Ramblings et al

YouTube is one of the most, um, interesting places around the web.  There is truly some weird stuff out there.  Really makes you wonder about people, especially if you leave the filter off.  Just for fun I typed in the word weird and chose “weird animals”, well, I got some weird animals alright.  Then I [...]

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Well, creating a podcast on Evoca couldn’t be easier. You just sit down and talk (don’t have any trouble there!) The only problem I had with the whole process was my own annoying voice. So, without further ado here’s my podcast titled Three Ideas for Podcasts.

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I’m a fan already of podcasts. I am actually listening to “Car Talk” (silly and frivolous) as I work on this. I love the NPR podcast and started checking out the Grammar Girl stuff. I liked the Go Green Girl and The Migthy Mommy podcasts. I really think that I could [...]

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I read a very interesting article from the NYTimes Online, “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” by Motoko Rich which is the first article in a series that looks at “how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read.” It argues both sides of the issue: [...]

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Um, LibraryThing, good!  I like.  I spent an hour just adding books for fun, a true English teacher and book lover.  I actually created a hyperlink thingy and spreadsheet back in the early 1990’s where I catalogued all of my classroom titles.  I went so far as to type in the names, authors, ISBN, publishers, [...]

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Del.icio.us is definitely an interesting tool. It is going to take to some time for me to “love it” like so many people seem too. I’m not much of a web surfer, I prefer the real thing. I’m sure playing around some more will help as with everything I do. (Change [...]

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I have been fairly good about checking my Google Reader and very much enjoy reading the posts of my fellow educators at The Lovett School.  They are truly a creative, inspiring bunch.  I was browsing the other day though Stephanie Bullock’s blog  about Spelling City.  Obviously, it interested me and I checked it out.  Then I signed [...]

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There is definitely a bunch of cool stuff out there.  I went to several sites to play around and came up with several ideas for updating projects that I currently have my students work on.  The first site I chose, Picnik, was an accident but it had some interesting features and was fairly easy to [...]

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The online conference is an accessible way to learn new information or confirm what you already know. I watched two conferences, one ( “Creating a Paradigm Shift in Technology”) about how the Trussville, AL system handles technology and what they have found effective. It was very interesting and shed some light on what my technology [...]

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This was very cool! I already have a bunch of great ideas for using several of the slideshow generators in class. Of course, playing with Flickr was still a pain. I don’t know why. I guess it’s the whole copyright thing. It seems like every great picture I come across is “all rights reserved”, so [...]

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