Another great way to use Flickr and Warholizer. The picture is a three year old going down the boardwalk to the beach in December.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Trading Card Maker and Flickr
There are so many Flickr toys (this was made using Trading Card Maker) and things to do once pictures are uploaded to Flickr. This has many application in the use at school. I think Elementary and Middle School students would really enjoy working with this and it was so simple to create a great looking trading card.
This would be wonderful for our Pa. animal research or 3rd grade Habitat unit. They could create their cards from their research. Another great way to advertise the Award winners.
I had to play around a little and it was interesting how the background color changes the look of the trading card. This would take so little time to show and create a nice product the students would like. The pictures could be already posted for the animals that the students are studying if time needed to be saved.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Mosaickr and Flickr
mosaickr The photo is of my library using mosaickr hundreds of pictures of books create a mosaic. So interesting and fun.
DEN Virtual Conference - Technology
What a fantastic way to spend a Saturday – at a National Conference (First DEN Virtual Conference) with the focus of Web 2.o in my sweatpants and sweatshirt sitting on a comfortable chair with a front row seat with over 1,000 other educators from at least 4 countries.
This virtual conference with nationally know speakers had sessions that will be archived. Sessions were: Lost in Translation (Lance Rougeux)Revenge of the Digital Immigrants (Hall Davidson)Building a Bigger Builder (Matt Monjan)The Bionic Lesson (Mike Bryant)50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story (Steve Dembo)DEN in Second Life (Lori Abrahams)
Keynote: “Lost in Translation” presented by Lance Rougeux -- Lance Rougeux stressed that our students are bilingual they students speak a different 2nd language a digital language and we are the ones who need to have the IEP . One great websit to make sense of the lingo students speak is transl8it . Great books to read ttyl or ttfn ot l8r, g8r are by Lauren Myracle
Other interesting things discussed were Moonk , voice threads , mosaickr
DiscoveryEducationScience for Elementary looks like a fantastic area for my students as science is going to be playing a bigger part than previously because of standards now.
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators has a nice section of Web 2.0
For on-line professional development DEN from Discovery Education or for DEN Blogs -----
A great book to read “A whole New Mind” by Dan Pink
Additional information later it is back to the conference now.
Other sessions included
Keynote: Revenge of the Digital Immigrants
Breakout with Steve Dembo - 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story derived from 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
Breakout / Building a Bigger Builder
Steve Dembo's - 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story was fantastic -- I am looking forward to going to the PETE&C and all the technology information I will learn on Sunday from DEN and then for Tuesday’s Opening Keynote: Steve Dembo (Online Community Manager, Discovery Educator Network) Learning to Speak Native: How education can be transformed in 140 characters or less. The hardest part for me will be choosing which sessions to go to as I want to be at more than one at a time.
This virtual conference with nationally know speakers had sessions that will be archived. Sessions were: Lost in Translation (Lance Rougeux)Revenge of the Digital Immigrants (Hall Davidson)Building a Bigger Builder (Matt Monjan)The Bionic Lesson (Mike Bryant)50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story (Steve Dembo)DEN in Second Life (Lori Abrahams)
Keynote: “Lost in Translation” presented by Lance Rougeux -- Lance Rougeux stressed that our students are bilingual they students speak a different 2nd language a digital language and we are the ones who need to have the IEP . One great websit to make sense of the lingo students speak is transl8it . Great books to read ttyl or ttfn ot l8r, g8r are by Lauren Myracle
Other interesting things discussed were Moonk , voice threads , mosaickr
DiscoveryEducationScience for Elementary looks like a fantastic area for my students as science is going to be playing a bigger part than previously because of standards now.
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators has a nice section of Web 2.0
For on-line professional development DEN from Discovery Education or for DEN Blogs -----
A great book to read “A whole New Mind” by Dan Pink
Additional information later it is back to the conference now.
Other sessions included
Keynote: Revenge of the Digital Immigrants
Breakout with Steve Dembo - 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story derived from 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
Breakout / Building a Bigger Builder
Steve Dembo's - 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story was fantastic -- I am looking forward to going to the PETE&C and all the technology information I will learn on Sunday from DEN and then for Tuesday’s Opening Keynote: Steve Dembo (Online Community Manager, Discovery Educator Network) Learning to Speak Native: How education can be transformed in 140 characters or less. The hardest part for me will be choosing which sessions to go to as I want to be at more than one at a time.
Using Flickr
Uploaded by palindrome6996 on 1 Feb 08, 4.30PM PST.
I am planning a trip to London this summer to see my daughter so I wanted to find some sights that others have found interesting enough to take a picture. In searching for a photo of London, England I had 530,378 pictures to choose from. I narrowed it down to Big Ben, London, England and still had 10,043 pictures to choose from. I was then able to narrow it down by the most recent pictures, this was taken September 16, and uploaded February 1, 2008. . I found it very interesting how many tags were included with this picture, including London, big, Ben, clock, bell, England, hands, 11:45, 11:45AM. It also said some rights reserved which basically told to include the photographer name.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Flickr
In my time with Flickr I have had many interruptions and in a few short days I forgot the passwords that I made on Monday and had to make more today. Pictures of my library can be found at Flickr . In my exploration of Flickr I was surprised to see so many beautiful pictures of the places we go in the Adirondacks and also Potsdam, NY where we were planning to go after school today until the storm hit.
7 1/2 Habits
7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners
Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind – Determine the goal and learn what is needed to accomplish it and the length of time it will take. To me the most important make a roadmap to accomplish the goal.
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning – Value learning, begin different courses and take an active role. Learn from others.
Habit 3: View problems as challenges – View the obstacle as a learning opportunity, a challenge to learn from and provide the motivation to learn. We can not always be on top of the mountain sometimes the most learned is getting to the top. I’ve found depending upon the degree of the problem sometimes it takes real determination to get back up.
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner – To me it is important to think positively and not to say things unless it is the way I want them to be, choice of words and thoughts are very important to success.
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox – Putting together a toolbox of books, classes taken, notes, others who know more and can mentor and various technology are all helpful along the way.
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage – Technology can always be an advantage in learning ex. the ipod to download information and music, and Skype is so wonderful for communication and especially to talk with my daughter in London and GoogleEarth to see what her neighborhood looks like. We can talk and see each other as often as we want. I use it to talk to my other daughter and grandson who live in PA also.
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others – I enjoy this the most as I integrate the technology and help other teachers I learn more and share the enjoyment of technology and many ways to integrate it into the curriculum. I enjoy teaching Community and Continuing Education classes.
Habit 7 ½: Play – The hardest and the one I appreciate the most. I try to practice this and have to remind myself to play because I tend to be a perfectionist and get involved and do not take the time to play. Lately I have learned to realize how important Habit 7 ½ is. Taking a technology course can be considered PLAY right? How about 2 on-line technology classes? Play becomes easier when the weather is beautiful and the kayak is calling my name.
Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind – Determine the goal and learn what is needed to accomplish it and the length of time it will take. To me the most important make a roadmap to accomplish the goal.
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning – Value learning, begin different courses and take an active role. Learn from others.
Habit 3: View problems as challenges – View the obstacle as a learning opportunity, a challenge to learn from and provide the motivation to learn. We can not always be on top of the mountain sometimes the most learned is getting to the top. I’ve found depending upon the degree of the problem sometimes it takes real determination to get back up.
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner – To me it is important to think positively and not to say things unless it is the way I want them to be, choice of words and thoughts are very important to success.
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox – Putting together a toolbox of books, classes taken, notes, others who know more and can mentor and various technology are all helpful along the way.
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage – Technology can always be an advantage in learning ex. the ipod to download information and music, and Skype is so wonderful for communication and especially to talk with my daughter in London and GoogleEarth to see what her neighborhood looks like. We can talk and see each other as often as we want. I use it to talk to my other daughter and grandson who live in PA also.
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others – I enjoy this the most as I integrate the technology and help other teachers I learn more and share the enjoyment of technology and many ways to integrate it into the curriculum. I enjoy teaching Community and Continuing Education classes.
Habit 7 ½: Play – The hardest and the one I appreciate the most. I try to practice this and have to remind myself to play because I tend to be a perfectionist and get involved and do not take the time to play. Lately I have learned to realize how important Habit 7 ½ is. Taking a technology course can be considered PLAY right? How about 2 on-line technology classes? Play becomes easier when the weather is beautiful and the kayak is calling my name.
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