Web 2.0 Adventure

As a part of the Cherokee County Teach21 program, I took a class on podcasting last year (with our very own Sandi Adams!) and so I have used iTunes to create a short podcast.  I also enjoyed the videos on Common Craft and PodGrunt included with this assignment and thought that both of these did [...]

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What an incredible resource for our English teachers – just getting students to take a look at their own personal libraries.  On a personal level, I would love to get all of these books in our house organized with this Web 2.0 tool.  Just to get started with the kids’ books really appeals to me [...]

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I guess that the biggest attraction of delicious.com for me is the (1) portability and the (2) organization of the site.  I really like that my bookmarks will follow me anywhere, regardless of what computer I am using.  The benefits to our students are similar; while few high school students are consumed with organization, the [...]

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The Fischbowl continues to catch my attention, and this time it was back to another Google-phenomenon.  Earlier this week, Karl Fisch reported on Google’s uncanny ability to help preduct flu outbreaks across the country, based on the Google searches for “flu” on the Internet.  Earlier looks have shown a close correlation between people with the flu [...]

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picnik.com:  I totally played and had fun with this assignment, starting with some family pictures and adding lots of special effects.  Then, I took a picture of my sister’s house (that I want to sketch for a Christmas present) and worked to lighten the shadows so I can see more details.  I was really pleased [...]

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The Google Gamut — Everything You Need to Get Started caught my attention because just yesterday I received an email from my college freshman daughter stating “Do It!!!  — http://mail.google.com/videochat” and, of course, I did.  And we had so much fun visiting by video.  Somehow, although I had downloaded Skype long ago, she was just [...]

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Chocolate PB:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginamig/564209730/   •°o•°o Gina •°o•°o
 
Chocolate Scotcheroos:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/60852569@N00/2150299810/  capn madd matt
 
Chocolate Mint Cupcake:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanaroo/164480063/  QuintanaRoo / Emilie Hardman
 
Chocolate Lab:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/oakley92107/3000992315/in/pool-justchocolatelabs/  Justin Oakley
 
Chocolate Car:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/northrider/2933213459/in/pool-ilovechocolate  M A O
 
 

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Oh my!  There is so much out there for chocolate — no wonder I am addicted!!
 

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Because I am trying not to eat so much (which is obviously somewhere short of dieting), I seem to have food on my mind all of the time, so I searched Flickr for one of my all-time favorite topics:  Chocolate.  And I used the option to limit the search for CC images only.  It  was [...]

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I really enjoyed watching these videos; although I had heard of Creative Commons, I did not fully understand the evolution and history of the concept until tonight.  Given the collaborative nature of the web, and of the world in which we live, in general, it was critical that something like this evolved.  With the legalistic [...]

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