Thing #9

In my experience with custom sign generator I tried several different projects. Some I found easier than others. I kept having problems with their server so it took me a lot longer than it should have. I tried the glitter signs, logo's, comic strip and writing on pictures. These could be very fun projects for any person or any group of students. I generated a logo for my project. My project consisted of picking out the template and choosing the colors that I wanted. I then typed my text and chose the font and letter spacing. Then all you had to do is save it and post it onto here. Here is a picture of it.

Thing #12

The 2 google tools that I explored were Igoogle and the calender. I am familiar with several of them but I really enjoyed the Igoogle because that is something new for me. I loved how you could pick your catagories and add a clock and several other gadgets to the webpage. I picked the calender because anyone could really use that not only to remind a teacher that it is test day but she/he could also use it in for personal information and used with the alerts could be very helpful.

Thing #11

I searched out Topix and the Google blog. I found that I liked using Topix better than the other because It was real easy to search topics using keywords where in the google blog feeds you had to search for the topics the search all the blogs and subtopics. I would find several useful feeds in travel including the weather and traffic, along with road construction and road conditions. I used google search and internet explorer along with yahoo search for other newsfeeds.

Thing #8

The ways that i could use mashups in the classroom is to encourage the students that different objects and letters can lead the read anything. Any kind of Mashup mixed together can help the students create there own learning by having fun. In the personal era mash ups can be used just to have fun, by creating them, or to spice up their wedpages, or bedrooms. Being creative helps a person learn and express themselves in different ways.
I feel that sharing photos isn't a really good idea, i feel that the artist should reicieve the credit. Looking at pictures in a museum, on the internet increases the interest in learning, but i just think that sharing them shouldn't be allowed.

Thing #10

I like about ASS and News readers is that they give you access to many different things.It not only just gives you access to research but also movies that allow your projects to be better. Inside school you can use it as a web based program that allows you access for what you can use in you school. Inside the personal lives you are able to use it to communicate, and do any sort of research you need.

Thing #7

This photo is by eckiblue. It was found by browsing through the calender in September. It was also found using the keyword nature. The site is very easy to browse through but takes a while to browse the pictures because each photographer has so many pictures uploaded. For an example one photographer on the site had 512 photos with 119 of them being of Kuwait.

Thing # 6

The site that i chose was widgets. I chose this site because it has different tools that would help the students create their own webpages, blogs, and very useful information. Not only with creating the webpages it has many different movies and research tools to do with you tube, giving the students access to learn what they need to. The likes over this website is many and throughout playing with the tools i haven't found anything i don't like. The biggest like about the website that interested me was that it has differnt clocks, data charts, and just whatever you may need to customize you page how you may like it. I really think that this site would give many applications to the schools and the library, because it had both the research materials with you tube, but gives the students and teachers a way to express themseleves in appropriate ways.

Thing # 5

School 2.0 mean to me that the schools are going strictly to technological ways of teaching. Yes i do agree that technology is great to enhance the learning of the students, but one day what will happen to the teachers. Teachers will always be within the schools and will never probably be replaced by technology itself, but my reaction in reading these articles are more less students will pay more attention to the technology in front of them instead of the teacher one on one instruction. So basically what i am trying to say that School 2.0 is good within the schools but it really means to me that I'm worried it will one day take over the interaction between student to teacher. School 2.0 in the future will include lots of the blogging, technology learning, and more internet cites like myspace, and facebook, but within the school district.
My thoughts and reactions in reading these articles just completely amazed me how the world when i started school was focused on the teacher teaching things other than technology. When i first started school i never did anything with a computer, and today it seems like that's all school requires. By the time i finish school I'm on it everyday doing something for school. I think that the old fashion way of pen and paper has just lost the meaning.

Thing #4

Commenting on blogs helps create a better sense of community interaction. I feel this is because it gets the community, you family, and your friends involved in you life. Commenting helps other people to understand how your feeling when your upset over something.
Two other points from the reading that i felt like was important on commenting was that making meaningful comments make the author feel important or good about themselves, it lets them know that they are cared for. the other thing that i found important was that drawing attention to you blog is a good thing. It makes people want to know more about who you are, your likes or dislikes. Drawing attention to your self makes you feel important.
For my blogging i chose Randi Canto, Kemesha Fullman, Gregory Blaeuer, Troy Morris, Cyzz Walters. Those are the five from our class. And the two not is our class i chose Heidi Burns and Alexis Clemens. I chose these seven blogs because each one had there own unique way of connecting with how i feel in those particular areas. Each one of the blogs that i responded to i really liked what they had wrote about.
I chose to comment what i did on each of there posts, because i wanted them to know how much i really liked what they had written. Whether it was just about there avatar or there ideas for blogging within the classroom.

Thing #3

The ways that i could use a blog in the teacher education program is endless. The major reason i would use it is because you can use it as a messenger. Ask from help form you fellow classmates, how you might make something better, just to see how there day is going. Using the blog inside the teacher education program enhances the values or success, and making fellow friends as co-workers, mentors,etc.
The ways you could use the blogger in the future classroom is by letting the students have access to the technology. Having each student have a blog just within the grades allows the students to be able to learn the technology and to talk with there friends, The teachers can blog to their students and tell them what a good job they are doing, to keep up the good work, or just to see if everything is going well with school work. its just the little things that make a difference inside the classroom and out.

Thing #2

The problems i have had registering this blog has been amazing.The normal steps with the name address..etc were okay. My problems are remembering the password and getting my avatar onto the page. And as you can probably tell i haven't actually succeeded getting it on to the computer. I feel like a complete moron trying to figure out the simple stuff. I might figure it out, i might not. I really don't know...Overall, that has really been my only problem, although creating my avatar was quite the adventure. I had a lot of fun with it, now if only i can figure out how to recieve my avatar bak and put in on my Blogger.. Tricky Tricky