Thing #19 Microblogging

Twitter, I made myself an account. I twitted to it several times. I went and looked at FanWiki and saw a whole lot of toys for twitter. But when I read so many of the posts it is just too much immaterial stuff I don't want or have time to read about." Quick-ping media can be a massive time-suck," a direct quote of Clive Thompson from Wired, but he thinks it has its purpose.


I use a twitter account here at work for a specific purpose. I like it because it's a fast way to add a update to a page. I really don't think I want to use it any other way.

Thing #20 Social Networking

Social Networking is what I have spent a great deal of my time trying to get the students off of. To use it as a instructional tool is a whole new twist. I have not been able to open any of the public libraries myspace's to see what they are doing. I have however opened my own Orkut account and may try using it. I would feel more comfortable if I made it a fictional account, perhaps of a dead author. Now that would be fun with a class, other dead authors and poets writing in. https://img1.orkut.com/img/doodle/orkut_logo.gif

Thing # 18 The Homework

Jott

http://jott.com/myjotts.aspx

This is sure 2.0. Multi media. It takes your cell phone, or land line, and allows you to transcribe a message into your email. I am working with it to see if I can get it into my blog or igoogle.

Two Big Two

I went seeking and I found
Mr. Lawrence Lessig. He is

pretty darn impressive.

Thing #18 Youtube, Teachertube, and User Generated Video

Streaming video is something I don't see much of. Having it blocked by the district and being in a Citrix environment it is few and far between video clips. I have been able to get into teachertube a bit. I like how it has a browse so I can snoop around. I have not seen a lot that I can use, or think of using with students. I just hate how you would get it all set up, than it does not work properly. That is why right now I would not even be game to play with it and kids.

Thing # 17 Explore Web 2.0 Award Winning Apps

http://www.seomoz.org/ I think this site is awesome. There are so many thing to explore. I was delighted to see many that I had used, or our library has used. It is looking a little familiar here and there. This one site I liked was onesentince.org. I already had a English teacher sit and look at it with me today. I think it is great for story jumpers, and so did she. I hope to explore this site a great deal more.

Thing #16 Learning a Language

This was something I had not thought of before. The one site I was looking at had it broken down into levels. And it claimed to be free. Somehow the idea of retirement seems more interesting when I think I may have time to finally take advantage of all this free stuff to learn and take advantage of. For here at school I have no idea if the style of learning the sites use would work for our classroooms, but for personal interest what have you got to loose. Especially the open blog ones. That would be cool to be chatting away with someone on a beach somewhere far away in a different language.