http://cusher.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Sat, 02 May 2009 20:23:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/05/02/thing-twenty-two/ 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 ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/29/thing-seven-c/ 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 ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/29/thing-twenty-one/ 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.  ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/28/thing-twenty/ 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 ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/28/thing-nineteen/ I really enjoyed listening to everyone's podcasts.  I think this is a great technology tool for the classroom. Subscribe FreeAdd to my Page http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/28/thing-eighteen/ I already had ITunes installed on my computer.  I went to the Education Podcast Network and also to the PBS Podcasts.  I subscribed to some podcasts through my Google Reader and some through my ITunes.  It was really easy.  Podcasts are a great tool for everyone.  They are great for ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/27/thing-seventeen/ I love Library Thing!  I had lots of fun finding books that I have read and adding them to my Library.  I think I spent about 2 hours in this site.  That's much more than many others we have explored.  That's probably because I like to read so much.  It was ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/thing-sixteen/ Delicious is a great way to organize your websites and colloborate with others by sharing the websites you have found.  At the same time, you have access to all the great websites that others have found and tagged.  Delicious is also great to utilize if you travel around and are ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/thing-fifteen/ Friday Five-Tools for Teachers I love Infinite Thinking Machine.  Almost everything that I read from them is useful.  This blog was posted on April 4th, but I thought it was timely anytime. Google Tasks  Allows you to create tasks in your GMail account and also convert emails into tasks.  Then, you can ... http://cusher.edublogs.org/2009/04/22/thing-seven-b-session-6-fourteen-a/