I personally don’t like everyone knowing all of my business.  I value my privacy and don’t have a need for everyone to know everything about me and my family.  Two friends of mine have a facebook and they love it.  We recently went to the beach.  I had my laptop there and they were on my [...]

I went by to my old standby Infinite Thinking Machine.  I found an article that caught my attention because it was about cellphones in education.  Cellphones in Education  One of the links I focused on was Liz Korb’s.  She thought the cell phone could be the “Swiss army knife of 21st century digital learning tools”.  This is because [...]

My first impression of Pageflakes was TOO BUSY and the page takes a long time to load.  However, after studying all of the information coming to me, rather than me going out to find the information, I liked Page Flakes better and better.  It was very easy to move, edit, and add the various flakes.  I think students [...]

I LOVE Google Docs!  I can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t use it.  Bill Gates has probably blocked the site for many.  Just kidding!  Google Docs is a great solution to our teacher’s overloaded email accounts with too many attachments, also helpful to keep from having duplicates of the same documents.  My husband doesn’t have Office [...]

I spent much more time exploring these two sites than I thought I would. I’m glad I went to YouTube first, because if I had gone to TeacherTube first, I probably would never have gotten to YouTube. I felt like TeacherTube was a education filtered version of YouTube (which it is). I was overwhelmed by [...]