Thing #19 Beyond Facebook: Other Social Networks

It may have taken me longer then most people but I did it (ya me). I started this lesson three days ago and when I was working on my reply to Dr Wall's post the power went out and I lost everything. As you can tell I am the proud member of TeacherPop. I am finding that a lot of these sites have the same features. I decided that I will hold my pictures and keep at one site this will make it easier to keep track. I did go to the other sites listed in the task. I liked Shelfari and think that it is one that I will visit again and again. But the one that I found most appealing was Bake Space. This could be just because I was hungry. I may not know how I would use it for teaching but give me some time I will come up with something.

 http://teacherpop.ning.com/profile/Phillip

Thing #18 Explore Social Networking

This was one that I hated. I do not like face book. I know that for some people it has great benefit. To me it is a waste of time. I know that the whole point behind this thing is to teach us how to use to talk to other teacher  about topic that come up. I have known many teacher who say that they do not even have time to grade papers. I feel that at some point it will be great but I do not feel that it is great for everyone. At school we are told to be very aware of what we post on facebook. Also we are told that when we apply for a job people will look for our facebook account. That is just to much stress to mess with. I have heard about all the good that can be done and I understand it's benefits that is all I care to do.

Thing #17 Tagging and Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us

I followed the tutorial on what to do to sign up for Delicious but it kept trying to sign me into my yahoo account. This was not going to work for me all of the stuff I do is on Google. I have set up a iGoogle home page, calender, and reader. I do not what to link it to my home account. I did look at some of the tags. It does seem to be very helpful. I can see that this will be a site that I will use vary often. I just need to see how to link it to my Google account. I know that there are tons of links that will help but this is starting to get nuts. At some point there is tech overload and I feel that I am there.

Thing #16 Get Organized with Web 2.0

I created an iGoogle home page. I was able to add the reader gadget that way I could keep up with the blog, twitter, and other pages that I look for information from. We kept loosing power so every time that I would get started I would end up not getting things done. I tried to add remember milk but we lost power and now it will not take my log in info. It is nice having this as my home page because it take just a second to see want needs to be done. I have spent the remainder of the time trying to get a picture of my home page. I will try it one more time and lets see what happens.

Thing #15 What in the World is a Wiki?

I can see why people use Wiki. This is a great way to talk work together. If you can do it. I set up my own wiki site undre wetpaint. My goal is to have teacher place in ideas on this wiki and as we try them we can up date what works and what does not. There is the chance that the site can be misused. I have set the site so that NO one can edit anonymously. By doing this it should keep the site more reliable. So if you feel like placing your ideas for lessons down so that other can try them and give you feed back. I will be posting my beach ball math.
http://hansoloandcdebaca.wetpaint.com/

Thing #14 Go with the Flow

I signed up for Mind Meister and started to work with it. We have used apps like this in the job that I worked. It is a good way to brainstorm. It just started to scratch the surface of what the site can do. It will be something that I have to spend time with it in order to get better with this app. I also went to Gliffty. I did like this site and spent about an hour with the different charts. My favorite was the SWOT. I would like to use this chart when getting ready for parent teacher conference. This would be a chart that I could give to the parents. It gives them a breakdown of their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. It would be something that they can look at and discuss with their child. Then I could give them another one at the end of the year.