I managed to accomplish quite a bit today and I am quite excited to share it all with you. Janis, Jodie and I (all in this course) met for a few hours this afternoon and worked on some of the outcomes/challenges Glen has given us as well as figuring out how to make our lives more technologically smooth. We have set up iGoogle homepages. There are all sorts of widgets that we can add to personalize our homepages and it also indicates when we have something new in our Google mail. I thought it was slick.
Janis also helped me out with delicious. I finally have it figured out and now I need to spend a bit of time looking for appropriate links to add that would be relevant to this course.
I have started a Bloglines account. I plan to move all the students over to it and delete them from my sidebar. I realize there are only a few weeks left in the course but I am hoping we will continue to post pertinent information to our blogs long after to course has finished.
Next I signed up for a Flickr account. I uploaded a picture to see if I could add it under Flickr on my sidebar, but I am not doing something right. I will continue trying to play with that. I have removed Flickr from my sidebar for now because I didn’t want their ramdom pictures to be displayed.
We all took a look at flixn. Flixn is a program where you can record video that can be attached to email, blogs etc. I can see attaching a short video to my class blog informing my students of something. My students can also easily record a short video of themselves.
Last, but not least we tried out Yugma. We were not successful. We were connected to each other but did not have video or audio. I’ll have to attempt that one again.
Oh ya, I also tried out a couple of cars. I really liked the sporty red one vrs the more muted gray/blue one. Heck of a way to pick a vehicle!
I have also been working on my report cards which are due soon. I am the queen of procrastinating so having things to do for this course is definitely not helping. Oh, well it will all get done in due time.
I read your blog. You’ve accomplished a lot!
Hi Nicole,
I use a few of the apps you mentioned above
1-flickr: you have the option to rotate you photos only in your sidebar, or a combo of yours and your contacts.
2-yugma: they have a teleconferencing line for audio. they also just started a partnership with skype, if you prefer to use that, instead.
hope that helps.
Nicole – bloglines and iGoogle are handy tools! FlickR is neat for sharing videos and as a social networking tools. And no matter how you dice it…working on report cards are the furthest thing from fun!!!!
Thanks for the new tools. All of sudden there seems to be many ways to create and share video, audio, pictures, whatever. I wonder if iGoogle is going to get into trouble with Apple and get an iLawsuit.
That iGoogle stuff is so cool, I did not even know that existed. It is a great way to keep track of all the different features of Google. I am definitely going to start using that.
Hi Nicole, the iGoogle stuff is new to me also. Thank you. I don’t know how I’m ever going to have time to try all this stuff.
Wow… That was alot. So Flixn attaches videos to emails and blogs? I will most certainly have to check this out.
Thanx…
Doesn’t it feel great to accomplish what you set out? I will have to give iGoogle a try also. I have not been exposed to that tool before. The obstacle so many of us have is finding the time to put into practice all of the tools we are learning about. Yugma has been causing me some trouble as well. Hopefully, we both will have success with it, as these types of issues are not normal for the program.
Sounds like a very productive day. I am still having problems with my Yugma account also. Still reporting errors to the point I have to shut down my computer. I don’t know if I will get it to work.