Poll question on Fair Use

I have created a poll for a Technology class I am currently taking. Please respond by texting with your cell phone. Thanks for your participation! If you click on the slide you can view it in full screen mode in order to read the questions. Then follow the directions to text your response. To exit full-screen mode press escape in the upper left corner of your keyboard.
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After you vote--watch your vote be added to the poll in real time after you press send. It was really cool!

The 3rd choice sentence is cut off but says...must be documented in lesson plans.

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Website Evaluation For Learning For Life

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Website Evaluation For Learning For Life

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jing test

I am learning how to make a teaching video using jing. I want to try it out by posting it on my blog to see if all the pieces are there. When I play it on my computer I can see everything, however, when I play it through screencast and make it into HTML the entire video is magnified so you can't see what I was showing. Well I previewed and it did the same thing so I see embedding it with the HTML won't work, but now I have converted it to an MPEG file through moyea so hopefully it will work now. Yeah! Success! When I saved it as an MPEG I waited too long to hit a button--so it will seem like it's doing nothing--just wait 14 seconds and you'll hear the sound!

Hello

Well Lisa you are doing a great job, but you only have 30 seconds left....... JJ LOL!!!

good luck!!!!

Jackie McNabb

Fw: another test

 

This is a blogging test on the feature of email blog posts immediately.

Hope it's what I think it is!

Investigating blogging

I am playing around with the different features of this blog site and somehow, when I view my blog, the last posts do not come up. This is a test to see if this will show up when I post it.

Wow! Snow in Deer Park, Texas

What a great surprise to have snow! And that we could actually play in it. Luckily, with our deck in the backyard--it stuck there, and even as we all played the snow continued to fall. It has actually been snowing non-stop for about 3 hours. Here is a photostory of our fun night!
I hope you enjoy!(I hope I remember how to upload it to my blog. Practice makes perfect!)

Micah's 5th birthday

Micah's 5th Birthday

Alright, I tried out animoto and made this 30 second video from Micah's 5th birthday, back in June of 2008. It is a pretty neat tool. I was wondering the difference between this and photostory when I saw animoto on A Library by any other Name. VWB explained that in Photostory you have more control and it is a program that you download to your computer. Animoto is web-based--(I guess you make your video in cyberspace). I found out that I will need to organize my photos on Flickr in order to better download images to animoto. I recently upgraded my Flickr account so that I put all my digital photos on it (that's about4000). Since they are not organized, animoto downloaded 100 pics, and I couldn't figure out how to change what they were going to download. Then I had to delete over 80 pictures because the video will only take 10 to 15. Maybe a better way would be for me to download the 10 or 15 pics I want to my computer and then upload to animoto. I will definitely have to play with this more.

goforgoal

Library And The Digital Age Ii

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Library and the Digital age

I found this slideshow on Naomi Bates Blog and wanted to make sure I save it, but also share it. I want to study all of the information on it but am currently finishing projects for my classes at UHCL. Although, I may be using it as a reference for one of them. I hope someone else will use this as well.

goforgoal

a new tool

I heard about this comic book generator from VWB at A Library byAny other Name so I tried it out. It was not as user friendly as I would have liked, but Idid manage to create something. I'm sure that kids that are into making things like this would figure out all the 'bells and whistles of the program better than I did. I had a little trouble finding the speech bubbles--so I saved my work and logged out. As soon as I did the speech bubbles became a choice again, so I added them. I was able to add them without being logged in, but when I went to save, I had to log in. If you give it a try--you might want to put out your scenes first. Then pick your creatures and put them in each frame. (There is a 'recently used' that can help, but I think there is also a couple of views of the same creature and it is difficult to find if you don't get them out at the same time. You can always delete them if you decide you don't need them.) Hopefully when your are ready for speech bubbles, you won't have the difficulty that I had. If I have time, I may try to add to my book. However, it may be Christmas before I get back to it.

Thing #23

My favorite discoveries on this learning journey were photostory, igoogle, flickrtoys, and reaping the benefits of my RSS. Just since my post last night, I have shared my photostory with 5 people and encouraged them to download it and make one of their own. Since I have discovered igoogle, I have shared with everyone who spends time on the computer to check it out for it's benefits, including the Reader. I have also shared the variety of items I made with flickrtoys with many as well. I have received updates on my RSS and discovered new blogs to add that have great updates as well on what is going on in the library and technology world.

This program has assisted and affected my lifelong learning goals in a variety of ways. Without my RSS, I would not have been keeping up with new information in the library world, so I would continue to find out about new innovations and programs after they have been out for a while. I want to be able to assist teachers, students, friends and family with technology that will make their life easier and/or meet their interests and needs. I now have a 'new tool box' to start with to be able to be a 'helper' in this way.

I guess the unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised me would be how much I learned! I am still learning new things about the different tools each day by using them, but I know enough to actually be able to utilize them and help others to learn about them and use them also.

One thing I would say to do differently to improve upon this program’s format is to actually have checkpoints throughout the program with due dates. I realize it was set up in weeks, but within our class it was not required to follow this. It should have been followed. Check points throughout the course would get some of the items (like RSS) set up early enough in the program to realize the benefit of it before you are done with the 23 things.

I would love to participate in another discovery program like this in the future.

My learning experience in ONE SENTENCE is that by investigating these 'new tools', I see how easy the designers are making it for anyone to use technology with ease.

Thing #22

Nings are a completely new thing for me. I spent alot of time on the teacher-librarian ning and the Texas school librarian ning trying to understand what they are all about. I have never investigated myspace or facebook either, so I went ahead and set up an account in facebook and found some local friends and invited them to be my friend. I also found a friend from college with an account. I think this is great since that takes us back to 1985! Facebook seems like a really neat site. It was easy to search for people and it did alot of the thinking for me--such as-once I found someone I knew, I could look at their friends and add people easier that way.
On ning, I think it could be a valuable tool for a discussion forum and in seeing what other people of like interests or professions are discovering in their fields. I might use it to find more 'good bloggers'. However, the postings seemed disorganized and confusing. If I was going to use a ning in the classroom or library, I think one could be set up for a discussion forum. I was trying to figure out if this would allow people to discuss 'live' rather than posting to a wiki or blog and waiting for a response? If you could actually have 'live' chats, it could be great for discussion groups for homework assigned topics or book discussions. If it can't be done 'live' it seems a blog or a wiki would be less complicated.
I really like facebook and will be investigating it further this week. (Especially since I found a good friend's 16 year old daughter has an account. I may have to hire her to tutor me on all the things you can do on it!)

Thing #21

I became familiar with doing a podcast and making one for my midterm project. So I decided to check out photostory for this 'thing' and I was just amazed. I made a simple project from some pictures of my boys during the summer of '05. It took me a little bit to create some music, but had it not been for that, it would have taken me 10 minutes to create the whole thing. I was thrilled that I could just drag the pictures from my picture program right into the photostory because I always have trouble on my computer finding the right path to them.
This is a great resource for kids to use at school, because although I did not record any voice in my story, it is very easy to do. It is a step by step program. I will definitely be showing this program to my small GT group and encourage their biography project presentation to be done in this way rather than a powerpoint.
Here is the photostory that I created:

Thing #20

On Youtube I love this Sesame Street video about No Cookies in the library.

It shows the frustration we all feel at times when people don't always listen. I think it could even be used as an illustration of how the patron might feel if libraries don't get on board with 2.0 and the 21st century.
I also searched in Science Fair projects because they have just completed class projects at school. I found this which was kind of like an inspirational advertisement for completing a science fair project and a website to go for to get ideas, resources, and help.

On Teacher tube, I found this video that is the start of one on Librarian-teacher collaboration. I really like what's here so far.

This video and another one based on 'Blind Date' are both on collaboration. I think these short videos might be a good advertisement to the teachers to collaborate. If the teachers can then understand that it is for the good of the students and it will help them as well as their students, we will be that much closer to kids who know how to do research and find out the answers to their own questions. There are also 4 more videos on teacher librarian collaboration by the man who calls himself Dr. Loopy . I have viewed the 1st one and plan to look at the rest. If you want to check them out here is the link to part I.
I don't think you can put a price on the value of so many video resources. I think the videos aimed at the kids are great too, because that is the technology that they see and use themselves at home. Having them create their own videos for assignments, such as responses to literature or the kids explaining the process of regrouping in math would be awesome. If they can teach it, then you know they truly understand. For the youtube videos, I will be learning how to use Zamzar so that I can utilize the many good videos on youtube at school. I am still amazed that so many of the things are really good and that they are free!

Thing #18 update

While reading my RSS this morning there was a great blog from Cool Cat Teacher responding to another blog about the use of Google Docs and what happens if Google stops the program as they did earlier this week for Google Lively(everything would be lost?). For schools to use it still makes sense though. Cool Cat Teacher reminds us that IT departments delete everything in the summers (or can if they don't). Google Docs has a lot more space. If at some point Google does pull Google Docs from their tools, they would give notice and anything that you truly wanted to save you could at that time.
I still like the idea of using Google Docs in the schools!

Thing #19

I investigated a genealogy site called My Heritage. I created a little bit of a family tree. Feel free to view it. It was extremely easy to do. I will have to look for information on birth dates and some death dates, but I will be going back to fill in much more of my family tree. You can add pictures and other information as well. I don't have any information in a genealogy program, but if I did, I could import that information directly into this program. It also has a calendar, so you could make this an extended family page and keep extended family events or even birthdays on this calendar. Another thing that I might want to do is let my family know about it and they can fill in their own information as well as other information that they may have that I don't have filled in yet. There is even a place to put recipes. So those secret family recipes won't be lost. You can keep track of activities that are happening as well.
As far as libraries and schools, I think that this is a valuable tool for students to make their own family tree. It is user friendly enough that it could be used by 2nd or 3rd grade. The great thing is that the kids could save it and go back to it when they are older--or add information throughout their growing up years. What a history they could leave for their children!

Thing #18

I downloaded and explored some of the features of Open Office. It seemed pretty user friendly. I am very familiar with Microsoft Word, so I made a small word document. I think that this can be a valuable program, especially for those who may not have Microsoft Word. It certainly offers many more features than Wordpad. If it is utilized in the classroom for the students, it could save money for schools, since Microsoft does not offer a site license for its Office products. I like that it can be saved as an Office document, because chances are the computer you would have to do a presentation on these days would be a Microsoft product. This helps for those who may not have Office or an updated version of Office. I also liked the feature that would convert the document to a pdf format. That and emailing the document is right on the shortcut bar.
I don't see myself using this, just because I am so used to Office, but I am glad to know about it to recommend it to students who may not have Office. There were some nice templates and wizard for presentations as well, and they could be saved in a Powerpoint format.
I also investigated the Google Docs templates. When I investigated all the Google features earlier in the 23 things, I had saved a document to Google Docs. I thought that was what it was for--which is really cool because I don't have to carry around a flashdrive or attach a document to email. Now after looking at all the other features of Google documents and the templates, I will be using these as well. There are things for address labels, invitations, scrapbooks, presentations, and more. These also have the ability to save them in a Microsoft product format and has the benefit of having other people to have access to the document. Once again--lesson plans for grade levels and/or collaboration could all be done via this resource. I am still amazed at all the things that are available on the internet for free!
The only disadvantage that I can think of for this type of document is if the internet goes down, you would be stuck without your document if you didn't save it in an alternate place.