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Thing 11 – Using Flickr
Flickr is a much more powerful tool than I realized. I was really intrigued by the idea of adding notes, annotations, and hyperlinks to photos. That is something I need to explore more. As students are...
View ArticleThing 12 – Creating a Slideshow
We recently returned from a wonderful vacation in Alaska so I decided to use some photos from that trip to create the slideshow. Since we were to download pictures from Flickr, I first created a Flickr...
View ArticleThing 15 – Diigo
I really enjoyed Learning about Diigo. One of my frustrations with my RSS feed has always been that there wasn’t a great way to group content by subject area. Diigo really makes that easy…now I just...
View ArticleThing 16 – Curation Tools
As I explored the Curation Tools listed on the Wiki, I was struck by how broad many of the boards and binders people were creating. In Learnist, for example, it seemed to me that many were collecting...
View ArticleThing 13
I actually watched two sessions…I guess I felt the need to overachieve a bit since I’m so late completing the Week 6 Things! The first video I watched was Digital Tools for Differentiating Vocabulary...
View ArticleThing 14 – Part I
While I like the idea of Classroom 2.0, I was disappointed by the volume of participation there in areas in which I was interested. However, I have become a member of English Companion, and am enjoying...
View ArticleThing 14 – Part II
This week I’ve been following Wrightlaw as they blog from the Institute of Special Education Advocacy 2013. One interesting item that was discussed yesterday was the interpretation and implementation...
View ArticleThing 17 – Podcasts
I’ve never listened to podcasts before, and wasn’t very impressed with Grammar Girl. I found her commercials annoying and while the information she offered was good, I don’t think that it would be...
View ArticleThing 18 – Screencasting
I had fun with the screencasting and found the application pretty easy to use. I can see using it with my students for concepts for which they may need more instructional time. For example, some of my...
View ArticleThing 19 – YouTube
I use YouTube in my classroom and am considering assigning videos as homework in the upcoming school year. It might be very helpful for my students to have some exposure to new concepts before I teach...
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