Thing 14

Library Thing
Interesting way to keep track the books you are reading or have read or recommend. I like that I can add it to my blog and share with others what I am reading. Another way to keep in touch with others in the field. I am not sure if I would use it much with my elementary students but I think my highschool students would enjoy it.

Thing 13

Productivity Tools

I chose iGoogle since so many of the features so far have had Google as the owner of the product. Now I can surf between many sites and my RSS and Gmail. I see this as a useful tool but would spend to much time rearrange things for a bit. It is very easy to use. I like the feature of moving the gadgets around and minimizing

I was not able to get the calendars from the website article to work so I used the the Google calendar. Extremely easy to add events and delete. I just would have to get into the routine of check it. I think I am a bit old school with a paper calendar still.

I am not sure if I would the list sites in my library. I like to write lists but not sure I would log on to create one. I think the biggest reason is that I am not always close to a computer. If I was mostly at my desk during the day I might use it.

I looked at backpack and I think I may try it some time. My brain has had all the new information it can handle today.

Thing 12

I can see myself never coming away from the computer by just exploring these social media sites. Power to the people seems to be the way the top sites are posted. The Diggit site felt like a familiar set up for other social networking sites. Newsvine felt more like going to a news site like BBC.

I can see why these sites would be helpful. You can see some of the current topics of interest and keep up with popular news articles. I think the students at school would find these sites of interest because they can input on what is on the website.

I knew these sites existed but I had never visited them before. I am not sure if they are productive in say a research sense but it gives you several perspectives on the world with being able to see others comments.

Thing 11

Del.icio.us. Oh what fun. I like the way you can tag and add bookmarks (excuse me favorites or what ever term you are currently using). I think I would use this personally as well as professionally. I can see this would be wonderful for students conducting research . They would be able to save the sites they had visited at school and use them at home as well. There would no longer be the frantic search for the site they used in a paper but forgot to cite. Hmm many uses.

Thing 10

Wiki
I was just thinking this might work for peer editing of papers for english classes. I really enjoy Wikipedia already and can see this will be useful in other ways. Group projects might work really well using a Wiki tool. I know that I am far behind but I want to keep going and learn this new tools so I will finish this.

Thing 9

Well I guess I was to late to get in on the editing of the documents. It is saying that the documents do not exsist anymore. Looks like a neat idea for collaboration on items like school work and other items.

Thing 8

http://www.thumbstacks.com/play.html?show=1412e618a6765add567612b958d01bf5

We will see if this works. I could only get two slides to show up other wise I would love to use this for media classes and other classes at school.