Thing 17

At first I was waaaayyyyy confused about what this Rollyo thing was. After watching Bruce's video it was perfectly clear. This is a great tool to weed out the riff raff.
Here is my link in case you want to read about Jay Cutler, the Chicago Bears Quarterback. A side note, he is diabetic.

http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=jay+cutler&sid=638100

having some trouble making my link HOT. Will try again.
Got it!

Sweet Thing 16

I'm still a bit perplexed about how to incorporate wikis into my daily job of a teacher

I am a Health Fitness teacher and our goal is to keep students moving and growing towards healthy fitness goals. I need to continue to learn how to use technology in ways that help me achieve that goal such as networking with other health fitness teachers.

Our State PE organization, TAHPERD, should have a wiki regarding their events or curriculum or just things "PE".

Thing one five

I enjoyed watching this video. Very insightful. These are my learners in the video and I have to find ways to incorporate their world into my environment. Just like Library 2.0, I have to be "user friendly" and "inviting".

Libraries have to keep up on a daily basis with the rapid deluge of information as it relates to their patrons and how best to relay the information to them.

Thing 14

Discovery activities:
1. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for “School Library Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different?

My search on Technorati was the same; zero found for School Library Learning 2.0 under blog posts, tags and in the blog directory. Perhaps I didn’t do this one correctly.


2. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results?

There are lots of entertainment and gossip blogs.


3. Create a blog post for Thing #14 and express your thoughts regarding how Technorati and its features could assist you. Since you have now looked at several tools that use tagging (Technorati, de.licio.us, & Flickr), add your thoughts about the value of tagging information.

Technorati can assist me a great deal personally but I'm not sure how much it could assist me in my Health Fitness classroom. Within my Health Fitness association this would be beneficial to share ideas to keep kids moving, since the goal in Health Fitness is have moderate to vigorous activity at least 50-100% of each class. Tags such as cardio, kids health and stretching would be beneficial tags to share.

THING 13

At first I wasn't sure how to use this site in my classroom, but after watching a few tutorials I realized it can be quite beneficial to me. I liked delicious.com and diigo sites. I will use the delicious web site to better organize my Health Fitness websites. When I organize my bookmarks and tag them, I will see what others out there have tagged like mine. Hopefully, I can find useful sites to incorporate in my professional world. This type of site can help teachers find topics quickly as well as share. Sharing is good.

Thing Twelve

Well, Thing 12 has been interesting and despite me stating that I wasn't a reader in Thing 11. I did do a bit of Blog Reading and...enjoyed it.


I am looking forward to checking out some blogs and commenting on them using some of the 10 techniques such as don't criticize and interacting with other comments. I will continue to make comments on this post as time goes by.

I blog searched Houston animals and found two good blogs. The Houston Zoo blog is pretty cool.

I'll be back.

Thing 11

I am not a reader. There I said it. I like to read and do read but not for pleasure. During my down time I like to nap, garden or watch TV, that is when I have down time. I can see how the Library Thing can be a cool tool for those in the "reading" world.
I did find a group that shared my interest but I didn't check it out aggressively. I am now onto thing 12.