Exploring Thing 7 - Write about anything technology
Before setting out on this journey, the explorer found herself participating in and playing with all kinds of web 2.0 sites and tools! So many accounts, images, profiles left at each little island on the voyage. Well, in an effort to 'leave no trace' the explorer decided that it was time to make an account of all of the web 2.0 identity eggs that she left at each island on this short, arduous journey and take responsibility for all of the cyber clutter that was floating out there in the vast waters of cyberspace.
A useful twitter contact led me to this site:
Digital Decluttering: Clean up those profiles!
My challenge - to 'clean up my act' before moving on to Cyber Thing Island 8!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Things 5 and 6 achieved!
hings 5 and 6 were all about using Flickr and Flickr mashups as a photo sharing tool. The Journey took her to Flickr - a place that she had only experienced through email invites from distant relatives. Discovering the Flickr site, and creating an account was eye opening, as was the in-depth exploration with Montagr and Spell with Flickr.
The flickr site shows huge promise for this explorer, as a place to post, tag, and upload photos to blogs that I may interact with. The mashups, while entertaining, were time-consuming, and unless there is a way to capture the mashup beasts for use as background images, or blog images may prove too unwieldy.
The Land of Flickr
Land Ahoy! The large colourful island of Flickr loomed ahead. Upon landing, the explorer disembarked and stared in awe at the visual wonders before her. There werel images in this land that could satisfy the thirst of a thousand camels - and they were all there for the taking!
The explorer helped herself to one of the mathematical wonders that she thought her minions in her homeland of Edutopia would enjoy. She carefully packed her new treasure, Isometric Cuboids in her treasure chest for future use.
Isometric Cuboids
Originally uploaded by maureencrosbie
The explorer helped herself to one of the mathematical wonders that she thought her minions in her homeland of Edutopia would enjoy. She carefully packed her new treasure, Isometric Cuboids in her treasure chest for future use.
Isometric Cuboids
Originally uploaded by maureencrosbie
The explorer thought that this isometric drawing would challenge and extend her Edutipian disciples in the ancient knowledge of geometry and mathematics.
Scrambled Eggs! - reblogged
The explorer was asked why she began this journey by her ship's crew. She felt, that rather than spend hours storytelling about all of the mysteries bouncing around in her mind, she would read them the story she wrote in the Educator's PLN.
My brain feels like scrambled eggs! 6 months ago I didn't know what web 2.0 was. I asked my school ICT teaching and learning coordinator to set up a blog page for me and my students (I was not even sure what a blog page was) because instinctively I knew that it would be a great way for my students to communicate with each other, and for me to communicate with them in a logged, written format. My only previous exposure to blogging was due to the purchase of an iMac (you gotta love a piece of technology hardware that comes with NO instructions! I mean, I was always a 'read the instructions' kinda girl). Well, the paperless world of Apple, and online support opened me up to the world of information beyond Google Search!
My ICT coordinator pulled through though, and created a class blog for me on Sharepoint (I am still not sure what sharepoint is, but I think it is some kind of platform that the school network can support). SEE WHAT I MEAN? I AM A NOVICE, scared and excited at the same time, hungry for more, frustrated that I can't make some things work. What I can say is I am becoming an expert on determining the ease of the 'user interface'. I so wish my school would move to Apple! Anyway, I was launched into the web 2.0 world (at least within my little school, because of worries about going public with ANYTHING work or student related). I learned a little about how to create a wiki (and what a wiki actually was), how to use the blog to store documents, make announcements to the class, and share photos. Needless to say, my first foray into setting up a class web page compared to what I am doing now is like comparing the size of a grain of sand to the planet Jupiter!
Although my school is not' teaching and learning' web 2.0 savvy, they have been smart enough to set up a fully wirelessly networked system, and have removed all filters with the idea that we as teachers and students must be fully responsible and ethical with the use of the network in the school. We are not a tablet school, or a laptop school, but we have enough laptops on portable trolleys and open plan learning stations that using ICT is possible 100% of the time in 90% of the classrooms. Pretty good, if I do say so myself. And yet, the wonderful resources that have been made available are way underused. There are really only a handful of us in the school who are really ready to take the risk and lead the school into 21st century learning. And guess what, yours truly, THE NOVICE, is helping to lead the way - the Web 2.0 world is my oyster!
So why is this post titled scrambled eggs? Well, in 1 month I have acquired 80 twitter followers, and am following 175, I have 2 lists, and have been listed 6 times, I have diigoed, delicioused, facebooked,vodpoded, animoted, you-tubed, yahoo'd, g-mailed, PLN'd, classroom 2 'd, webinar'd edchatted, edteched, edublogged, wikispaced, wordpressed, linkedin, - I HAVE SO MANY ACCOUNTS I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF THEM ALL! And the problem is, that this wonderful, exciting, motivating, energizing world of social networking and professional development, and the amazing people and websites I have visited in the last month are turning my brain into SCRAMBLED EGGS!
Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, just need a little help in moving to nice little organised groups of poached eggs! Just making this post, my very first on PLN, has lightened my load. Stay tuned for more eggs to follow.....
My ICT coordinator pulled through though, and created a class blog for me on Sharepoint (I am still not sure what sharepoint is, but I think it is some kind of platform that the school network can support). SEE WHAT I MEAN? I AM A NOVICE, scared and excited at the same time, hungry for more, frustrated that I can't make some things work. What I can say is I am becoming an expert on determining the ease of the 'user interface'. I so wish my school would move to Apple! Anyway, I was launched into the web 2.0 world (at least within my little school, because of worries about going public with ANYTHING work or student related). I learned a little about how to create a wiki (and what a wiki actually was), how to use the blog to store documents, make announcements to the class, and share photos. Needless to say, my first foray into setting up a class web page compared to what I am doing now is like comparing the size of a grain of sand to the planet Jupiter!
Although my school is not' teaching and learning' web 2.0 savvy, they have been smart enough to set up a fully wirelessly networked system, and have removed all filters with the idea that we as teachers and students must be fully responsible and ethical with the use of the network in the school. We are not a tablet school, or a laptop school, but we have enough laptops on portable trolleys and open plan learning stations that using ICT is possible 100% of the time in 90% of the classrooms. Pretty good, if I do say so myself. And yet, the wonderful resources that have been made available are way underused. There are really only a handful of us in the school who are really ready to take the risk and lead the school into 21st century learning. And guess what, yours truly, THE NOVICE, is helping to lead the way - the Web 2.0 world is my oyster!
So why is this post titled scrambled eggs? Well, in 1 month I have acquired 80 twitter followers, and am following 175, I have 2 lists, and have been listed 6 times, I have diigoed, delicioused, facebooked,vodpoded, animoted, you-tubed, yahoo'd, g-mailed, PLN'd, classroom 2 'd, webinar'd edchatted, edteched, edublogged, wikispaced, wordpressed, linkedin, - I HAVE SO MANY ACCOUNTS I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF THEM ALL! And the problem is, that this wonderful, exciting, motivating, energizing world of social networking and professional development, and the amazing people and websites I have visited in the last month are turning my brain into SCRAMBLED EGGS!
Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, just need a little help in moving to nice little organised groups of poached eggs! Just making this post, my very first on PLN, has lightened my load. Stay tuned for more eggs to follow.....
In the beginning....
There was a very confused explorer! She had spent nearly a month learning about all sorts of web 2.0 tools, but they were just a big jumble in her head! She even managed to write her first blog post on the edublogger educators pln , and called it Scrambled Eggs!
But something was missing - and then she realised - her brain was a massive mind map, with no core goal. But thanks to cheap advice found in twitter and google wave, this explorer cottoned-on to a website (or should I call it a web theme) called 23 Things.
Being a math teacher, the explorer thought this was a great hook or title for a website, so she traced the idea back to its origin - the PLCMC L earning 2.0 website. And although the website started at Thing 23, she was smart enough to look at the very bottom of the post for Thing 21 (she is a math teacher after all :) ).
And so the Journey has begun. Things 1 and 2 are accomplished. And the explorer, in her journey already made some amazing personal discoveries - like HOW COOL IS Articulate as a presentation tool to accommodate differentiated teaching and learning styles.....but, best leave that sideways journey to another day!
The teacher realised that the web 2.0 world was like a candy store, and she wanted it all...NOW! But words of fellow teachers kept gnawing at her...Keep it simple, start small! And so, the explorer determined that she must stay on course on her travels.
And now.......Destination Thing 3!
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