Thing #16-Wikis

Wow! I love those demonstration videos. They make me smile. Wikis is a great idea. I have this feeling it may be coming soon on cell phones for kids to use. =) I thought about two ways to use them.

One is with the Academy of Finance teachers trying to plan their annual trip to NY. Instead emailing back and forth they could use Wikis.

The other way is to coordinate our teams for Business Professionals of America. Teams have projects to work on and supplies they need. It would be so nice to have Wikis to coordinate this.

What a great idea!

Thing #15--The Library

The video on Library2Play for this Thing was very powerful. All through my elementary, middle and high school years, I did not like going to the Library. I enjoyed getting to go check out the books to read, but I was and still am not a big reader. I do think it is very important that our Libraries stay up to date with technology and that students are knowledgeable on how to use the technology and resources. I hope that libraries especially at the highschools have enough funding to stay current with the technology that is needed, but under no circumstance should it take away from having students read a good book.
Now that I am older, I have been reading more and do enjoy it. At the school where I have taught for 28 years, I have seen our library change. More technology has come in, but what I find so very exciting is the fact that when I walk by the library every morning heading to my classroom, there are several students waiting outside the library to go in. That to me is such an amazing thing to see. Instead of students being fearful or not interested in going to the libary, they are actually enjoying it. The libary should be an open, interesting and exciting place to go. It should be current and up to date so students want to use it. Get off the cell phones, face book, etc. and do research on the computer or dive into a good book. I have seen first hand how if you make it available, they will come!

Thing #14

Technorati is great! I love having this option for searching. I first searched for Accounting, since that is what I teach. Lots of interesting blogging. I read one about the collapse of Enron and comparing to today's real estate loans from the government. I thought is was very interesting. I then searched for Scrapbooking. I found lots of people who are sharing their ideas and layouts.

I think so many people use Yahoo or Google, and it made me wonder how many people know about Technorati. I enjoyed playing around with it and think I will enjoy using it to research Accounting news for my classes. I loved looking at the scrapbooking and seeing others that have the same interests that I do.

Thing #13-Del.icio.us

I am still not sure about tagging all together, but can see the importance of it. Students can definitely use this for research purposes. I think I would be able to use this in my upper level Accounting Class so the students can keep track of changes in the business world, specifically to the 4 big Accounting firms. Keeping track of stocks might be too big of a tag to keep track of, buy it might be worth a try. I am still a little vague on this, but will keep trying.

Thing #12

• Commenting on blogs I found interesting. When searching through blogs on Library2play, I was very fascinated by what everyone had done. I also found it very interesting to try to figure out who the blogger was.


• I did a google search on scrapbooking and found some interesting sights. I found some great ideas and have been sharing ideas with others.


• I think it is very important to be very positive and give suggestions as well.


• I enjoyed searching and finding blogs of other people that have the same interest in scrapbooking. I even found one with a contest on the best page layout. Cool!

Thing #11-My Library

I will be the first to tell I am not a big reader at all. But the books I do "get into" must be non Fiction. I love true stories. I like Mystery, Crime and then I always enjoy feel good books. I thought it was truly amazing that I could put a list of books I read in the Library Reader and be connected to other people who had read the same book. The first person I clicked on is in the Phillippians. I was truly amazed. I loved being able to see what other books were out there that people had read that had similar taste in books.

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