Thing #20

I found a nifty video of a North Dakota farm that I thought would be fun to share...
Most of the video shows wheat farming, which used to be a big crop - last year we just saw one wheat field - no sunflower fields - no maize - just corn --- ethanol is making a big impact on gasoline - but also on all other products related to the other grains.. sparsity will raise the prices of them - and the corn ethanol hasn't lowered the gasoline prices... makes you wonder!! If you watch the video you might want to turn down the sound... the song talks about amarillo.... the rest of the words are good...!
Makes me want to make a video of my own to post and share..

Thing #19

What a fun list to explore! With so many things listed, it was nice to see some names of places that we have already visited.. I enjoyed visiting some of these sites that would be a stretch to use at school...but they were interesting to me... it is the summer.... ImCooking is one of that group.... fun little videos on things to cook.... a personal type similar to the food network shows that I love...Urbanspoon gives you lots of suggestions on restaurants to visit -
the music sites made me think that I might need an Ipod afterall... I enjoyed the 30 second snippets that are available for free... the only one that we could access at school was Mog - since Bo Diddley died recently he was listed on a most visited list... even 30 seconds of his music as good...
The One Million Masterpiece looked like a fun place for an art teacher to visit and possibly contribute to... travel sites like Boo had so many pictures and suggestions for places to visit...

Thing #18

Wow ! - that google doc worked really easily...
You can read it posted to my blog (below)- no problems!
I didn't type in a title - but I could have...
interesting new google tool... they do say that it is new and in progress... do you think it is too soon to ask for more fonts and color??

OK - with limited fonts and no color to type in this is not as user friendly as it could be...
I was already familiar with Open Office as my son (my techie helper) installed that on my personal laptop 5 years ago and disregarded the microsoft products that came with my computer... so when I do something at home that is what I use... He also installed Mozilla Firefox as my browser and email set up.... as long as it works easily I don't care what it is!!
Google Docs says that I can move this to my blog... Pending my ablility to do this is here!! so let's see if it is truly easy!

Thing #17

So... now I think I know what that little red Rollyo is ! What a nifty way to narrow searches for students..
Debra Messing even has one posted! - who knew she was a web surfer!?!
I made one with elementary library sites... when I went to look it had advertisements added...
hmmmmm...

Thing #16

Having seen a little about wikis before this "Thing!" I felt like I at least had a little prior knowledge...
These look like a lot of fun...
I wish I knew how to make those how to movies like Lee does on the Common Craft Show... they are so easy to understand and fun to watch...
I am going to wait for a decision that will need to be made when the faculty returns and try to set up one for us all to practice with...
On to #17 to figure out that funny thing on the Library Resources Page...

Thing #15

Library 2.0 - I am just catching up with the world on this term and my son tells me that it is old terminology - after reading all of the links and perspectives on this section I can see that 2.0 is old news... this technological world moves f a s t - and I am way behind!
There were a few quotes that I liked - such as the one from the iceberg article suggesting that libraries are insufficiently staffed for teaching - If we have 700 students and 100 faculty members our patron to librarian ratio is about 800 to 1 - no wonder I feel overwhelmed -
I loved the idea of putting buttons on our computers to make using many of these tools easier for patrons - I am wondering how students can set up accounts without email addresses...
I am looking forward to exploring the next things... wikis, rollyo - I am wondering about ATOM - I see it mentioned with RSS often....