Thing #7b

Why do things make it into the news? When this came into my Google Reader I thought it was crazy. Aren't there things happening in the world that are more important than this? Didn't we just have a very important election? I know that these things are reported also but it is a strange world we live in.

Then I read a post by TeacherDude that I thought was funny. As a male in a mostly female occupation it is apparent almost daily the differences between us. Read it and enjoy!

Thing #14

My wife has been talking about Wordle for a while now. Since it was on this list, I decided to look at it. I saw that it had a place to put in a web site, so I found one about the Cowboys and tried it out. I also found where you can change the color and the layout. I thought this might be a good thing to do with my geography classes. they could find words that described the country we are studying.

I also looked at PollDaddy and thought it was easy to use. It would be good to be able to have students make up their own surveys and see the results. I used to teach math and I know it would help students to see a graph created by the computer for them.

Thing #13

I used ImageChef to make this license plate. This is the name of the football team that I coach. I will show this site to my daughter because she is always on the computer working on her Myspace. I think she would like this, too. I am not sure how I would use this in my classroom, but maybe someone has some ideas to share with me.

Thing #11

I decided to look up pictures on Japan. I teach World Geography and it is always good for the students to see actual pictures from the area. Flickr would be a site they could use to make a presentation over the country we are studying. This picture is of Mount Fuji and it was taken by Samurai Shiatsu.

Thing #10

Creative Commons is a way to give permission to people so that they can use your pictures. It is like copyright in a way and is confusing to understand. It is good to know that I won't be in trouble for using these pictures from the internet.

Thing #12 - Animoto

Thing #12

These are the credits for the pictures from Flickr that I used to make the slideshow. It was easy except for the linking of all the pictures. That was time consuming.

Sunrise in Odawara, Japan by shinnygogo
Red in Japan Mosaic by Oyvind Solstad
Japan Temple Lanterns by Frisko Dude
Japan through photomatix #14 by patsOn
Goth kid with contacts by LeeLeFever
The Inner Sanctum of a Japanese Teahouse by Okinawa Soba
Toy Train of Japan by El Fotopakismo
Katsura imperial villa 京都 日本 Kyoto-Japan jul/2006 by Freakland
Port of Kobe, Japan by sachman75
Japan Night Time - With Lightings on Road by amar v vora
Mount Fuji, Japan by Samurai Shiatsu
Three Priests and One Umbrella by Okinawa Soba