Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Week #9, Thing #23
I suppose if I had to summarize my experience with the "23 Things", it would be "ENLIGHTENMENT". Please, please do this again. If I hadn't participated this summer, I would have been forever floundering around in Craig's List looking for all manner of unnecessary stuff!!!
Pat Kuhn
Monday, August 18, 2008
Week #9, Thing #22
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Week #9, Thing #21
Week #9, Thing #20
Libraries can take advantage of user-generated video that often adds to resources that are woefully underfunded. Furthermore, use of this kind of resource allows for up-to-the minute global collaboration. For the last couple years I have collaborated with our ESL teacher who uses the annual Iditarod race as a springboard for teaching a host of subjects including math, science, geography, language arts and political science. In the past, the students would use the Internet to access daily reports of the progress of the competition. However, with the use of YouTube, et. al., students are treated to a first-hand, close to real time, perspective of what it means to run this grueling race. I've embedded a video from YouTube presenting a musher's birds-eye view of this Alaskan tradition.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Week #8, Thing #19
Week #8, Thing #18
Fun with ZOHO Writer,Week#8, Thing #18
i am experimenting with ZOHO, specifically the ZOHO Writer feature of this application. There are several different features one can switch to including a speadsheet, presentation (think..PowerPoint), Website, Wiki, Planner, Chat creators and MORE. Being a Web 2.0 app, of course a big advantage of using ZOHO is its collaborative power. If only I'd known how "easy" it is to edit documents using this kind of application, I would have convinced a colleague ,for whom I and another colleague were editing a complicated document ,to use ZOHO or Google Docs rather than emailing back and forth, trying to keep track of who made what changes and when those changes were made! Sure looks like a full featured word processor, A LOT like Microsoft's Word. Another advantage of using this kind of authoring tool is that one can always find the document to continue editing since it is located on the web and not somewhere on a flash drive or on your home computer.