Thing 15

I found the Library Thing to be an interesting concept. I like the book recommendations. I searched for a book on a topic that I am quite familiar with to see what other books were suggesting along with it. I found that the recommendations were all books that I have read, but they were good selections. Perhaps I would use this if I were venturing out to a new genre.
This would be a good jumping off point for students to utilize when writing a report.

Thing 12

I visited BeFunky.com and Quizlet. I thought that they were both very interesting. I really liked befunky. I had fun taking a picture of my son and playing with it. I do not really see how I could use it in my teaching outside of making the material more "snappy". However, I will use it personally to make cards and funky paper for gifts, etc.

Quizlet was actually a bit of a disappointment. I thought that it would be great to use for helping my students prepare for their exams. I suppose that it could still be used for such, but it was not that interesting. It seems like a lot of work just to make glorified flashcards. If flashcards are all that we are making, then my students can do that on thier own. I did consider using it for actually assigning quizzes to students. It would be a whole lot easier to simply have my students take a quiz online and have the results sent to me. The only problem with that is there are not enough computers available at any given time to make this a viable option.

Thing #5b

I chose to follow one of my New York Times articles on my reader. I have heard lots of discussion on theradio about the pirate ships off the coast of Somalia. So I chose to follow that feed.

The article was interesting. I talked about how the pirates are stepping up thier attacks on American and European ships in that region. I am curious to see how it develops and what kind of effect it has on our economy and international trade.

Oops

I forgot to include the citations for the pictures on the slide show. Here they are now.

Photo # 1 Uploaded on March 4, 2008 by Seetwist

Photo # 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianglanz/2555770034/ This photo was originally titled "Thieves Lair, 2004" Uploaded on June 6, 2008 by brian glanz

Photo # 3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/withayou/3006459630 Uploaded on November 5, 2008by withayou

Photo # 4 Inaguration photo Uploaded on January 20, 2009
by jurvetson

Thing 12

At first this task seemed quite daunting. However, the program itself was quite easy to use. It didn't take nearly as long as I initially thought that it would. Once again, the hardest part was using flickr. I actually would use this in my teaching. The slide.com program would be good to utilize when I update my powerpoint lectures. I think I may try to use this again for my personal use, just to get more practice with it.

Thing 10

http://www.flickr.com/photos/withayou/3006459630

Uploaded on November 5, 2008by withayou


http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianglanz/2555770034/ This photo was originally titled "Thieves Lair, 2004" Uploaded on June 6, 2008 by brian glanz



I am torn about flicker. I really like that there are so many photos to choose from. However, I found it difficult to find pictures that matched my theme of "presidential election". I found that I had to spend over an hour just to find pictures that were relevant. If I typed in presidential election, then I got pages of elections from all over the world. When I narrowed the search I found that if I changed the tag even slightly a whole new set of pictures would come up. In addition, when I tried to copy the pictures to my blog I found that the directions we were given were not always presented in that format on the website. This made the task even more difficult. I wish that flicker had a more uniformed layout. It was not user friendly.

I am not saying that I will never use it, but I found that simply googling images is much easier and yields better results.