Week 6 Thing 14 Technorati

I just finished exploring in Technorati. It is amazing to discover how many blogs are out there in the blogosphere. Technorati is a fantastic tool to help you search for blogs you would be interested in reading regularly. I signed up on Technorati and claim my learning blog. I searched under the tag of libraries and young adult fiction to find blogs I may be interested in reading regularly. I added those as favorites and added tags to them.

I have learned how tagging in Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us helps save time for those who regularly use web 2.0. I also like that once you find a blog you like to read, you can find out what that blogger likes to read in Technorati and possibly find other blogs to read. It's similar to a book recommendation from a friend with similar tastes.

Week 3 Thing 7 Flickr

I do enjoy technology! Digital cameras are very easy to use. I own a simple one but after playing around in Flickr and looking at the amazing photographs, I'd like to get a better camera. I'd love to take a class in digital photography. One of the things I like to do when I have spare time is to scrapbook. I'd love to try digital scrapbooking. I had great fun playing around with some of the programs available in Flickr. I would enjoy learning how to manipulate my digital photographs with special effects. I am also a great fan of the Ipod. I've taken a short course in Podcasting and I can see all kinds of uses for that technology. I found a few teachers that actually record their lectures with a digital recorder and then post it on their web pages. I would have loved to have had access to this type of technology when I was a student. I was a slow notetaker and missed many points of lectures. Students who are not strong auditory learners would benefit from this type of technology, as would English Learners, student with particular learning disabilities, atheletes who miss class due to their competition schedules, etc. What a powerful learning tool!

Week 3 Thing 6 Flickr

I played around in Flickr some more today. I made a magazine cover and my own Read poster. I checked out the library trading cards. I definitely plan to make one in the future. I saw lots of applications that would be great to use with students. Here's a sample of my poster.

Week 3 Thing 5 Flickr

This is a picture of my daughter's fun summer reading. I took the photograph and uploaded it to Flickr. This week I explored Flickr and was truly amazed at this resource and all the creative people that have a place to share their photographs. I signed up for an account. It was easy! I practiced uploading and tagging pictures. Flickr has inspired me to get back to my photography. It was something I used to do a long time ago but I haven't made the time for it lately. I really want to get back to it. My daughter is planning to take a digital photography class in the fall. Perhaps it will be an activity we can do together.

Again I had a problem uploading the picture from Flickr to my blog. I kept getting two pictures. I deleted one and then tried to post the blog but received a message about a split tag. So I ended up uploading the picture from my computer. This same thing happened when I was uploading my Avatar in html. I'm not quite sure what is happening.