I have not been successful at viewing the videos posted on our wiki. They take forever to load and once they begin, they play pause play pause...enough to drive me crazy. I do have a professional coming tomorrow to check things out, hopefully it will fix things and I don't have to call the internet tech people any more...
I have been successful with some other tools:
Piknik was fun to edit photos. The eagle pic above is one of the pics I worked with. If I use this in the classroom, I would definitely have to set a time limit for the kids...It is way too easy to get carried away with the different options and spend too much time here...This is actually true with all these tools! I did have trouble with making the collage. I will experiment more with that another time.
Five Stories with Flickr is also something I played with. I can easily see this being used for me as a teacher sharing steps to a lab or demo. Also, I could see students including this in their lab reports.
I have created a Diigo account and am anxious for more time to work with this. I am thrilled about the highlighting feature...how many times have I opened up a website and had to reread to find what I needed. This will be especially helpful when I continue lit searching for my capstone project. I have not played with Delicious, but I intend to in order to compare/contrast with Diigo.
Also this week, I set up Google Reader and learned how to organize files from a student's blog post, looked at a few simulations, and played with Google Earth more (addicting!). I have actually used Google Earth for an ecology class and in the classroom some. Again, I hope to learn more each time I open it!
Ok, so now I really must leave here and write my research paper for another class...or not! Exploring this class is a lot more fun!
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