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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Thing 15 - delicious!

I've been using delicious for awhile now to bookmark stuff. When I go to bookmark on Firefox, delicious often asks me of I want to bookmark it with delicious too (I haven't figured out why it only asks me sometimes - anyone know?). I think delicious will be very cool when I need to find a website using a tag, but so far I haven't needed to search by a tag to find a bookmark. In fact, I am still pretty much relying on my Firefox bookmarks. I think if folks at work use delicious too, then it would be a very cool way to share websites with people. The problem is that I don't think my colleagues have time to notice what I bookmark and read it. I think there are folks out there who do that sort of thing - take time to look at cool stuff on the web, but I only do so when someone posts links on Facebook or emails me the link directly (and even then, sometimes I don't get to it).

I think that delicious would have been VERY cool when I was teaching math. I would have loved to been able to easily share webistes with my math colleagues and see theirs. Again, they would have to be committed to bookmark with delicious (just as I would).

My delicious bookmarks

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Thing 14: BeFunky

I checked out BeFunky. It's a website that adds effects to photos - either your own uploaded from your computer, or from the web. It seems very similar to the Mac photo booth. I think it could be a cool way for kids to add effects to their photos, or even pictures of their artwork. Perhaps an art class could find more uses for it. It was sort of fun, but not spectacular.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Thing 7b: Google Reader

Reading my Reader:

Sunday Morning: CBS News had an article about making mistakes Make No Mistake: To Err IS Human.The CBS articles are fairly short and therefore a good bang for my time.

This American Life is a great podcast, and I liked the Bad Bank podcast so much that I posted it to my Facebook page. Some of my friends commented on it.

The 60 Minutes videos: I like that I don't have to watch TV when things are broadcasted - I can watch them when I want. Check out the 60 Minutes interview of Obama from 3.22.09

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Thing 13: cont.

I just listened to Asking Bigger Questions about Assessment by Gardner Campbell. He talked about ways to assess learning and understanding. It was a good overview, and he got specific and showed an assessment tool he uses in his classroom. I would like to see even more specifics - I think we talk about assessment a lot, but we don't often share assessments. I feel fortunate to work in an independent school where we do not have any test to teach to and we can teach and assess in any way we think is best for our students.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Thing 13: The K-12 Online Conference

I attended Telling the New Story: Leverage Points for Inspiring Change Orientation by David Warlick. He talked about the need for a new, different kind of classroom to prepare students for a future that will have new demands different from those we've seen in the past. David mentioned Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind. Both David and Daniel talk about a future where we'll need creative thinkers. I didn't really learn anything new, and I thought that David could have made his presentation tighter. He said he made the video at the last minute and it felt that way - unpolished and a bit too off the cuff. I do love the idea of "anytime delivery option for professional development", and I wonder if my school could prodcue videos like this where teachers create online, anytime professional development for others.

I will go look at other presentations to see if I can find one that really speaks to me (both in the content and in the presentation).

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