Wikis and Online Production Applications & Tools

What a great class tonight! The filters were off and the computers all worked!!!!!! We explored wikis and had interesting discussions about the many ways to use wikis. We commented and edited the wiki.We learned even more ways to use Google-wow! Google docs may well be the wave of the future-accessible from any computer. What a great idea. :DThe learning never stops-what a blessing.

Session 4 Photos and Images

Wow! We explored Flickr tonight. I had already signed up long ago, but had not really investigated all the cool things the site has to offer. It was frustrating not being able to access many sites and even our blogs for nearly 2 hours into a 3 hour class. We face this and other sign on issues every week. You would think the powers who control this would be prepared instead of us trying for hours .

One great site we visited was FD'SBigHugesiteLabs. Another name for this site is FD'Sflickrtoys. Lots of neat things to make, apply, whatever you want. Many uses for the classroom, many more personal uses!

I can't wait to go home and try out some of these applications.

Session 3 Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

Loved del.icio.us! If today had not been such a challenge- issues with teenage son (now I really know why tigers eat their young-and I feel like a tiger...lol), school, and computers in the lab not working for over an hour, I would have enjoyed more. Can't wait for some down time to play more!

Here's to the next class and computers that behave.

Session 2: RSS & Newsreaders

Wow! Tonight we learned about news feeders and RSS feeds. I frequently go to different news sites, but these will deliver the news right to you. The only problem--more emails! I blogs-first selected a group or three (you can select by subject) then realized I would get tons of these to my school email. I decided to limit these feeds on this blog, but will add them to my home blog.

We also added websites to our blogs. One of my favorite is: http://foodnetwork.com. Another is: http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes/bizarre. The recipes here are really not bizarre, but you can find interesting and useful
recipes.

Melissa's

Today I had my first of 6 Web 2.0 Academy classes. Whoo Hoo! I intend to learn all types of new web and techie applications. Then I'll be "styling on the web" lol!

All this as I teach summer school Reading to 15 3rd graders. Wish me luck!

At the end, hopefully I'll be able to use many applications throughout my life, although I'm not sure you could call me "Goddess of the Web" at that point. :)