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Weekly Reflection

I have spent the last couple of weeks keeping myself updated with the threads, gathering resources and information for my final project, and tweaking my igoogle account. I have continued to look at my facebook account which continues to grow as far as members each day and started to use some of the websites with my classroom. We took a look at the voki website the other day and also ventured into a couple of other websites that I saw in last week's class session. Along with working with these things, I have also been slowly reading Christensen's book. I still have 3 chapters left and I want to complete the reading before you post a thread on the book. I appreciate the workable caseload and guideline for the final paper. This whole class has been an eye opener for me I we were whirl-winded into to it, or at least I was. It has given us access and resources to many websites that we can incorporate into our lessons.

Get a Voki now!

Amy, Tech Masters Program

Hey Amy, I did read that article before you had posted it and I got a chuckle out of it. I did think that same thing you thought as I read it.

Week 4 Reflection

I told myself at the beginning of this program that I would not take the weekends away from my family for schoolwork. Well, this past weekend i did just that. I spent a majority of the weekend working on my strands, playing, and looking for ideas for my final project. And I actually didn't take too much time away from my family since I did take breaks to get some wrestling or pirates or crazy 8 in! I was very pleased with my progress on the strands I made over the weekend, but still find it frustrating at times with my "playing." I thought playtime was supposed to be relaxing and fun. UGH! (: I knew that my time was going to get cut short with baseball games starting this week and I didn't want to feel overloaded when the week started. To be honest with you, I didn't get as much "accomplished" this past week as I did the previous week. My goals for this next week are to create a cloudmap, or whatever that is called, continue to work on a podcast, and work with Diane and Lisa with a hover board for the smartboard. YIKES!

Twitter

Kristin, I do have an account on twitter and I know that Barb has one as well. I tried finding everybody in the cohort when I was looking for frinds on twitter, but only found barb. I should be there.

Week 3 Reflection

I wish that I would have talked with Lisa a week ago since she just told me how to add a sticky note to my igoogle page 2 minutes ago. I told myself to start a journal of activities and sites that I have ventured in and out of the last week. I will attempt to remember all of the things that I have down since last Wednesday's class. Before we were given week 3's thread, I printed the class notes, 3-25-09, and took a closer look at them. Since I am a pretty concrete learning, I decided to start at the very first website mentioned on the notes and go from there. The online readings were interesting, but I basically read them and moved on. I spent a bit of time on twitter, facebook(too much time!), and bloglines. I am still a little leary about twitter so i didn't spend a whole lot of time there. I did however, spend alot of time on facebook. I now have 3 college buddies, 2 baseball buddies, and 5 out of state relatives that are now my "friends". It is pretty neat, but time consuming! I signed up for bloglines.com just to see what is has to offer. This seems like a more popular site than the blogspot.com sites that we all have. Whenever I want to "share" a video or document I can never find our blogspot site, but blogline comes up. I did also check out oddcast.com and found it pretty cool and funny. Once again I spent alot of time on this site just playing. Then I tried to download a whiteboard from scriblink, but it was taking forever and I decided to moeve on. Another downloading difficuluty I had this week was that website from classroom 2.0 live; podcast. Elluminate something or other was taking forever to pop-up and when it did I only got the audio version of the clip. GRRR!!! I decided a different route to learning about podcasting and didn't have a whole lot of luck. I embedded a youtube clip onto my blog page and titled it. Did NOT understand what this dude was talking about! My last attempt of this week anyway, was to go to gcast.com and give that podcast education a shot. I registered and then got nowhere. I feel so stupid with this podcast stuff. I am a visual/hands-on learner and sometimes the e-learning is not my style! I even tried a nasa.gov website was intended for kids to get started podcasting. Yep, no luck again. I have not completed all of the article readings yet for the week, but I wanted to jog a majority of what I did this week before I forget. I am sure that I forgot a couple items that way it was.

Elluminate Live

Has anybody else had difficulties with trying to look at the podcast website listed in the class notes under classroom 2.0 live? Because I have. GRR!

Is he speaking English?

Comment

I just made a comment on Kristin's blog and was curious to see if it would show up on my blog anywhere. It didn't, no big deal. Just playing.

Chuckle

I hope you guys enjoy as much as I did! Too funny!

Well then

I guess it is still there. I just posted that last comment and when I came back to my page it was there. Cool!

Fine tuning

I am still working on uploading videos. The video that I uploaded isn't there anymore and there are a few videos there that are kind of well, disturbing.

Hey, I'm on the blog account list.

Test

Hi

Hi, I don't know what I am doing. Just testing the waters.