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English 10 Literature Wiki » Mrs. M Literature Cirlce

Week 7 Thing 16 wikis

First of all, when wikipedia first came out, I was told to be cautious and to tell our students not to pull any research from the site. Anyone can go on this site and change the information, thus making wikipedia an unreliable site.

I do however like the site for networking with my students. For example, I discovered that I can create a literature circle and then keep in contact with my students by compiling, and sharing through blogging.

Thing 15 Week 6 Future of Libraries

I agree with Rick Anderson's "Away from the Icebergs", when he states that the idea of library collection must be seen differently.I'm sure librarians need to buy a new set of encyclopedias to replace the outdated ones but should spend that money to subscribe to an online encyclopedia.Its funny, just the other day when my husband and I were cleaning out our garage,I found a set and gave them to our local goodwill and thought about why I had kept them for so long (28) years, when I knew I would never open them again. I have been using the Internet to look up information. Even my students would rather look for the information online.

Week 6 Thing 14

I really didnt notice anything different from technorati and blogger except I like the layout in bogger better and its easier to navigate and upload items. I had a tough time on this one....

I searched the movie engine and since I was intresting in going to a movie, I read some of the reviews from other bloggers. It was very helpful in making my decsion. I decided to take the kids to see E- Robot. Oh well, back to Technorati, everytime I tried to save a blog to my favorites, it kicked back to the log in page. I dont know how many times I tried to log in, and it still kept taking me back. UUUUHHHHHH!

Week 6 Thing 13--Del.icio.us

I've never heard of Del.icio.us before, but I've seen the word in Picasa and myspace when I uploaded pictures. I did though relate it to tagging. After learning about it I now know that Del.icio.us allows me to share my bookmarks with others.I have added the badge to my bl.og

Week 5 Thing 12 My Rollyo

I created a search engine with Rollyo( for my English class and for personal use) This was an actually easy procedure and I really love it. I will definitely use this page; I will also show my students how to create one for their research projects, I know that it will come in handy in my class.

Select Search Engine...Parenting SitesStef's RollyoSearch The Web

Powered by Rollyo

Week 5 Thing 11

Well, I wanted to learn how to play around with all my photos that I have on my cd. I wanted a website that helps me upload and import my pics. So I went on the Web 2.0 SEOmoz's top sites and I found one under the photo and digital image category. In 1st place was flicker, but since I already played around with that website, I used the site that came in 3rd place, which was Picasa. All I did was pop my pic cd in my computer and then the rest was easy. Here are some of my pics....

Week 5 Thing 10 image generator

Well, here it is, my image generator. I followed another blogger's advice and went to ImageChef.com and found one of my favorite poems by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.... How appropriate for an English Teacher. I saved this image to my pictures as well and will upload it to my homework page next year.

Week 4 thing 8 and 9

Today I learned about Rss Feeds ( Really Simple Syndication ) and bloglines. I decided to do some of the discovery exercises and after taking the tutorial I created a free online account and then added three important feeds (thing 9)or websites that I can easily access anytime I want. The three I use a lot in the classroom are: Dictionary.com- word of the day
United Streaming Video
Channel One.com- today's issues that affect teenagers

I used Topix.net to search for the feeds I wanted. I found Syndic8.com easier though and make sure you click on the (feeds) Icon at the top. This will make things easier.

I will go back there later and add more feeds to my blogline account.

Oh and to anyone having trouble adding RSS feeds to your bloglines, there is a good tutorial on youtube.com

Happy feeding!

Thing 7 Week 3

Technology speaking, I did learn from my husband and through the flicker website how to upload my wedding pictures and save them so others can see them. It was easier than I thought it would be. All I had to do was save all my wedding pictures on my computer and then upload them to flicker. I also browsed a picture of my nephew off of myspace and here he is...

I also just received a mp3 player and learned how to download and drag music into my mp3 form Rhapsody.com. It was so easy and fun.

Week 3 Thing 6

Well I created my mash-up a month ago today;however, my Internet was down. I won't say what Internet company I'm with but let's just say, I always have problems. So let's continue and see how much I can catch up.

When I created my mash-up, I created a movie poster for the new movie coming up based on the book Twilight. It was fun creating it.
I even figured out that I could created my own English Teacher trading card. It was neat. I will definitely use flicker next year to have the students create movie posters for every novel and AR they read.

Here is my movie poster from fliker