Week 3 Thing 7

I set up my igoogle page and the RSS feed for teacher tube and Ed Teacher. Now igoogle is my homepage....love the gadgets. I have a To Do list and several feeds going on it. Nice organization tool.

I did not want to sign up for the recommended 5 feeds as I did not want to be bogged down w/ more info than I need or am ready to have at this time. Sometimes too much too fast can be overwhelming and a turn off. I will just enjoy what I have selected for now and go from there.

Week 2 Thing 6

I spent about 2 hours on glogster and glogster edu sites. Although interesting, I did not see anything unique or different about them that I could not accomplish in my classroom using power point or just a regular uploaded video that I created or am using from teachertube or even youtube. Did I miss something? Also, I found the normal glogster much easier to navigate than the edu version. Again, did I miss something here?

If I taught middle/high school I would allow students to use glogster for presentations. In kindergarten I am really guiding the work and doing the data compilations, so like I said, the other sites I already use serve my purpose much better. I found several primary videos that illustrated phonics ideas. But again, the kids were not creating them (which is fine) so I would prefer to stick w/ teacher tube. From teachertube I can post the videos on my website for parents and kids to view.

I created accounts to try and work in them, but don't think I will return...at least to the edu slideshare account.

Week 2 Thing 5

Here is a neat little mashup for Flickr. This one organizes recent pictures to teach children phonics. If you click the letter E it shows pictures that were tagged w/ the word elephant. Kids could make their own picture alphabet book.

Alpha Learner

I can see using the Map mashup in Kindergarten when I teach our planner on basic needs. This mashup allows you to view photos from a certain area based on the tag.

Map

Week 2 Thing 4 continued

I set up a Flickr account and added a picture of DCC that I took and some pictures of my son. Here is the link to the DCC picture

Discovery Canyon Campus Lower Level

Flickr is a a pretty easy site to navigate and learn about. I like that you can link pictures w/ your FB account and your FB friends can view them.

Week 2 Thing 4

My brother is a web designer/graphic designer and my sister is a senior in high school (PC)and will be studying K-12 art education at Adam's State next year. Both of them use Flickr. My brother has more than 300 pictures on flicker. I like this one just because of the event. He lives in the city (NYC-"the city" to us New Yorker's) and went to Colbert Report. Steven Colbert threw his bump bracelet right in his lap and told him "good catch." We love Colbert!



In this picture my brother snapped a car that spontaneously combusted in the middle of time square. Always something going on in NYC! He keeps us updated on all the important things in life through his flicker stream.

And finally, the culminating event in my brother's life...this fortune cookie tells all! It says, Time to get some professional help. (All photos are courtesy of my little brother Mykal Cave)

Avatar

The assignment said to add an avatar in the classroom, office, school...I already had this avatar on yahoo avatar, so I just kept it. I guess you could say it was in a school...it's a college hockey uniform!

Getting Organized

I am bookmarking all these websites and setting up a folder for the web 2.0 class. I enjoy technology, but all that it is out there can be overwhelming. best to get organized now so I can stay on task.