Thing #8: RSS feeds

I used bloglines to set up an RSS feed to keep track of some of the various things that I want to attempt to keep up with. I have also (inadvertently) set up a set of feeds @ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68929 I found a couple of feeds for personal use, as well as several for more professional development, including those of people I work with. I'm looking forward to learning & seeing new things on here!

I think that some of the feeds that I've subscribed to will offer ideas and advice on how to take advantage of utilizing some of the new technology and web 2.0 things that are available. I hope to be able to use some of these with students and teachers.

One of the feeds that I subscribed to was church related. My husband wanted to know if I had signed him up as well. I told him that I would show him how to do it, but that he needed to learn to do it himself. But, he was very interested in knowing that these were available.


Librarians can use RSS feeds to help keep themselves current in their field and possibly be in a better position to "know a little about everything" - something that I think is important for information professionals.

On to more adventures in 23 things!

Happy summer (thankfully - still!)

Sherri

Thing #7 - Google Apps

've worked some on the Google Calendar. (Trying to keep track of my incredibly busy summer!) Here is the link to my : Google Calendar

This is pretty cool!!!

I have done some exploring also on Google Earth, and it is pretty darn cool also! I tried looking at the Illinois River near Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the resolution on the image is not great, so, I can't really show other people what it looks like. I also went to see another of my favorite vacation spots: Red River, New Mexico. The images from there were better, but it still wan't the same as being there!

Gotta go get ready to float down the Illinois River and go to Tahlequah, Ok.

Happy Summer!

Sherri

Thing #6 - Making Mashups

The Trading card maker is something that could be very useful in the classroom. Fun for kids (& adults) to do.... It's a way that they could do a report on a scientist, state, animal, dinosaur, etc. and yet incorporate technology easily. One other idea that I had was to do invention cards, and then match the inventor to the invention in sets of cards.

Some of the other things at Big Huge Lab's website that I thought looked interesting were the CD label maker, the Magazine cover, Movie Poster, and the Warholizer, (great for art!).

I thought that The Cube could be an interesting tool if someone were reviewing a concept, and wanted to create a picture cube that could be used to stimulate discussion.

I spent some time trying to make a trading card. I didn't realize that I needed to use a .jpg or similar photo format when I tried to load a picture from a URL. It didn't work and I've ran out of time that I've allotted myself to work on this. Oh well.... It was fun and I've learned a little more about this than I knew!

Happy Summer!
Sherri

Thing # 5 - Fun with Flickr

One of my first experiences with Flicker was when one of the father's of another player on my son's soccer team took pictures of all of the kids playing soccer. He wanted to share them with people easily, so, he loaded them to Flickr, then sent us the link to it. That sure did make it easy to be able to share the pictures of our kids and let the grandparents and other relatives "oooh and aaah" over how much fun our children had playing their favorite sport.

I explored the geo-tagging and was intrigued with the idea that my students could take pictures of what their life is like, and then compare it to other areas of the world. I think that this will have some great possibilities.

I am also inspired to show this to my art teacher and let her post our student's art on here, but also she could help students discover art as well.

This is one website that I will continue to use!!

Happy summer!

Sherri