Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Cru


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Thing #10




Wow! I liked this "Thing" that we did. Generating your own image was great. I went to smiley face sign generator to create this sign. http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/ This is what I like best "play". It was fun. The second image is a picture of our '56 Thunderbird. I used the program http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/jigsaw.php. Ok! This is too much fun! So far this is my favorite thing we have done. I love things that will capture the student's attention. I think it is great to be able use this in the classroom and show the students how to use them.

Thing #9


I find all of them fairly easy to get around on. I got the image to your right from Bloglines. Google Search Blog was easy also. I have always been a "Yahoo Searcher", but I am starting to like Google searches. Topix was ok not really a like or dislike for it. Technorati was good, but lots of information thrown at you. When I searched for Scrapbooking, however, it took me to video clips from UTube about scrapbooking. That was neat. I have found students are big on searching google for things, I'm not sure they would use Technorati, unless they were directed specifically to go there and it is a little overwhelming at first--lots of infomation to read through.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Thing #8--RSS

1. I found sites and put them on my google account. It is really great to have access to the news you want. I did the "fun" and "sports" catagories. I found it extremely fascinating to be able to link to so many sources, but then narrow it down to just the ones you want.
2. I think I could use this in my classroom, because I teach Business classes and we could keep up to date on current businesses, stocks, mergers, etc.
3. Libraries could use this alot when students are assigned a specific topic to research and the library could help narrow the information for the students to exactly what they want and need.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Thing #7--2 of 2--Google Alerts

I found the google alerts interesting and we will see if it works. I asked to be notified of scrapbooking parties. It will be neat to see what is out there. After I google it though, I am nervous now that I might have gotten into something I don't want a huge amount of emails over. We will see and deal with it then. I probably should have tried another google search. Oh well.

Thing #7--1 of 2--Googling Good!

Google Scholar--I liked the google calendar, but already have my organizer pretty organized. I may try it again. I played with the google scholar and found three books of interest for scrapbooking.

Thing # 6-Heaven

Wow! Wow! Wow! I just got through making a trading card and it worked. I am actually enjoying this! I hope it continues to go this well. I got a picture of Switzerland and added icons and text. It brought back wonderful memories.

Thing #5--Flickr


I went to Flickr and found of picture of Paris. That is really neat that you can share other pictures. I enjoyed looking through them to find one I really liked.

Thing #4

My blog is up and working and I have an aviator and I have even imported a picture. As usual I have the "play" thing down. It is kind of growing on me.

Thing #3

Well!! I created my blog! It is pretty cool. I picked the maroon background because I am an Aggie! I am officially a player!

Thing #2

I made it through the first two steps! Yea! Out of the 7 1/2 steps, I think the easiest is Play, and the hardest for me is view problems as challenges. I usually get frustrated and throw in the towel. Not this time though! =)

Thing #1

What have I gotten myself into? It looks tricky but fun! I'll hang in there.

Module #1

I took a trip with my daughter to Europe and would like to scrapbook the entire two and a half weeks. Only problem--1500 pictures.