories, but I liked the education podcast network the best. I had a hard time finding educational material on the other directories. From here, I went to the Professional Philosophy and ICT site. This brought down a menu of many sources of which I picked the Kidcast: learning and teaching with podcasting in the classroom. This was very useful and very well explained as to how a teacher would go about using the podcast in a room of students ~ the organizing of students, materials and producing/presenting acceptable results. There were many subjects coverred on this topic over many years, so much was learned throughout the process. I tried many times to link this to my Google account, but it would not accept the feed, so I am not sure what the problem was, but I can continue to try it again as I would like to see how this evolves.

Thing # 20

On YouTube I found some very interesting sites. One of particular interest was called TheFamousStacie at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=33DF64653C52557C. This mother has a son named Cougar that loves to make videos, so she made several where she taped him coloring Easter eggs and then another video was the reading of Peter Rabbit which was absolutely beautifully done !! The music and correlation of subject matter was gorgeous. Another site on this page was Cougar and his love of school. It was cute and I enjoyed it very much !

Thing #19

This site had to do with flow charts and I found it different from other things we have done. I signed on to Gliffy and Bubble.us ~ Gliffy reminded me of Kidspiration with the extensions and information you could enter in that site. I found it a little hard to use and not as extensive as others we have had staff developments in using, but it was fine. Bubble.us, on the other hand, was fun to play with and I found that using this as a diagram for a floor plan was intriguing. There were alot of tools to use on this site and it was insightful. Of the two, Bubble.us was my favorite.

Thing # 18

This was a website that you could spend all semester on ! It was incredible with the number of websites on just the short version. I chose the retail site from the Web 2.0 Awards and then the 2nd place chart of winners entitled Etsy. Etsy is the place to buy and sell all things handmade so it was chocked full of everything imaginable !! A column on the left categorized the items by subject matter and then further broke down the accessories. There was even one part that listed items that were updated every 15 seconds which was neat ! This was very well designed and categorized so items could be bought and sold easily.

Thing #17

I found the Zoho writer very easy to use and very easy to sign in on. I especially like all the bookmarks available in plain view to use in the documents which make it easy to insert in the document you are preparing. I did not print anything out, but imagine that a document would be just as simple to do that as well.

Thing #16

I read and looked at all the sandbox wikis and found it very interesting. I especially like how the subject matter is categorized for easy placement of information. However, I became very frustrated trying to upload my picture to the generator image page where I felt my image was best suited. I was never able to get it transferred, so I just kept it on my desktop and will try later. I also went back to myspace and tried to set up an account again, but still get the 'technical error' message after four attempts. Something is wrong, so I will get outside help to get this solved.

Thing #15

This was a very insightful exercise all about wikis. It is basically a site that emphasizes collaboration between students, teachers, or any groups of people in any kind of setting. It seems the most user friendly of all sites we have studied and is the only one that can be modified by each user, so everyone has an opinion and can express it if dedired. It includes a broad range of people so can be used quite effectively in connecting the community to the library. Within the library, it could be used as a great source to enhance the online catalog as a subject guide by the patrons or even post reviews by the users. In the classroom, students could collaborate with each other quite effectively and teachers could use this as an excellent source to eliminate that never ending lost homework excuse. Reaching out to the community by posting newsworthy information to the people via wiki would be a real asset to the library's reputation as well.
I think this is a very viable tool for a large population of people.