Tech Treasures

I feel like a pirate opening a treasure chest. I have spent the week trying to assimilate all that I learned at FETC last week. My Google Reader has been overflowing with new sites and cool lessons to teach. And I have papers to grade, so exploring new stuff is always more fun!

Here are the jewels for the week:

* My own iPad! I received an iPad as part of UWA’s project to see how we could use table computers in the higher ed classroom. I am trying to pace myself though and see how my iPhone apps work on it and then I will add other apps. I also started a blog for this project.
* Cool web pages to locate Creative Commons pictures for digital projects
o Wylio
o FlickrCC
o Compfight
o Multicolr Search Lab
* Awesome Stories web site that tells all types of non-fiction tales with great multimedia links to audio, video, pictures, and web pages. I was especially intrigued by The King’s Speech since I have seen the movie twice.
* Appolicious where you can create lists of apps for the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch and share with others. Here is my first list.
* Knoword is a great vocabulary game that I have test-driven on my computer and my iPad. It’s almost as much fun as FreeRice.

So there are my five gems of the week. I hope that you find some treasure that makes you happy you stopped by my blog. Please leave a comment on how you liked or disliked the tools.

Who Knew?

http://bit.ly/e6a54v

I had no idea that I could add pages to my blog. What an eyeopening experience! :)  I don’t know why I had never explored my blog page beyond the posts and comments even when I did a previous blog challenge where I beefed up my sidebar, butI absolutely love Pages!  I never knew this was an option.

I had great fun creating my About Me page and then looked back at what people had said about great posts and I decided to take these bits of advice for my About Me page.  I added links to the things I mentioned and added pictures that I thought were interesting. I also asked for feedback via email since you cannot comment on a Page in a blog. Nothing yet, but I am trying to be patient. But now that I am posting this to the blog, maybe I will get comments here.

In my looking at other About Me pages, I did find some good ideas. For one, I added a Blogs I Have Commented On page because I saw it on Malyn’s About Me  page was very informative with information about her technology life and beyond. I also liked the idea of having a Portfolio Page on my blog; this idea came from Kirby .  BerryArt’s Blog also had a great About Me page.  On Lydia’s About Me  page , I really liked that she put her avatar and her actual photo up on the page. Also, I checked out Paula’s page and at first was not impressed, but I didn’t wait for the Glogster to load. After it did, all I can say is WOW!

So this activity #3 in the Blogging Challenge  seems to have been good for lots of us. I still need to go and leave specific comments on the pages I mentioned above, but I am working on it.  We are learning new things, going to other blogs, leaving comments, and sharing our ideas with others.  Hip, Hip, Hooray!