Many Favorite Things...United Streaming!

As I reflect back at everything I have learned so far, I have enjoyed so much learning and growing from this MILP project- I will be sad that it will not continue but I am glad teachers can still participate in another technology event- I use United Streaming so much that my final blog post needs to address how wonderful it has been for me to teach with it- If I can get my act together- I believe that I will use more of the information taught to us! But I am using United Streaming to find video clips to use in class and these videos have generated great class discussions! Thanks for everything! MILP has taught me so much!

Thing #20 Podcasting

How interesting it has been using a few podcasting lectures in my classes- I haven't done it live but I have recorded myself through the phone with a few of my lectures. I have a student who is on medical leave quite a lot and for his assignment I had him listen to the lecture notes and answer questions. I saw him again today (Monday) and he stated that the lecture helps more than just copying my notes down. I'm glad it does for him! Now I just have to do more of it since it has helped him. Can I saw "wow" again!

Thing #23 Del.icio.us!

Can I cay Wow! Perhaps one of the best part of this project is using Del.icio.us! I'm done with bookmarks! I created my Del.icio.us site with information for all my classes- I can actually organize it and use it more effectively than my bookmarks! I have students coming in this week to work on make-up work and I'm hoping to show them some of the sites on my Del.icio.us site to help them. I believe this is by far the most organized I have been with my websites!

Thing #16 MnLINK

Thanks for the great session on MnLink- I was happy and overwhelmed as I looked though additional resources for teachers. I've decided to create a website of MnLINK dedicated to giving students historical reading about the Harlem Renaissance and the Roaring 20s. From these collected work students will explore specific social, political and cultural pieces of society- we will spend 3 days in the lab with this activity next week and I will blog about how they use resources from MnLINK.

Thing#18: One Student Thing

I am truly amazed at what our students can do with technology! I was helping Nancy Plagens out with the history day project as a judge and I saw two fascinating pieces of documentary created by students using iMovie-can I saw WOW! I am so proud of what great work students have done with technology-I don't know how to use iMovie but I would love to know if anyone knows how and can show me.

Thing #36 Social Networking

I finally asked my niece to show me her myspace personal site and I have to say that I am very uncomfortable with using it as my social networking site. I don't want to expose anypart of myself in myspace, although my niece said that you can block and allow people on your site. What do other people think of myspace? After looking at niece's myspace site I didn't even want to explore Facebook!
I talked to my husband and found out that he uses a social network called "Linkedin" to network with his graduate classmates. They often shared ideas from academic readings, shared job announcements, and worked through projects together. This sounded much more like the networking I am interested in-
Am I just "out" of the social networking happening today?

Thing #28: Photos and Images

My husband is a professional photographer and I have posted some of our travel pictures on my blog. He uses a site called pbase.com to host and share photos with people around the world. This is a nice site for people to look at photography and learn from each other- of course I am not a photographer, I often cut legs and arms off people I take pictures of so it was refreshing to see such professional work on a website!
I find that I like flickr- it is a nice site with so much- When I was teaching about Afghanistan, I uploaed a map from flickr and used it as well as other photos of everyday people in Afghanistan. Pictures make such a great difference in teaching!