Teachers and Principals Talk about Google Docs

I'm so excited to learn about Google Doc!! It will come in handy now that I don't need to bring along my zipdrive and I don't have to worry about if a document format will be able to open or not.

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No child left behind comic - Irony?

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Embed a Video- Walt Disney WWII Propaganda Film

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You Tube

I love watching old music videos and YouTube is where I go to search online for videos! I watched some old Madonna and Pink Floyd videos. Reading the comments are usually comical to me and interacting online today is wonderful in being quick and active communication. Sharing ideas and telling memories are fun to read  because good ideas are born every day!

Youtube was not allowed at my school last year and that is for a good reason. Engaging students for 8 hours a day doesn't need to always include online activity. Students are showing today they know the uses of technonogy and how to use specific websites. I can only forsee in my teaching future using youtube for introductory purposes and to engage students in getting exctied about something. Students shouldn't have easy access (at school) to YouTube.

Flicker, continued

I opened up my flicker account and uploaded some photos off my computer. Conveniently, my harddrive was reaching maximum capacity so I deleted some photos off, I uploaded to flicker where the pictures were saved and I know data cannot be lost.  Additionally, I love the feature to print them off and how funny that WALMART is the place snapfish sents their prints (flicker print resource). Facebook is a life saver in that all these different websites required an email but facebook is everywhere and is an option when logging in.  Facebook is   excellent to be able to sync all these "data rich websites" with an email or phone number.

But back to Flicker..

Flicker

I was actually frustrated with attempting to copy a picture from flicker and post on my blog. It couldn't be accomplished due to the copyright issues of the persons flicker site. I explored the commons but was unable to save the picture to my hard drive. Flicker is great in that people can save their photos so they cannot disappear unlike a computer that crashes.  The New Zealand tag pictures were just beautiful!  I guess I will copy the url since that will work but I'm still confused on how to actually save a photo (commons) to my harddrive as a jpg.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4058971405/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4058971405/

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