Thing 9

I have mixed feelings about Youtube and its uses in the classroom. I have friends who have posted video of their children on youtube, and I enjoy being able to see my friends from other parts of the country. I also explored different videos from my Facebook account. There was a fun one posted by a friend of mine that did a parody on the song "In New York..." and changed the words to fit New Hampshire. I have also looked at some political posts through youtube.

However, I do not like some of the comments that are posted on youtube. I also don't like how anyone can see these and post anything that they want. For example, many students are taking what people say on youtube as fact instead of opinion. This scares me because I think it is getting harder for students to tell the difference between fact and fiction on the internet.

Although I had a lot of fun exploring youtube, I think the jury is still out on how I would use this with my elementary students.

Comments on Thing 8

I just played with "spell with flickr." I had fun looking at the letters and what you can play with. But, when I tried to copy them to my post, I ran into some trouble. I wanted to copy the whole word and paste it into images, but I had trouble with this. In the end, I took the long way. I saved each individual letter and cut and pasted that into the images. Then, when I previewed the image, I had pasted the letters in the wrong order, so I had to play around with the order. There must be a quicker and easier way to do this. I'll keep trying!

Thing 8: playing with images

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Thing 7

I created a Flickr account and I am excited to try it's cataloguing options. But, I already use Shutterfly and Picassa. Flickr is thorugh yahoo, so I created a new e-mail account. Do people prefer Flickr to other online photo sites, and if so, what makes you like flickr better?

Picture of the beach

I'm not sure if this will work, but I am trying to upload one of the beach pictures that I found.

Thing 6 continued

I think Flickr can be a valuable service to use with parents. We have a slide show twice a year for Celebrations at our school to celebrate students. We also have a Closing House that parents attend at the end of the year. Parents have sent me pictures on CDs to include in these. Recently, some parents have sent links to sites like picassa and shutterfly. Wouldn't it be great if we could catalogue all of these in one place? I would just be concerned with privacy laws, though, and creating a new place every year.

Thing 6: looking for pictures

When looking for pictures, I was immediately drawn to pictures of the beach. My family just spend Easter with my parents at our beach, so I wanted to see if anyone else had pictures of our special place. I have posted pictures to shared family websites before. I have also searched sites such as google images with my students, but these were for very general images to be used in presentations such as Power Point. I have never looked on the web for specific pictures before, so this was fun. It was a little challenging to narrow the search, but I was able to find a few pictures that I liked. I was also able to see some pictures before the terrible beach erosion of the past few years.