Thing 7

Flickr is a great resource for sharing pictures with the class. In the past I have had students do presentations of their travels to Spanish-speaking countries or a cultural festivity they participated in. It would have been a lot easier to have them create an account and upload them on their own time. Then login from school to view them on the TV in class. Instead of me downloading and resizing the pictures to put in a powerpoint presentation.

The important part is making sure they understand the ramifications of publishing someone else's picture on public website. Students frequently think that if it is on the internet it is free for the taking.

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J. Wells

Thing 6

This was easy! I have Photobucket and Shutterfly accounts and a website of my kids pics with Coppermine Gallery, so I've done this kind of thing before. I did like the Flickrcc page with all the non- copyrighted pics to download. Something I did not pay attention to when I downloaded my first pic off the site. For our personal photos we have our own server at home to download them onto for safe keeping. My husband is a programmer and owns a data center, so it just made sense to do this on our own. We also enjoy perusing the photos on our 120 inch screen with our Playstation 3. My son loves seeing giant pics of himself.

There are so many pics to choose from I could spend days looking at them. I picked the panda because I was recently at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and got to see them up close for the first time. They were so cute! I could have watched them for hours. This is the baby Tai Shan, who is 4 years old now.

Thing 5

I see now that I was trying to do Thing 4 and 5 simultaneously :) After watching the 3 subscribing to blogs video clips I realized I had figured out 2 of the methods on my own. The bookmarklet one was the one I had to watcht he video to complete. And, of course it was the easiest! Well, at least I took a few moments to find some interesting personal blogs.

Thing 4

Ok, after a few episodes of trial and error (and the 'disappearing folder' plight) I finally added folders and subscribed to some blogs! I think my problem was too many interruptions from wee ones (I needed to be in full concentration mode) and trying to click on the RSS feed link on the blog sites but wasn't sure what to do after that. It didn't help that I watched the video while at Panera, without wee ones, but couldn't hear it. I'm typically a 'click and see what happens' person when it comes to technology. So it just took longer than I had anticipated.

Now if only I had more time to read the blogs I subscribed too :)