Discovering Delicious.
This site seems great. Search the web, find an educational site, tag it, share it, and everyone who knows about it will benefit. This is a great tool for organizing your personal and professional web sites of interest. Used effectively it could be a useful tool in the classroom or someone elses classroom. For instance, if you are a history teacher and have hunted down a few interesting web sites on the Civil War, you can tag them and make them available to other users of Delicious. I'm still skeptical. If you found the web site you were looking for, then why wouldn't another teacher find that same site if they were really committed? For now my use of this tool, if any, will remain for personal organization of useful or interesting web sites. But who knows, that may translate into something that I could use in the classroom.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Thing #20
NASA Commander Tweets To Take Questions In Space
Like to 'Tweet'? Click the link above to ask a question that will be answered from SPACE from the NASA Commander who will be on board.
Education Today and Tomorrow
This video gives us a unique perspective on how education and how the world has evolved over the years.
Like all other web 2.0 tools that we have toyed with this short summer term, YouTube is a place where you can find anything your little heart desires. That can be a good thing, but it can also be counter productive. With all the pollution on the Internet, it is up to us, the educators, to use this tool in a way that it will be most beneficial to our students.
Like to 'Tweet'? Click the link above to ask a question that will be answered from SPACE from the NASA Commander who will be on board.
Education Today and Tomorrow
This video gives us a unique perspective on how education and how the world has evolved over the years.
Like all other web 2.0 tools that we have toyed with this short summer term, YouTube is a place where you can find anything your little heart desires. That can be a good thing, but it can also be counter productive. With all the pollution on the Internet, it is up to us, the educators, to use this tool in a way that it will be most beneficial to our students.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Thing #21
Video for 23 things:
What I have created is an unorganized video of random pictures that looks fairly professional in a video format. I am pleased with the ease that this web site offered. It did however take a great deal of time to figure out how to embed it into my blog (I may still have it wrong). It could be a handy tool for the introduction to a webquest.
What I have created is an unorganized video of random pictures that looks fairly professional in a video format. I am pleased with the ease that this web site offered. It did however take a great deal of time to figure out how to embed it into my blog (I may still have it wrong). It could be a handy tool for the introduction to a webquest.
Thing #18
Well, Mr. Mark Zucer***(can't spell last name), has created one of my frequent stops on the Internet. You as the individual will go to this web site, create an account, find long lost friends, and possibly buy something from the advertising page posted to the right. You've done all this work, but who get the money? Mr. Z, that's who.
I have definitely fallen into the category of facebook junky once upon a time in my life. I have recently rehabilitated and have got my problem under control. Social networking makes is so easy to stay in touch with people that you would otherwise be unable to due to geographical locations. I'm not too big on the educational aspects of this particular site, because there are too many distractions. I not saying that I'm not a fan, just not an advocate for use in an educational setting.
I have definitely fallen into the category of facebook junky once upon a time in my life. I have recently rehabilitated and have got my problem under control. Social networking makes is so easy to stay in touch with people that you would otherwise be unable to due to geographical locations. I'm not too big on the educational aspects of this particular site, because there are too many distractions. I not saying that I'm not a fan, just not an advocate for use in an educational setting.
Thing #16
1) Which start page did you choose? Why did that one appeal to you? Will you make it your permanent home page?
I chose iGoggle, because it seems to be the most user friendly. Being that I only have dial-up Internet and have to use public Internet access to actually get anything accomplished, no, I will not make this my permanent home page.
2) How can the online calendars be useful to you?
Online calendars can be useful on a few different levels. As a teacher, the education system you could be teaching in may not have access to a tool like d2L. Using a online calendar could help you and your class keep up to date on upcoming assignments and events (and it' free). Personally, a online calendar is useful, because you can make you schedule available to others who on linked up to the web. That way, if there is any question as to where you are or what your doing, people can go to your online calendar and find you. Also, if you use a PDA or blackberry you can update your calendar on the go.
3) What about the to-do lists—helpful, too much work...?
Having a online to-do list is, for me, simply unnessary and time consuming. I have recently began using a palm device and has really become a helpful tool. However, if someone does not have access to such a device then a online to-do list could be helpful. Ultimatly, I believe it depends on the individual. If you are a job that allows you to personally access the web, then you could effectively keep up your to-do list online.
I chose iGoggle, because it seems to be the most user friendly. Being that I only have dial-up Internet and have to use public Internet access to actually get anything accomplished, no, I will not make this my permanent home page.
2) How can the online calendars be useful to you?
Online calendars can be useful on a few different levels. As a teacher, the education system you could be teaching in may not have access to a tool like d2L. Using a online calendar could help you and your class keep up to date on upcoming assignments and events (and it' free). Personally, a online calendar is useful, because you can make you schedule available to others who on linked up to the web. That way, if there is any question as to where you are or what your doing, people can go to your online calendar and find you. Also, if you use a PDA or blackberry you can update your calendar on the go.
3) What about the to-do lists—helpful, too much work...?
Having a online to-do list is, for me, simply unnessary and time consuming. I have recently began using a palm device and has really become a helpful tool. However, if someone does not have access to such a device then a online to-do list could be helpful. Ultimatly, I believe it depends on the individual. If you are a job that allows you to personally access the web, then you could effectively keep up your to-do list online.
Thing #15
Exploring the wiki tool gave me a different perspective. I used wikipedia numerous times but purely for insight to information I had no previous knowledge. To be able to elaborate about an existing topic is quite revolutionary, and I believe that is the downside of wiki. Individuals that are considered educational scholars do not give credit to the sources of information posted on wiki. It is great starting point to find information that you would like to research.
Thing #14
I fooled around with this "thing" for a good bit of time. I had a hard time getting registered for a few of them. I finally got going with the gliffy online and created a document. For what I can tell, this web tool would have been handy for creating the classroom drawing that we did for 3040. I linked up the document I created in the word document above. The mind map tool I used was bubbl.us and created this document: ------------------------>
I had a good time working on this web site and easily found that it does have positive educational implications if used as a study tool.
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