Thing 17: Podcasts: No iPod Needed!

Basically, from my understanding, an Podcast is similar to a television series. You pick and choose the ones that interest you and you pay no attention to those that don't!
One podcast that I enjoyed watching was the Math Factor Podcast. I enjoyed seeing the excitement involved in mathematics as well as the curiosity about trying to figure things out. I also watched a few segments from dansmathcast. There were so many segments to choose from on this page that it almost seemed overwhelming to choose where to begin. I chose both of these podcast from the 23Things page. I am interested in doing a lot more searching for podcasts that I will be able to possibly use in class. I would like to be able to find something that will show my students ways in which they use mathematics in the real world since this is a question that I am faced with many times throughout the year.
This is my first experience with podcasting, so at this point, I do not have the experience to blog about!

Thing #16 - LibraryThing: Where Books Meet Web 2.0

Library Thing would be a great resource to use as a principal of a campus. This could be a great way to encourage lifelong learning through reading educational books. This could be a list of the "teacher library" books as well as books that both teachers and principals have that they wouldn't mind letting other teachers borrow.
This would also be nice to use on a personal level. I enjoy hearing about different titles or authors from people with similar interests. By searching other peoples "library," I would be able to find people who have some of the same titles as me and then see what additional books they suggest.

Thing 15: Social Bookmarking and Tagging with Delicious

Playing around on Delicious is something that I think I could end up spending hours doing. It would be nice to be able to get our whole math department to sign up for this that way we could share ideas and useful websites with each other. I really like how you can look up one particular tag and will be able to see a list of websites that were tagged with that word. Then you are also able to see who posted them and can even add them to your network. I looked up math and am able to see a huge list of websites that I can then explore and see if they would be beneficial to me or not.

My Delicious page is located here.

Thing 7a: Google Reader Revisited

As I have mentioned on several posts at this point, my favorite subscription on my Google Reader is NPR Topics: Children's Health. It seems like every time I look on my Reader, there is always another recall on either childrens medication or toys or something. This time the title of the article was Johnson & Johnson Expands Recall Of Drugs With Moldy Odor. Every time I see another recall on children's medication, it makes me run to our medicine cabinet and check the medicines in there. Luckily, I have yet to find one that was on the recall list. Better safe than sorry!

Thing 14: Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

The first Web 2.0 Tool that I experimented with was 30boxes. I really liked how easy it was to add new events to the calendar. This would be a great tool to use as a family. We could create a calendar for our immediate family, but also create another calendar for extended family. This would definitely make it easier to keep up with all family birthdays, school or sporting events, anniversaries, and family get togethers.

I also experimented with Wordle. This is something that I had used before this exercise. We used this website as a class to create a different type of vocabulary list for the students to have with them at all times. I would like to use this more to be able to give students a list of vocabulary words for each unit.

Thing 13: Online Image Generator

Cute Pictures of Children




Spelling with Flickr


Creating the mosaic was a lot of fun! Think this could be really interesting to do with personal photos for family gifts. It was as simple as picking the number of photos you want to use, picking the outlining color, and then choosing the pictures that you want to use. Inserting a picture was as easy as browsing for the picture you want, inserting it and clicking on upload. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this was. I also enjoyed using the Spelling with Flickr. I would have added that to this blog as well, but I could not figure out how to get it to show up! Maybe with more time, that is something that I will be able to figure out how to do!

Thing 12: Creating a Slideshow (or Comic Strip)

I decided to do a comic strip showing what I have done this summer. I was really surprised at how easy this was to complete.

My Comic Strip




1. Potty training my son by wootam
2. Swimming by millzero
3. Shopping by jovike
4. Playing with my kids by Peter E. Lee
5. Family time by freeparking
6. Online Classes by Signature SugarArt

I thought it would be fun to find pictures to show what all I have been doing this summer! I have been incredibly busy with my boys! They are growing up so fast that this summer has made me realize the importance of doing everything I can with them now!