http://ppetty.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:50:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Went back to my google reader and found two interesting blogs that Cool Cat Teacher had posted.  In "Do What You Can.  Share What You Can", [http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2009/03/do-what-you-can-share-what-you-can.html] she gives some encouraging adages that I've heard, like her, from the older, wiser women and men in my life (mom, dad, grandparents...)  Basically ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/26/thing-7c/ All I can say is,  "YES!  YES! YES! I'm FINALLY finished!"  Web 2.0 has been a real challenge for me.  I am the type learner who needs to see things demonstrated AND then have someone help me when I'm stuck as I work through it myself.    When help videos wouldn't ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/23/thing-23-part-2/ After visiting Classroom 2.0 and Ning.com, I honestly have to say that I was quite impressed with what I saw on Classroom 2.0.  I particularly enjoyed watching some of the videos that were posted/embedded.  I watched one by William Lambert in which he showed how to use peg words to ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/22/thing-22/ Pageflakes seemed to me to be a lot like Facebook or Myspace in a way (the layout and interactibility), only this is a site that I think parents would see as a "professional" place that has a very different expectation that facebook or myspace.  Parents would like pageflakes because it is one ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/21/thing-21/ I use Microsoft Word documents and Power Point Presentations nearly every day, and I have enjoyed adding new things like more images from flickr.com as well as animations, etc.   I honestly found googledocs to be rather frustrating and slow.  I felt that I had fewer options for adding the "fun" ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/16/thing-20/ A HUGE thanks to Arlie who showed me how to embed videos in my posts!  How exciting when I view my own posts and actually find the videos will play like they're supposed to!  :0) http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/14/things-18-and-19-embedding-links-to-videos/ I have seen videos on YouTube before, but this was the first time I'd been introduced to Teacher Tube.  I see both having lots of application in the classroom.  First, teachers can find interesting ways to teach such things as idioms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjlpQqbW8uo&feature=PlayList&p=3A5432110505D63E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15), allow students to see new ideas for creating ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/14/thing-19/ Thing 18 My First Podcast http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/13/thing-18-my-first-podcast/ I have a podcast somewhere on podOmatic.com; however, I have NO idea how to get it to Gcast.  Does anyone have any SIMPLE, easy-to-follow directions to help with this?  I've listend and/or watched every help link available in learning 2.0, and I'm stuck! I embedded the podcast correctly into the next ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/13/thing-18/ I previewed, or at least I attempted to preview, several different podcasts from PBS podcasts, Learn Out Loud Podcasts, and Education Podcast Network.  PBS podcasts were mostly for younger children, but at least I know that most of the information would be suitable for the classroom.  Learn Out Loud seemed ... http://ppetty.edublogs.org/2009/03/13/thing-17/