Thing #10

Play around with online image generators---Playing around with image generators was a lot of fun. I liked all of them except Kid-friendly Image Generator----I found it very difficult to figure out how to save it to my computer. Plus they wanted me to buy it.
Happy face generator was great, and so was Comic Strip Generator.
I was actually able to put in on my blog! Success.

I'm not sure how to make it a link, so I will just say that I got the cartoon from Comic Strip Generator at http://www.txt2pic.com/toons/

Thing 9-

Useful library-related Blogs and News feeds---Wow! Way too much information! As I looked through the sites, I became overwhelmed with information. I don't see how people have time to go through all (or most of ) these sites every day and still do their work. I barely have time to read the local paper on Sundays. Working full time and taking care of everything in my life leaves me little time to "browse" other people's blogs.
As for the sites...
Bloglines was okay, it was pretty easy with good information...
Edublogs really didn't suit my tastes or interests.....
Spurglu was interesting, but seemed to have many repeat blogs...
Google blog search was my favorite, easy and to the point....
Topix was fantastic, I would use this site....
Syndec8 was hard to navigate...
Atomic learning was the most appropriate for class use.

Thing #8

RSS----What do I like about RSS????? I liked being able to select my own news. It was fun to read all the news and comments. It was also very time consuming. If you are the type of person that is on your computer all the time it is perfect. For those of us that just use it at work...a little much. Using this at school would take a lot of early work to make sure that the sites are appropriate and on topic. It would be helpful if teachers gave a list of needed topics to the librarian and let he/she set up the RSS pages for your class. Unfortunately, this is creating a lot of work for the librarian. My vote is still out on this one.

Thing #7

Cool Things with Google... Wow! I have always used Google as my main search site. It always seemed more logical and organized to me. The Google Scholars site was interesting. I was able to find out a lot of information about the novels we read in class. Google calendar was okay, but I prefer a regular paper calendar. Google Docs tour was confusing, but Google Earth 4.3 was amazing. I loved going right in for a ground level tour. Seeing the buildings and cars and streets...very exciting. The only thing was it made me remember the old saying...Big brother is watching...

Thing #6

mashups and 3rd party sites. Mashups and mosaic maker and mappr...oh my! Lots of information and things to learn. My favorites are the mosaic maker and the trading card maker. I think the trading card site would be a great hit in class. The kids will love making cards for themselves. You could even use this site to make trading cards for characters in novels. What a fun project!

Thing #5

Flickr...Extremely interesting. The groups were fun to look at, but some of the pictures might not be appropriate for school use. Using Flickr will make presentations more interesting. I do think that time will be a problem for most classes. I'm not sure about the proper form for giving credit for the picture, so I will just say the picture is by

Caitlyn Willows photo stream 100-0050.

Thing #4

Yeah!!!!!!!! I am officially registered! I hope you all enjoy my page. On to the next thing...

Thing #3

Avatar! Wow, that was a challenge. Once I figured out how everything worked it was fun to play with all of the outfits. I hope I set everything up okay. It is overwhelming when you are sitting at the computer and you don't want to mess everything up.

Thing #2

7 1/2 habits...I think I am good at playing and trying to find the win/win in every situation. Learning to blog will be difficult, but it will sharpen my saw.