Monday, October 5, 2009

Week 3 #7

I have a couple of challenges when using technology and thought maybe someone may have suggestions as to how to deal with them. The first is that whenever I set up any of these web 2.0 tools, I use them so seldom that by the time I come to use them again, I have forgotten how to load a photo from flickr to my blog, for example. Any thoughts on how I can avoid this? And no, I really don't want to be using these things all the time. I just want to remember how to use them when I use them the next month.
Along with that, I always seem to forget the passwords, usernames, etc that I set up. Anyone have any tips?
I have found that once I got over my fear of pressing buttons and links, I discovered that you can't really do too much damage. And so now, I just press buttons until I press the right one (isn't that what our students do and look how competent many of them are (or appear to be))! Then of course, I often don't remember how I did it to repeat the process. My the learning curve is high!

Week 3 #6

I have looked at the mashups and have determined that there must be many people out there with lots of time on their hands. Who creates these things and who has time to try them all?

I really liked the mappr that I explored and this is one that I could see potential for using. I travel lots and think that how much more meaningful maps could be for our students if they were able to attach photos to the map so they could see what it actually looks like in that location. In fact, my colleague and I are doing maps with a class and having them research historical sites along their highway. I wonder if we could get photos of the historical sites and have them attach them to a map. I'll have to look more closely at this site and see if I can find any instructions for doing this.

I also liked the colour pickr and montagr. I'm wondering if the colour pickr could be used in an art class with students.

Week 3 #5

Well, I guess it was easier than I thought to add another photo. I still find that I have to click on a few things before I find the one I want. At least that has taught me that I can't destroy anything or erase things by just clicking on them.

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Originally uploaded by canadian gal library

Here are the parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada.

Week 3 #5

Well it took me a little while and a lot of pressing different links and things to get this photo up here. It seems to me that whenever I read the instructions, they seem straightforward until I try to do it myself and then the links they suggest we click on never seem to be there. Does anyone else have this problem? The interesting thing is, I'm not sure that I could repeat this process again. So saying that, I'm going to try and load another photo so that I'm sure I do know how to do it.

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Originally uploaded by canadian gal library

I visited this beautiful city in May!

Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.