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Entries from July 2009

Thing 15 : Social Bookmarking with Delicious

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

This exercise practiced using Delicious a social bookmarking tool.
First bookmarks
Great for creating materials & gathering info for group projects…

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Thing 7b – Google Reader

July 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I found this very interesting article on Google Reader RSS feed of Larry Ferlazzo’s edublog.  He has a created a list of most useful sites (check it out):
The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education

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Thing 14 (Week 6): Explore a Tool of Your Choice

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I chose to explore the following AMAZING sites (so glad I did…)
BeFunky -
“Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click.”
SimplyBox -
Clip and share portions of web pages in an easy-to-use visual format. Great for collecting, organizing and sharing resources on specific topics.
I could spend hours exploring these tools (ooops, I already did with just [...]

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Thing 13 – Attend a Conference in your PJs

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

This is what I viewed:
Kicking it up a Notch
Parental Engagement in the 21st Century – Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways
By Dean Shareski ⋅ October 31, 2008 (notes) -
Main Idea: social networking platforms for parents to be involved (ex: Parents As Partners group on facebook)
Children are Growing up online
Digital Citizenship – [...]

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Thing 12 – Embed a Slideshow

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I have to admit — this was a fun exercise.  probably had too much fun:
check out the video of ‘The Big Mouth Frog’ on my Wiki
thanks!

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Thing 11 – Photosharing With Flickr

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Saw lots of neat things I was unaware with Flickr – so easy to use!
Theme was: Calculus OR Chemistry OR Physics (cool right?)
photo was from username: kharied
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Thing 10 : Get Creative with Creative Commons (licensing)

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s funny, one of the graphics I used in my week 9 wiki assignment was ‘lifted’ from a friend of mine’s t-shirt company’s web site.  I emailed him to make sure I could use it.  Weird.
I’ve never seen or used cc myself, so it is difficult to say what it’s impact has been or will [...]

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Thing 9 – My Wiki Page

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m behind but catching up quickly.  Enjoyed creating my first Wiki page:
Well this was fun!

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Thing 8 – Wiki spaces

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Wow.  Having seen a few examples of the power of wikis, this is really starting to make sense.  It was so easy to see the value that this tool brings from planning a camping trip, to organizing and editing collaborative creative writing pieces, to daily classroom application (lesson plans, assignments, grades, etc..).  I can think [...]

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