Ramblings et al

My overall experience has been phenomenal. I have become a complete convert to Web 2.0, a long way from the skeptic I was at the beginning. I can see the value in almost everything we worked on and have envisioned so many ways to use the tools with which I am now familiar. [...]

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I really feel like I have an amazing amount to learn. I checked out all of the stuff on Classroom 2.0 and found that I kept getting lost in the depths of information. Unbelievable how much there is to learn and how easy it is to access. I signed up for both [...]

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Very interesting concept and a super organizational tool. I love the idea of a “theme” page similar to what Will Richardson did. I think it would be an excellent place to put links and such for novel units, grammar units, etc. I also thought it might be a good place for [...]

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Google Docs is a great place to work. I like it best for two reasons 1) the ability to share and 2) I don’t need MY laptop, a flash drive, etc. to work on documents. I can go home pull up Google Docs and get to work from my home laptop and [...]

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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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