Explorations during Thing #9

As I am exploring the different blogs for Thing #9, I came across a post from The Fischbowl that won an Edublog Award. I have read it and want to ponder it more, and share it with my faculty. Hopefully, it will prompt some of our teachers to action. http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-it-okay-to-be-technologically.html


I was also intrigued by the Spanish techie group, Tinglado. I will be sure to share that with many of the Spanish language speakers @ my school! (Some of whom are more timid with technology than others.) http://tinglado.net/

Fun project to share with 5th grade (or higher) LA teacher: ( http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2007/proverbs/proverbs.htm


Something to explore more later: Flat Classroom project: http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/profile/coolcatteacher


I read some of the posts on Mike Falik's blog. I enjoyed a video linked from the TED Project: Daniel Goleman's TED Speech: Why Aren’t We All Good Samaritans

I am intrigued by the TED Project videos and want to look at them further.

I glanced at a blog by Wesley Freyer called Moving At the Speed of Creativity. I had been searching for Spring Branch ISD on Google blog search. I' ve added his blog to my list.

A quote by Luke Fox was in Freyer's blog. Read it and glanced at some of the apps for "facilitating PBL" Project based learning. TASK JUGGLER seemed to be fairly user friendly. I noticed that Freyer's blog is listed in Technorati. Looking forward to reading more of his stuff.

I looked at Topix http://www.topix.net/ and it seemed to be more newsy and focused on entertainment than professional topics.

As I looked at Syndica8, http://www.syndic8.com/some of the blogs linked to a search for Librarians pulled up blogs that were old, and hadn't been updated. Didn't see much that caught my eye. It was pretty confusing.

I read several blogs relating to Librarians in Technorati http://www.technorati.com/, but haven't found additional ones to subscribe to. I liked the look of the website, found it user friendly and would go back to it.

Upon reflection, it seems that some of the best feeds I've found were located by looking at what other people are reading. I suppose time will tell if this is true since I don't have the luxury of waiting for several months / days to see if the feeds that I'm choosing to look at (based on past performance) will be helpful. Should prove interesting...

On to more summer adventures with family, friends and travels.

Sherri