Thing 12

The Flickr site was interesting and I can see the value as a quick way to access photos and short videos. I found a few short videos that I believe would be useful in the classroom. They were on youtube, so I am not sure if i can use them publicly. It would be nice to have them organized on flickr and not have to search through youtube everytime-almost like a mini library on the desktop. The photo upload would be useful to organize photo's of important people in what ever time period we are in for a quick to the point exhibit.
I believe that the down fall would be checking the content for the students to explore the photos. You could add specific info on your blog for them to find;however, there is always that student who is an adventurer, and will explore where you do not want them to. Although that it how many great discoveries have been made, I do not want to be responsable (or accountable) for that students parents response.

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Thing 11

Well I made it!!! I really enjoyed this class, although I must admit that I came close to throwing my computer at someone or something. I do not feel I did everything exactly as planned, but I finished. I had a few bumps in the road with the site, and I became a bit frustrated. But here I am, a new year, and much wiser of my knowledge and understanding of web 2.0. I now have to implement these new items right away, because we all know we lose it if we do not use it! That said, I know the Google Docs and slideshare will become something I familiarize myself further. I hope I become more organized and utilize the Delicious account to help me. I believe my colleagues will benefit from this information and we can collaborate and share what we know and what we are learning. My first blog I was very concerned with the safety issue with so much connection to the outside world, I believe I feel better about it because I realize I can utilize these sites, but put in parameters.The challenge is to put this into action, and watch our students shine and amaze us in a whole new way. I hope that I can shine and show that this old dog has few new tricks, and this fat(ish) lady has in no way begun to sing. With those old cliques I will leave my blog now, but I do hope we continue this going and discover many more "things" together.

Milkweed

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Milkweed

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Thing 10

Here is the web adress to my survey;

Thing 10

Thing 8

I was so excited that I created so much on Google Docs, I forgot to tell you about it. I found this site to be so wonderful. I could make a document, then add sites to go to and fill out notes about what they viewed. I believe I will use this site for many things. I can see this another organizational tool for me and hope to master this area and utilize it for all of my classes. I want to play around more on this site to find out how much more I can find. Maybe in the next 11 things to do with web 2.0.