Thing 14

I know that I am posting out of order............but I have gone through many of the things and just not been able to cpmplete my post when I did them.

About delicious.......not using it. Not that I do not find it useful, but I have personal issues with yahoo. Someone led me to diig through another post, and I have found that I am comfortable using that. It even has a area of their site dedicated to teachers. I have found many interesting items on there already. I have bookmarked several things to search and explore over the summer. I have plenty of things to work on this summer to help improve my overall tech skills. Now, just to actually get through them all, and take care of my usual summer chores. I am hoping that as I come back in the fall, I am ready to head into classes with a new found skill area to use with my students. I think this will be most interesting as I co-teach in my English class. We have enough difficulty getting through to our lower level English students. Maybe an infusion of technology, as well as, the other new things we have in the wings will get the students interested and engage them more in their personal learning process. Now, on to see how some of these other things will be useful to me......and those I co teach with.

Thing 17

Ok.....I cannot get the question to copy in here.....how un-techie is that. Am I reverting backward or just having a bad day........we shall see. I went through the sites in 17. Those were some new ones that I had never heard of, but a couple that are similar to others that I have used. I have used webspiration with my students for writing/concept mapping, etc. What I love about that site is it lets the students move from the concept map to an outline....therefore making it easier to turn what is in the outline into an actual paper. Last year, my co-teacher and I used it for a major assignment with our students and we were pleasantly surprised by how much better their papers were. I also looked through remember the milk. I have the out of milk app on my android phone and the online version. I have only been using it for a short amount of time, but love it. The idea of library thing is great. I was just talking to my husband about a similar type of application, online or on my phone. I haven't been able to find one I like that I can access both ways, and does exactly what I want it to do. I will be looking at everyone else's post on this topic to find ideas about similar things that others have found out there.

Thing 11

What do you like / dislike about leaving comments? How did you feel when you received your first comment? Why do you think commenting is so important in online communities? What might this mean for students who share their writing online?

The idea of leaving comments is not new to me. It is something that I do on facebook, so it isn't really all that different. The thing that bothers me about leaving any comments, anywhere, is that it is hard for people to get some things through comments. Things like humor, sarcasm, and other emotions are sometimes hard for people to convey in comments, or others to pick up on. I think that receiving comments is helpful, because good comments can help you look at things in a different light/from a different perspective.