Thing 9

I had never been on You Tube before now. My kids have shown me some videos, but I have not explored it until now. People could spend a lot of time on there (like every other web site we've learned about), but I didn't think it was wonderful. Maybe I'm not into watching amateur videos about nothing. I'm really not quite sure how this could be incorporated into the classroom, especially since You Tube is blocked in our district.

Thing 8

I actually had a lot of fun with this "thing". My kids were getting involved too. I had a little input creating the interest lines for my magazine. This "thing" definitely is a time consumer, but on a very cold, windy and rainy day it was fun. Again, there is so much more "out there" than I ever imagined. It's no wonder kids spend hours upon hours on the computer, but accomplish nothing but the knowledge that I may be learning in this class.

Thing 7

I enjoyed this "Thing". Doing anything with photos is definitely my interest. I actually didn't have any issues doing this "Thing". I will be coming back to Flickr and doing lots of great things with some of my photos. I will be spending some of my summer vacation on Flickr.

As for Flickr in the classroom, I can see it maybe being useful in a high school art classroom. I suppose it could be used with a blog assignment to document a subject over a period of time, such as a science project. There are probably many other useful ways to use it, but I'm thinking personally and selfishly.

Thing 6

Wow, this is soooo cool! I wish I would have known about this a long time ago. But just in time for my daughter's graduation. I can really have fun with some of her senior pictures on flickr. I want to try so many things on there, I just need a few days of just me and my computer time.
I chose this picture of tiny blue blooms because I love taking pictures of flowers in macro. And I need a picture, either taken by myself or now from flickr, for my newly furnished and painted bedroom.
This sight can be really cool for students if they can upload photos, of their own or by searching, onto their own blog for a class assignment. I am amazed more and more at every "thing" that we do and how much could be used in the classroom.

Thing 5

Thing 5 wasn't bad until I got to "Three methods of subscribing" #3. Saving the bloglines button in my favorites under links did not work like the video said it would. I eventually figured it out, but I got pretty frustrated. So the only way that I will know if there are updates on a subscribed blog is I keep checking my bloglines account? I did go on to subscribe to some blogs, so I made it through another thing! Yeah me!

Educationally, I can see how subscribing to blogs would save time so that everything is brought to you instead of continually searching. I haven't quite figured it all out yet, but I can see some benefits if my daughter's teachers started using blogs instead of notebook journals. I'm sure I will continue to think of some other ideas of how blogs will be useful in education.

Thing 4

I can see how bloglines would be very helpful to the teacher: students that blog, parents of a sick student that want the teacher to get updates, or a principal that wants to communicate to staff. But at the same time I can see it being another time zapper while I'm on the computer. I find that it can have pros and cons. I guess I will soon find out how much I like it.

Thing 3

I am really impressed by the way that blogs can be used in the classroom and with colleagues. I can imagine how it would come in handy for the parents in my program to be connected. They could use it to compare experiences with their children with similar diagnoses, recommend doctors, therapy clinics, babysitters and so much more. As teachers to parents, we could post about upcoming events, reminders, class cancellations, etc. There are so many possibilities!