We had another great class last week in Web 2.0 in which we learned to use two more useful and interesting web tools -Picasa Web Images and Delicious Social Bookmarking. The class directions were clear, and before the night was through, we had created an online web album and a "Cloud" of categorized favorite bookmarks. I always leave the class anxious to try everything personally and with my students. This weekend, I actually used Picasa to upload many photos that I just took from a weekend getaway to Las Vegas (Baby)! I came right home on Sunday night, plugged in my digital camera to my laptop, opened Picasa and directly uploaded the digital images to Picasa, instead of adding them to my hard drive (which takes up so much memory). I then played around with captions and sent email invites to friends and family. It was easy, quick, and fun.
As for using Delicious, I still need to block out a good bit of time and categorize all of my favorite websites that I added to Delicious. I may need to do that over Easter break. I do see the benefit for tagging the bookmarks, but it takes time. I will spend some of my vacation evenings doing just that for future ease.
This week, I am allotting tech time with my ninth grade students to set up their gmail accounts, IGoogle page, Audacity, GCAST, and Blogger in order to create Blog Journal Portfolios for our current novel unit. I plan to share my initial lessons with our class this Wednesday.
Signing out.
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