Thing 13

This step sure can eat into your time. I kept clicking on each of the word webs to find the connections. It was a little overwhelming to start with, but I think I got the hang of it.

How could I use it in my class? I think I could use it as a research aid for doing research work. Tags could be used to help find information again for those times when the clock runs out of time for a project one day. I think I could also do some work before actual research to get sites set up for the kids to use to save time if need be.

Thing 12

On Thursday and Friday I went on the different blogs and read many from several searches that I found with the link on the Libray2Play sight. I had so much enjoyment in reading the blogs that I totally forgot to respond. I will come back later with responses and thoughts, but I am going to go on because I may face an internet outage for a while because of possible work being done in the room where the computer/modem is set up.

I do not always feel that I have something useful or interesting to add to the comment sections on this blogs, so I do not respond. I save ideas and thoughts for future use with the class, but I do not write...my problem in many areas of my life. I live with someone who is a great writer, so I feel very inferior in that realm...got to work on that!!!!

Now on the Thing 13 to see what is ahead of me on the journey.

Thing 11

I wish I had seen Library Thing last summer!!! I spend all summer making a spreadsheet of all of my "teaching" books. I set them up by subjects and how I would use them. This sight might have been easier and I won't have to always have my flashdrive with me!

For my third graders, it would be a little complicated and time consuming to have it available to them, but it could be a good resourse for finding other books to read and study. I am afraid I would spend my time reading all of the information, and never get around to reading the book or going to sleep!

Thing 10 update

I did find my work I did on this step after I was reminded by my daughter that I had emailed the samples to her to let her know what I was doing. The poster is one of the items that I found. The picture was taken by my son in Galveston


The trading card elements from this Thing could be used for the class to show what they learned from different units...landform trading cards, highlights of important people, book characters, etc.

Thing 10

I have spent two days on this item and am a little frustrated. I could not get my pictures to upload to most of the sites. I made a few and thought they saved to my hard drive, but now I cannot find them. :(

If I were to get these going I could use the Happy Face letter generator as possible labels for the bulletin boards and could use the posters as motivators in the class.

I did not have success on the comic book sections at all, I may come back to this with fresh eyes later in the summer.:( :(

Thing 9

I found the Goggle Blog and the edublog finder to be the most useful to me. The most confusing was probably the Tecnorati site. I am still trying to figure out how I would use this in class of 3rd graders.

I spent a lot of time reading posts and clicking so that I almost forgot where I was, a common problem with me with I work on the net.

Thing 8

I spent the afternoon investigating this step in the "play" and I am not sure how I would use it in my 3rd grade class. I haven't used the internet with the blogging part until I started this class, so the use if still unfamiliar to me.

I did finally figure out how to add a blog that wasn't one of the suggested blogs, so I feel like I did accomplish something today.