http://jrlevine.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:24:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have enjoyed this course and have learned an incredible amount in a short period of time. Much of it is overflowing in my brain right now. But, now that I know the basics about how to do these 22 things I can now spend some time polishing up some ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/28/thing-23-final-reflections/ It took a while to get started on Thing 21, because two days in a row when I tried to access the teacher edition of pageflakes it was down when I had my window of opportunity/free time. But, I finally got signed in and got to explore. Wow! What a neat ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/27/thing-21-pageflakes-another-concept-i-had-never-heard-of-before/ I did not realize that podcasting could be so easy.  Of course, to make it really interesting, I am sure there is a lot you can do to jazz up the podcast with music, etc.  Recording the actual podcast was the easy part. I found the experience not quite so ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/26/thing-18-wow-my-first-podcast/ Wow-Classroom 2.0 is yet another resource that one can learn from and go to to share ideas with other educators. This is taking listserves to a whole new level.  As I explored Classroom 2.0 I found some interesting discussions going on related to libraries. This would definitely be a good ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/23/thing-22-classroom-2-0-and-libraries/ I think RSS feeds are a great idea. I know I should be checking mine every day, but by the time I get through my home emails, meals with the family, working 3 jobs, etc. there is not much time left over for browsing through RSS feeds. I am going ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/19/thing-7c-google-readers-are-great-in-theory/ Google Docs is a great concept. It worked very well when we used it at Epstein last year. It did not work as well when I tried to use it to work on my Day School Sukkot Service. Needed feedback from my co-collaborators right away and emailed the letter via ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/16/thing-20-collaborating-with-googledocs/ I had seen a few You Tube videos before this course, but never had done much searching. It is absolutely incredible how many videos are available via YouTube. The problem is that there is a very wide spectrum in the quality of those videos. The ratings did help to eliminate ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/03/thing-19-you-tube-and-teacher-tube-reflections/ Podcasting has been around already for a while and I am really excited to finally learn the fundamentals so I can get started using this great tool.  I previewed several of the children's podcasts. It is exciting to see students embracing this technology and flying with it. I listened to ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/08/02/thing-17-podcasting-101/ As a librarian I found Library Thing fun to explore. It was very addictive, so I had to set a time limit.  If I had more time, I could see getting really hooked on spending time on Library Thing, inputting my collection at home, and interacting with other library members. ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/07/27/thing-16-library-thing-musings/ Wow-every day brings new adventures! I had heard of "Delicious" but had never used it before today. It is definitely very helpful to now have a way to sort my bookmarks by subjects/tags to have better access to them. It is also great that these bookmarks are online and I can ... http://jrlevine.edublogs.org/2009/07/20/thing-15-social-bookmarking-with-delicious-reflections/