Thing # 15

I think that this site was one of the most interesting that I have looked at. Tagging sites and having a space that is only mine has really helped me keep up with the organization of my family's computer. So far, I have tagged things to make my life easier. Next, when I have time, I would like to look for and tag sites that interest me. The only complaint that I get from home is from my son. He doesn't like the extra bar for delicious at the top of our computer. Click here for my delicious site.

Thing #7B- Reader revisited

ESL Students Writing Problems Are Mainly at Sentence Level is an article that truly relate to what I do everyday in my classroom. It is hard to take a child, any child, and teach them to be strong effective writers. It seems that the last skill that my student's learn and the hardest is writing. I like this article found In my RSS reader because I truly feel that my students miss some basics while learning English. Taking them back to the sentence level in writing and then going forward makes good sense to me.

Thing #14 part 2

I just had to do a wordle for fun. I hope you enjoy it!

Thing #14

I looked at all the sites listed and liked several of them. The one that I thought I could use was Quizlet. I am always looking for interesting ways to help my students learn vocabulary. This site gives you the ability to create flashcards. We are very concerned about teaching second language learners content vocabulary so I thought that this would be easy for me and my students.

I also like the 30 boxes site. I always need a calendar to keep me organized!

Thing #13

http://www.imagechef.com/



http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

I had a great time with the image generators. The first image was made in Image Chef. I am a soccer mom and found this cute jersey to reflect my son's team name and his number. The second image was made in Trading Card Maker. He was a ghost for Halloween last year.
I thought this made a cute card to send to relatives.

I found most of the sites I tried quite easy to manage. I did have a little problem uploading the Halloween image to my blog, but it worked out in the end.

I could see using these image generators to create student interest when using computer applications for projects. Many are simple to use and would be motivating to students. We all like to add some fun to our work andthis would be one way to do so.

Thing #12

Here is my slide show made in RockYou.com. This process was really easy. I enjoyed the experience. The pictures are from Flickr by Larry King.

Thing #11-Flickr

Monarch by Shona Leah

I found Flickr to be an interesting site. After losing a ton of family pictures on a crashed hard drive that were never burned to CD, I like the concept of being able to back up pictures and that other people can view them. In creative commons, I searched for pictures that depict the stages of development of the Monarch butterfly. I have been raising these beautiful creatures in my classroom for many years and liked the idea of locating new images to share with my students.