sweet summertime

2010-08-05T11:26:00.002-05:00

I enjoyed the majority of the activities, some of them just weren't up my alley, but that is fine. I tried several things that I would never have tried before.

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
I love Wordle, it will be a must in my class this year! Skye was really fun to learn how to use. I am now able to talk with my brother based at Camp Pendleton, CA face to face, so exciting! I look forward to using my new found knowledge of skype to use this year with my librarian!

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
I don't know that it has change drastically changed my learning goals, but it has enhanced them. I have many more online tools now to add to my classroom especially when it comes to projects. There are so many ways to approach projects using the web and having fantastic outcomes.

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
I think all the posting about the different aps for the iTouches is a definite take-away. You can spend way too much time playing at the Aps store, so now I read others postings and get some more ideas of good aps for class. I know once I play with slideshare some more and get the hang of it, I it will be great. I wasn't able to get the hang of it when I posted, but I am working on it!

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
I am not sure I have any ideas. I really like the format and the concepts it teaches. I give it 2 thumbs up!

11.5 Things #11

2010-08-05T10:54:00.002-05:00

I think out of all of the 11.5 Things, #11 is of most importance and applicable at any age when using the internet/computer.Here is my list of 5 things I would discuss with my students as we start off the year in the library using the itouches and computers:

1.Safety- Stressing the importance of safety when using the web! Teaching and instilling in them that they should NEVER give out personal information to any website or person on the web. Do not get into talk with anyone you don't know either. My students of course are 5th graders, so this is of high importance for me to share with them.

2. Good resources- Helping them to identify what would be considered good resources. I would most likely give them a list of kid appropriate websites at the beginning of the year and we could add to the list as the year progressed. As they better with understanding what a good resource is, I would allow them to start looking for other resources to help their research or topic of study.

3. Etiquette- So many times and email or posting can come across the wrong way even though it was not meant to be ugly. Teaching students proper web etiquette will help them to be polite and not get into a situation where something posted hurt another students feelings. I think this would be the easiest to teach and share. No body wants their feelings hurt.

4.Proper citing- This is a must! I always stress to my students if you use something from a website then you must give proper credit to the source. I always have a sheet for them to look at in order to properly cite the source when we start to do research.

5. Cyber Bullying- This topic was discussed in our library, but also we pulled in our DARE Officer to address the issue. As we saw this past year on the news this has become a major problem for kids. So we stress to them to tell an adult immediately, don't let it get out of hand. If you feel you are being being bullied online then let an adult handle it. There is no reason for bullying online or in person.

As for my lesson, I would have the librarian co-teach it with me. Based on these five things, It would take about 5 weeks t complete. We would address each of the topics above using an online computer cartoon guy. I can't remember the website our librarian used, by the lessons were good. After each lesson we could have the students go and practice proper computer usage.

11.5 Things #10

2010-08-02T19:21:00.004-05:00

Ok, the whole Second Life thing is creepy to me. I don't have any reason, except this class to have a second life. I found it very confusing. I lost my iris' for a minute and looked as though I was possessed, then I couldn't change my clothes. I really didn't care for the outfit I had on. I am not a fan of this particular activity. I find it very strange that you can become some one else. Why, does one enjoy this? I know people do it escape the real world, but I am particularly fond of my life in the real world and have no need to be someone I am not. Thumbs down to this one. It has no reason for being in the classroom. I didn't think it was easy to understand the directions and trying to figure out how I got to China where I didn't even speak Chinese was really weird. I have experienced it for a short time span and will not go back. However, I did like my name.. Scarlet Turquoise!

11.5 Things #9

2010-07-30T15:42:00.002-05:00

This was fun to navigate through and watch some of the videos. I know that I can use it i my classroom as a resource for many of the subjects. It is always nice to not have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to ppt. I am not sure that my students could do this at the elementary level, but this would really be good for the upper grades in middle and high school. I was watching some different ppt when this one appeared. I will admit brought tears to my eyes, and made me think about the up and coming year the difference I will hopefully make in my students. I related to this video b/c I had a Teddy in my class last year. His family dynamics were not like Teddy in the video, but no one had believed in him before this past year and he had the best year he has ever had in elementary school. So off the subject of the topic, but relevant to our jobs.

A Teacher Who Changed A Child's Life

View more videos from iin hermiyanto.

11.5 Things #8

2010-07-30T15:17:00.002-05:00

I will admit I am not a fan of this particle thing. I am not exactly sure how I would use this with my class. Maybe this is a middle or high school activity. I did a really bad screencast. It was short and had no relevance b/c I am not sure of it's use.

Not a fan of this activity. Maybe I need screencasting for dummies to understand it better. I read the different links, but they just didn't make sense to me. Now it isn't showing up in my post, not sure why b/c I copied and pasted the correct code. if there is one thing I can do is embed and file!

11.5 Things #7

2010-07-28T22:04:00.002-05:00

I love the PBS site. I have used it before in my class for social studies. I just discovered the under the sea videos. These are great when we are teaching environments and habitats. There is a killer whale video that is fabulous. It encompasses so many life science concepts.

Watch the full episode. See more Ocean Adventures.

I found another really good one for science- Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is the world's most active volcano. It would not let me embed it, but it was under the topic Exploring Science. Volcano videos are great for teaching land formations, constructions and destruction of land, along with the rock cycle. I am very excited about watching this video with my students. I know they will love it!

11.5 Things #6

2010-07-26T16:39:00.002-05:00

I have an iphone, my husband has one, and my 8 yr old saved her money to buy an itouch. Needless to say I have spent way too much time playing with APs. My lists consists of APs we already had on my phone and some others that I searched. You can spend an unlimited amount of time searching so I limited my time to 20 minutes.
Here are some of the APs I found:
Math Drills Lite- flash cards

Alphabet Tracing for pre-k kiddo to practice his letter formation

K12 Timed Reading Practice- Help kids with their reading fluency using short passages that are timed

Shake'em Capital and States- a fun way to practice learning capitals and states by shaking it up on your iphone or itouch

Finger Physics- My 8 yr old daughter loves this game. You have to use strategy to figure out how to make the egg fall into the basket with out breaking. Each level gradually gets harder. Fun and strategy based.

We have itouches in our library, but haven't found the educational wow factor of using them. We really don't have time to play during the day, so we haven't used them. I don't think they are appropriate or doing research b/c the screen really is too small for multiple students to use much less one student be able to read the info on such a little screen.
If time wasn't an issue, I could see using them for math drills, working together like on the finger physics to try and get the egg in the basket, there are some board games that are math related that more than one student could play.

11.5 Things #5

2010-07-26T15:52:00.002-05:00

I personally enjoy using Facebook. It has been a wonderful way for me to keep in touch with friends from high school and college, however I don't believe it belongs in the classroom. I think the same for Twitter and backchanneling.
Computer chat cannot take the place of actual classroom participation. If the discussion needs to extend beyond the classroom then these options are definitely a good tool because the teacher can monitor and watch the discussion. People skills are very important, and businesses are still interviewing in person not through twitter or computer based chatting.
I don't think these things are bad, and can be of good use socially and to extend the class discussions outside the classroom, but I am against it being used in class.

11.5 Things #4

2010-07-25T21:28:00.010-05:00

Well, I had some trouble uploading a video to youtube b/c it was an mp4, and after watching the updated video, according to it youtube doesn't accept mp4. So I had to add the extension .mpv. I just took a shot at using this extension and hoped the video would play after I added it, and yeah it did. Now I am waiting for it to upload, with fingers crossed it will work.

What would be some advantages of having teaching/learning videos available on online at sites like these?
I like to use the Discovery videos to help reinforce or to give my students a good visual of concepts being taught. I have used youtube a time or two. I find that my students can really grasp harder concepts much easier when they have a visual. Students learn in a variety of ways so maybe having another person or video explain the concept might help students not really getting it understand better. It can also generate ideas for students to come up with their work to be published at home or at school.

What about student created work -- would there be advantages to having it uploaded?

Students generally work harder when they know their work is going to be published or there will be an audience for them to share it with. This would be a great way for them to share their learning through videos they. For all students the possibilities are unlimited, but GT students, this could be a way for them to share their knowledge and put forth some great videos.

11.5 Thing #3

2010-07-24T21:31:00.002-05:00

This one is exciting because the librarian at my school and I were just talking about using Skype next year to talk with students in another country. I reading the book Three Cups of Tea ( about one man building schools in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan). This book sparked our conversation about possibly skyping next year. My church just rebuilt schools in southern India to replace the ones destroyed by the after math of the Tsunami a couple of years ago. The government schools that were destroyed were in the slums of India so the gov't wouldn't replace them, so my church went into India and built 3 private schools for the poor children living down in the slums. So I thought I would find out more info on those schools and see if they had Skype capability. Skype brings ona whole new meaning to pen pal. I myself had never used Skype and so I downloaded it at the beginning of the summer. Now I use it to talk to my brother at Del Mar Marine base. I think this would be a wonderful way our students to learn about another country and how they learn. So looking forward to this next year!

11.5 Thing#2

2010-07-24T20:11:00.005-05:00

I really enjoyed wordle. The fact that it enlarges words that frequently appear in order to help you figure out what the main idea might be is great. I think that this would be great for kids to use for science or even social studies, i.e.- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address. I chose to use William B. Travis last letter written from the Alamo. What a great way for kids to understand text that might be hard to understand by pasting it into wordle and allowing it to help them find the main idea. It is visually fun!
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VoiceThread: I think this is a really cool way for kids to learn or teach others. They could use it for social studies. They could choose a picture from history and make up a story based on what they have learned from the time period. They could become one of the people from the picture and tell the story from that perspective. It would be a good use for younger students and struggling older children in the area of writing. It can help with story mapping, fluency and flow of story writing. if they tell the story orally then they could write it and embellish as needed. Some children are better story teller orally. Children could choose a math problem to solve, science they could take turns teaching about a concept- Photosynthesis.

Animoto: This is one of my favorite tools for the classroom when the SBISD network is functioning quickly! I use this every year for my students to make an endangered species video based on the research they did for their research papers. The kiddos love it! The finished products are fabulous and I make them a cd of the animotos to take home as a memory of 5th grade.

Bookr: I have always thought Bookr was great, but every time I wanted to use it, my activity wouldn't work with it. After looking at the archives I got some great ideas. I saw a matter book, which we make one using PPT and then print it using handouts and they make a mini book of matter. I know that the younger grades use it a lot. We also make poetry books during poetry month, so they could publish their poetry and illustrations. We could scan their illustrations for each piece of poetry. At the end of the year we sum up math by making a rhyming math alphabet math book using math vocabulary for each letter of the alphabet. This would be a fun way to do this project instead of me making bound books.

11.5 more things:Thing #1

2010-06-28T22:21:00.002-05:00

I think the student probably became very proficient on using all the internet has to offer, and probably learned more than he ever thought he would. I got my Master Degree from SHSU through their online reading specialist program. So I had to learn this way to a degree. All my lectures from professors around the education world were posted by my professors at SHSU so I didn't have to search the web for them like this student did. I did worry for the student b/c it seemed like he wasn't getting any support from his teacher.
Teacher role: The teacher support as I found out at the end of the video was much more than I thought the student was getting. As long as the teacher is modeling and helping the students with their learning it worked for me. I am a big believer that kids need a warm body and heart to facilitate their learning, not a hard box with that can entertain them. I think that a librarian can certainly play the role that this teacher did. Right now our school libraries are equipped to handle a handful of kids doing research and using the librarian to facilitate this learning.
The video was entertaining and was really well made.

Thing #23

2009-07-26T22:14:00.001-05:00

What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?

- photostory, picnik, google docs, rollyo (to help narrow searches), image generator,
mashups

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
-It has made me more aware of what is available on the internet not only for me as a teacher,
but also for my students. Now I have resources available to me no matter where I am I can
access any of these "things" to help me.

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
- I think for me the RSS feed was something I can take away and use b/c then I can have all
my favorite websites on one page. Also I loved the customizing of the my home page. I
never knew I could do that. It was really fun!

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
-Since this is the first time to do this and I am not a person who sits at the computer and blogs
all the time, I thought it was veery well developed and very user friendly!

5. If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate?
- I will definitely do another of these programs!

6. How would you describe your learning experience in ONE WORD or in ONE SENTENCE, so we could use your words to promote 23 Things learning activities?
- Great discovery!

7. Now go and comment on some of the other Players' blogs.

Thing #22

2009-07-26T22:03:00.002-05:00

I am not so sure about these Nings. I found a couple of websites that were about summer reading and book reviews. My problem is I don't have time to keep up with all the latest and greatest books for 5th grade, so I can I can go to the Librarian Ning and find out about different books for my class and myself. I am not sure I would use this in class b/c it takes up more time than I have for my students. I will continue to look for Nings related to books and share them with my class.

Thing #21

2009-07-21T17:18:00.003-05:00

Well, I really liked this. It is right up my alley. I have made several animoto videos, but have never used photostory or podcasting. Our school has used photostory and they have turned out great. I did a photostory of my duaghter. She had to do a timeline this year in first grade, so I already had the photos ready to place in order.

Thing #20

2009-07-13T14:03:00.002-05:00

I really like youtube and teacher tube. I watched teacher tube at school before when we were in computer class. I watched a video on classroom management and transitions. There are so many videos to watch and search through it can be a little overwhelming. Eventually I get tired of searching them all. There were so many different videos that popped up for libraries on youtube, some useful others not so much.

B/c we can access teacher tube at school it is definitely worth to use it instead of trying to download and embed youtube. I will use this resource next year for sure I just forget about it, but now I won't.
The video that I chose was the Preamble by Barney Fife. I have my children memorize and recite the preamble ach year, so I thought owuld be funny to show them.

Thing #19

2009-07-08T21:31:00.003-05:00

I chose to play with picnik photo imaging. I wanted to play with comiqu, but the server was down and I couldn't play with it.
I took our family pics from the ranch and made a collage and played with it in all sorts of ways. There is a plethora of choices for you to choose from to make collages or just make plain pics into really cool concoctions. I don't know that it is any more special than another photo sight, but I have used other picture maker programs and this one I like the best.
I don't know how a library can use it, but within the classroom I can think my class could use this for gifts for their parents or even just playing for fun and making projects. This is just a fun sight to play with. If you pay for the premium package, then you can do a lot more.

Thing #18

2009-07-08T19:24:00.002-05:00

I like Google Docs. I played with it at the beginning of this class and got to see all the docs it offers. I like that I can use Google docs and can access it from any computer b/c it is saved on the internet. It offers so many different templates for presentation designs, fun card templates so my students can make their own invitation cards for their parents through out the year, albums and flip books are also really great.
I really couldnt decide if there were any disadvantages to Google docs b/c I really couldn't find any.

I have not been able to check out Open Office b/c I registered but they still haven't sent me my confirmation with my login info and it has been over an hour, it loses for sure. Maybe when they send me my login info I can play with it, but it is taking to long!

Thing #17

2009-07-07T22:38:00.002-05:00

I really like this site! I find that 5th graders have a really hard time narrowing their searches and end up with all sorts of websites that are not relevant to their needs. I do an endangered animals report as an culminating project to our science unit of environments and our novel for reading about an endangered animal that a girl has to try and save. Rollyo helps to narrow the field down to popular sites for age and relevance. Here is my link to my page on Rollyo.

http://rollyo.com/sweet_summertime/mrs._marshmallow

I can see myself using this site during the school year.

Thing #15

2009-07-07T21:25:00.002-05:00

Sorry, they are out of order didn't realize this until I posted 16.

I am going to respond to the Away from the icebergs Library 2.0. To me it seemed that these articles were written by people not in the world of elementary schools, mostly colleges. I could be wrong, but that is what I got from them. Ok, now to my response- as someone who earned my masters degree in reading through Sam Houston States online reading program, I can see both sides of the issue of paper libraries vs. online libraries. I did all my research online through the SHSU online library with all the articles I ever needed and of course the web to find info also. Not once did I use actual library building to check out books or do research. So at an upper level of education like college, I think the just in case colleciton is not useful. At the elementary level they need the hands on experience of checking out books and learning to love to read. Snuggling up with a good book is easy to do, but snuggling up with a computer is not so relaxing. I find myself constantly trying to find a comfortable position with this laptop, but I juts can't seem to do it.
Again all 3 of these issues, I think depend on the level at which you are teaching. Kids need to understand the idea and purpose of doing research. They need to practice it also. I know in my class the kiddos do most of their research online, but I do have them check out at least on book to reference. I also use the books to help them see and understand how information is organized. I agree that we need to help the user learn to use the internet efficiently in order to read and learn instead getting stuck with non-useful sites and information.
I agree that there always has to be some sort of change or progress in order to keep a business running, you can't stay in dark and keep your business going strong, but do think there is a way to incorporate both the virtual library and he physical library. Librarians are the key, along with teachers, to getting kids hooked on books and interested in reading. Kids need to be able to pull and book off the shelf and get lost in it.

Thing #16

2009-07-07T20:39:00.002-05:00

I am not sure how I skipped thing 15, but here is thing 16.
I really liked this exercise with wikis. It was very easy to understand. I have used wikipedia, so I was familiar that it was a type of site to get info. I don't understand why these wikis would be able to be changed by anyone b/c that does leave it open for anyone to put false info out there, but that is the chance you take when using this type of source for finding out info on topics. I liked the video explaining how you could use a wiki in a group situation. That was really cool the camping example. I am in the middle of helping coordinate VBS at church and I have so many emails I can't keep them all straight. This would have been a wonderful way to share new info between all of us. Finally, an exerice that was easy to understand!

Thing #14

2009-07-06T23:43:00.002-05:00

1. I couldn't find tagging on Technorati. I did the search and found some non related stuff to the topic.

2. Ok, the surprising thing is I don't understand how people have time to post all these blogs and tags. I just don't have the time to spend blogging and tagging in my daily life (teaching, being a wife and mother), so I didn't really find anything that was of interest to me.

3. I am sure there is something beneficial in all this tagging, but it is just not for me and my world. I really find it time consuming and something time wise that would work in my classroom.

I think to really understand these last few things you have to spend way too much time playing with all these web sights. I think if I had someone sit down and walk me through all this I would have a better grasp of it all.

Thing #13

2009-07-06T22:49:00.002-05:00

I found this all to be very confusing. I use facebook and get tags all the time, but I thought that just meant I was seen or "tagged" in a picture.
I can see the potential of using this for research purposes within the classroom and being able to access these tags from any where. If you were to assign your class a topic to read up on, you could tag some articles for them and then have them choose which ones to read. There are limitless areas in the curriculum to use this with, but I still don't have a good grasp of this whole concept. I guess I am going to have to do some more research on this and talk with people to really get a good grasp of tagging.

Thing #12

2009-06-29T21:42:00.003-05:00

1. The 2 things that I thought were important were posting a meaningful message and criticize kindly. I am one who would leave one liners instead of really responding to the post. I really thought about why it is important to leave a meaningful message versus a one line post and I will be more aware and post more meaningful post. I guess I am talker not a writer or typist, I would rather say it than write it.
The criticize kindly was good. Just like with words out of our mouths we need to be mindful of how we respond online. I found through emails that b/c you can't see the person's face writing your email it can be hard to determine if they are joking or being serious sometimes. If we disagree with someone in person we handle or should handle it in a non confrontational or constructive way instead of attacking the person for seeing things differently, same goes with online. We need to make sure that our children if they are blogging that they are doing it in a kind way and not being rude to others online.

3. I posted blog on the issue of white fire fighters getting passed up for promotions due to Sotomayor's ruling, which was over turned today by her future colleagues if she makes it to the Supreme Court. I choose this b/c my uncle is a fire fighter and I am tired of discrimination of any color. if you are qualified for the job great! It shouldn't matter what color you are.
I also posted on 1800Blogger about Yao Ming's possibly career ending injury. I am a big basketball fand I can't believe some one so big is always hurt. He should be plowing down others, not smaller players plowing him down.

Thing #11

2009-06-26T23:40:00.002-05:00

I liked Library Thing. This a great way to catalog my classroom library. I my classroom library on sheets of paper. This is my kind of user friendly website, very simple to use. I looked at some of the groups and the only one that interested me was the Children's fiction group. I saw lots of Harry Potter groups, which were interesting, but not my interest. I can't wait to catalog my classroom library!

2009-06-26T23:04:00.004-05:00

Thing #10

I really enjoyed this activity! I had a lot fun being creative and making a few things. The Comic Strip Generator was fun. I thought that there was some inappropriate comics on there so I have to say that as an elementary teacher I don't think I want them on that website unless I was able to have them search specifically for certain images. Here is my image:Next, I went to WORDLE. I realy liked this website, but unfortunately I found a posting from a teacher asking if they could censor or make a kid friendly website and the answer was no he doesn't censor his website. So this would ahve been an excellent site for the kids to write their vocabulary words for science or any subject with important vocab to remember. They could also use it to put quotes/ text that interested them. I was not able to create mine and I couldn't figure out the problem.

I played with the happy Face Generator. I made my name on it. I don't know how the kids would use it except for just creative fun. You can't tell but it is Zebra stripe.

Thing #9

2009-06-26T22:17:00.002-05:00

1. I felt they were all about the same when searching.

This activity didn't really peak my interest too much. I did find what I think was a news worthy blog to add to my RSS was my daughter's camp blog. This is very useful for me so I can keep up with her at camp and all the activities happening throughout her week there.

Other than that I had a hard time being interested in this activity. I didn't know what to search for b/c I don't think this is anything I will or can use in my classroom.

Thing #8

2009-06-24T16:13:00.002-05:00

1. I think this is a good idea to be able to put all your favorite websites on one page instead of going to the individual pages.
2. I would not use this in my class or in my personal life because I don't spend all that much time online unless I am shopping.
3. I honestly cannot answer this question, I guess at the middle school and high school level the teachers might use it depending on the subject they teach.

I will be happy to publicly share my reader list, but it really isn't much to look at considering I most likely will not use it.

Thing #7

2009-06-20T22:50:00.002-05:00

1. Google Advance Search- I really like this site b/c it is user friendly. I was able to pull many different ppt for all subject areas. Sometimes we just need a visual for certain curriculum and this is a good for me to show it. I will use this a lot next year. You can find just about any topic or subject.

2. iGoogle- I really had fun with this website. It was fun to create a home page. I had fun looking at all the different gadgets that I could add to my home page. My favorite was adding the hungry turtles to my page. I fed them a bunch of food and then watched try and get it all. I am sure I could play with them for a while. Sad that I get simple pleasure out of watching 2 computerized turtles swim around for food. I also liked being able to choose what news was on the page. I spent way too much time playing with all the features.

I made a vaction photo album. but now I can't find it, but I also was having troublr putting my own pictures on it. I was able to drag pictures from Flickr on to it, but I want to figure out why my files were to big when it accepts 2MB and my pics were less than that.

Thing #6

2009-06-20T13:17:00.005-05:00

I thought the Sunset:Get Sunrise and Sunset times along with phases of the moon activity was really great. Kids have such a hard time with concept of how the earth rotates on its axis and how the moon revolves around the earth along with its phases. This seems like the perfect website for helping the to understand this concept. I was intrigued by it b/c you just click on the map anywhere and start from the east and west to clearly see the how the sun rises in the east as the earth rotates the sun gradually begins to rise across the earth and set. Not sure how to use this in the library.

There were so many activities to choose from that it made it hard to really focus on one. I agree that the trading cards site is excellent- you could use them in so many different lessons across the curriculum. You could have the class do a research paper on a famous American, hero, or just a person and then the kiddos could trade them out with each other after each presentation. Obviously, the students would need to check out their library books/ use the web to find out info on their subject and then put their research together.

I played with just about all of them, so I had a hard time just choosing one site. I give this activity 5 start rating!

Thing #5

2009-06-15T23:58:00.005-05:00

I found some really great pics for science and social studies for landforms. This would be a great site for them or me to use to find actual pictures to go with landform definitions. of course there are plenty of other pics you could use for 5th grade science and even social studies. There were some really good pictures of American history.

Avatar

2009-06-15T23:00:00.000-05:00

Still can't get my avatar to show up on my page!

Thing #3 part 2

2009-06-10T22:53:00.001-05:00

ok, where the heck did my avatar go? It was there before I posted thing #3 and then when I published thing #3 it was gone!!! UGHHHH!

Thing #3

2009-06-10T22:49:00.002-05:00

This sucked trying to get the avatar on my blog page. The directions don't tell you to change the format to JPG. Once I did that it worked. I hope this is the hardest part b/c it was frustrating.

Thing #2 Life Long Learning Habits

2009-06-10T22:10:00.003-05:00

easiest habit- teaching b/c it come naturally to me
hardest habit- viewing problems as a challenge instead of crisis

This video wasn't really anything new for me. It just makes you rethink my habits and if I am following through with all of them especially the play part!