THING 15

"Cloud" Tools

This is a phenomenal idea especially for those documents that have to be revised by several people. It would be great to be able to access the same document from several paces to modify and know that the changes are being done on the same documents. I have had my problems with saving a document multiple times with numerous changes. I usually use e-mail between home and school. I definitely can see myself using this application.

THING 14

Social Networking

Well, I must confess I did join Facebook. I don't have anything on it other than a pic of me and my daughters. It is a great way to share information, keep in touch with friends, meet new people and find old friends!

THING 13

Delicious

As I mentioned in THING 12, I think I could find social bookmarking useful. I'm not ready to extend the process to Diigo, but could find Delicious ueful personally and for classroom materials.

Now off to work on my bookmarking and to de-stress!

THING 12
Tagging and Social Bookmarking

Another great idea! I have always saved sites to favorites, tagged by category. But, since they are only on one specific computer, I'm lost if I'm using another computer. The Social Bookmarking and Tagging that I'll start to use for convenience and to expand my ability to visit other sites.

THING 11
WIDGETS

Ok, I'm getting the hand of it. I finally got my talking VOKI embedded in this blog. This was one of my favorite sections. It adds a little personal touch to blogging!

THING 10

Twitter

Twitter is a good social network, but not for me. There is too much going on in the sites; too many choices; too many THINGS! I did open an account and posted my one and only tweet. I started to look through the THE BEST of 2008, but became overwhelmed with the number of sites and some of the sites themselves. (Maybe because I still have correcting to do for tomorrow!) As I said earlier my blog, social networking sites have a place, just not for me.

THING 9

Copyright and Creative Commons

Being in education I have always been familiar with copyright laws regarding copies used in the classroom. Today, however, there are so many easy ways to copy someone's work that it is even more important to be current on use rules. This topic would make a great workshop for classroom applications.

THINGS 7 AND 8
YOUTUBE

I would periodlically view YOUTUBE for commercials or previously aired spots on TV. My favorite commercials are the ETrade Babies. That is the YOUTUBE video I have been trying to embed in this blog. But after considerable amounts of frustraton, I've decided to come back to this THING at a later date.

I find these activities to be very interesting, but at times difficult without one-on-one explanations.

THING 5 FLICKER

I looked at the FLICKER site but never really considered saving pictures on the Internet. However, it does have its considerations. I would always know where the pics are especially if I organize them into categories. I'm still a little concerned about security. Hey, someone may see a picture and decide to stalk me or my family. LOL

THING 6 FLICKER FUN

Well, I started to save some pictures to FLICKER by groups. I was excited about saving the pictures in an organized manner. I loaded pictures that were already saved to my computer. It was actually pretty easy. My biggest issue is all the pictures I have of my kids when they were younger that are not on a disk to save to the site. Does anyone have the KODAK PHOTO SCANNER that lets you continuously scanner pictures quickly?

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