Thing 19

Thing 19 is learning about podcasting. I could have spent a long time exploring all of the different podcasts available. It seems for any subject you can think of, there is a podcast for it. Again, with the populationn of kids I work with (newborn to age 5), I don't think this would be a great option. However, for my personal use, I certainly could get a lot of info from this site.

Thing 18

I spent a lot of time checking out all the slideshows. It is incredible the amount of information that is out there. I think this could be a wonderful tool for students in middle and high school, as well as for teachers of K-12. I embeded a sign language slide show.

380 Baby Sign Language

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Thing 17

I finished Thing 17. I explored bubble.us, Zoho Show, Remember the Milk, and my favorite, Flashcarddb. With the population of kids that I work with many of these tools presented would not be appropriate. For personal use, I really liked Remember the Milk and Flashcarddb. I can be quite forgetful at times, so I think Remember the Milk could be a useful tool for me. I am going to give it a try and see how it will work. My daughter is a junior in High School. She spends many hours writing out flashcards. I am excited to show her Flashcarddb.

Thing 16

I just finished Thing 16, Google Docs. I feel a little like a broken record.....I had no idea this was out there. There are so many templates available for so many different things. It is a little bit overwhelming. I am not sure this is something I would use very often. I'm not sure that I see the advantage to this over attaching a document to an e-mail. Maybe once I play around with it a little bit, I will see how it is a more efficient way to send documents.

Thing 15

I was happy to revisit RSS. I did struggle a little with this assignment, however. The instructions in the vidoe showed to click on sub with bloglines bookmark. I didn't seem to have that. I am not sure what I missed, but I will try to go back and work on it some more. I had not been to my blogline site, so it was good to go back to that, as well.

Thing 14

I am so excited about Delicious. Apparently, at one time, I knew about this, because I already had an account, although I had not bookmarked anything yet. To me, this seems like one of the most useful tools that I have learned so far. What a time saver!! It is very user friendly and simple to use. The only problem I had was my own computer. It kept freezing on me, so I ended up only bookmarking 3 sites. I am very anxious to revisit Delicious.