Thing #14

I explored several of the sites listed such as the calendar, jigsaw, and a picture editing site.  The one I really like was the mixbook site.  Since my daughter recently got married the idea of being able to put the pictures into a book digitally was much more appealing than trying to scrapbook all 1,000 photos!!  Most of the sites I visited had sharing capabilities.  Obviously, this would be a personal use.  One site that I think could be used in the education arena is the letterpop.  This site had templates in which you could just drop your picture in and write your text.  It appeared it would be minimal time commitment to create a newsletter for your group, club, or classroom.

Thing #16

Boy, what I wouldn't have given to have had a site like this when I was in school!!  I can see using this site personally when I am looking for suggestions. If I was in the classroom I think the challenge would be a fun project for the students.  Also as Pre-K teacher I bought my own books and this would have been a wonderful way of keeping up with what I already had purchased. I like the Name that Book category, too.  I am reaching a stage where I am forgetting quite a bit so a little help is great when I am trying to remember a title.

Thing #13

                                       

Thing # 20

I am a little familiar with the Google docs.  We use the spreadsheet option to list our students' scholarships, keep up with SAT fee waivers, and list the scholarships available.  We moved to this last year after keeping up with it at our individual desks.  It was very inconvenient to continually go into each other's offices and ask for the databases. We also used this on a personal note when we were creating a family cookbook and trying to decide what we were going to include in the cookbook.  We have family in Austin so it was a great way to communicate and every stay on the same page.

Thing # 7a

So I read Derek's Blog today in my reader.  It appears he attended an Internet Summit in New York City this past June.  I read through one of the power point presentation by Mary Meeker, who is with the investment bank of Morgan Stanley.  Her presentation concerned mobile devices and their impact on the internet in the future.  Her presentation compiled a lot of data but one slide in particular caught my eye.  It showed the various devices: Nintendo Wii, Ipad, Iphone, and Ipod and others and the amount of days it took to sell 1 million units.  Interesting that that it took the Ipod  360 days, Iphone took 74 , Wii took -13, and Ipad took 28!    I think the Ipod was the groundbreaker with all capabilities and by the time the others came around we were all on the bandwagon.  If I remember correctly, I believe the Nintendo Wii came out around Christmas which may account for the high volume of sales. Anyway, I though those stats were very interesting.

Thing #12

Thing #11

Exploring Flickr was  fun.  I have to admit I am still a bit skitish when downloading.  Sometimes after repeating an activity (because I did it wrong) I realize I am making some of this harder than it is.  So many of the sites have the links or tabs to help the process along.  For instance, I saved the images but then noticed that little magnifying glass in the corner that said "all sizes".  When I clicked on it I realized that was the way I was supposed to be downloading! Aha moments are coming pretty frequent lately.  I chose my theme of Jaguars, our mascot.  I thought we could use them in student presentations, particularly seniors, since I chose a cub (freshman) and then adult jaguars ( seniors).  Here is one of my chosen images:

Isn't he gorgeous?


                                                              







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