Love the Cat

Still love messing with the cat
Found the National Gallery App-can't find the Louvre-I really need to be 15 to use this thing!(I-pad)

I pad

I bought an ipad! Yea-but now I can not find the cool apps I found when I first explored-I know there was one for the Louvre and the National Gallery but I can't find them.
I like the ipad but it makes me feel like I know zip-well I guess I do know zip-had to email my son to tell me how to turn it off-that is pretty bad-will say if you buy one map out lots of time for your "free demo set up"-otherwise they want $$ to teach you one on one-I thought that was not too cool-that demo was really a sales pitch which again I was not happy about-so I will learn from my kids-just a heads up if you give in.

Thing11.5

Thing 11 surprised me the most-I thought I knew a lot about safety on line but I was wrong-this lesson by itself should be part of any in-service training that we do.
My favorite lesson will still be creating a voki and learning about glogster. These will def. be part of my classroom instruction.
I like learning in this manner for when I had time I could do several lessons but then other times I might start one then go back and finish it. I really like working at my own pace but also knowing that I could go to the beach on certain day and play with others. I also like having all the lesson kept online so I can go back and review what I don't remember.
Thanks for all the work you all put into this class.
Now I am off to set up my digication page for my students to use this year.
Gooder

Thing 11

This was by far the best and perhaps most important lesson. I have bookmarked many of the different links so that I may go back and refresh my understanding. This is a huge issue and one that may get worse before it gets better unless all educators and parents understand this cyberworld.
My 5 lessons would have to be 6.

1.Give credit where credit is due-don't seal-it is not fair to you or the person you took it from whether it is a report, music, or a video clip. As several of the sites said-check the fine print.

2. As Frank said on Dragnet:"Just the facts." Check up on the site or the person you are reading. Get more than one source when doing any kind of fact finding. And don't just use Wikipedia-anyone can put those facts online and they may not be true.

3.Before giving your name, address, phone number, etc. to any site look for the s after http-especially if you are buying something.Never use your full name to post. When TAEA posts art work created by students, we only use their first name-nothing else.

4. Use manners online be careful what you say and how you say it. Remember, people can interprete what is said in a way that you never intended. In an email to a parent, I though I was saying I hope you do well to my student for his tennis game but the parent read it as I hope he does well on my final. Not at all what I meant to say but the same words.

5. Spellcheck-this is my best friend since I can not spell and it checks your gramme. Even my paper this morning had a typo in their running of the Declaration of Independence-they did not capitalize United for United States of America. So spell check and read aloud to yourself before you submit. I have gone back a edited several of my posts here and I bet I still have errors.

6. Use the Internet wisely-text wisely-protect your identity.

Thing 10

I looked around second life and though I understand the basic idea of an alter ego-I would not continue to play something like this. I don't even like playing video games except for Rock Band-I do play that. I would much rather go into a different world through a really good book or a movie. Since I got netflixs, I have been watch a lot of documentaries and been exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking. I just don't see how I would ever want to do something like second life. I mean I just am not interested. Give me a book or TCM! (Tunner Classic Movies)
Now from an art viewpoint, I could see using this as a springboard for my students to create their own avatars and create an imaginary world, but I certainly would never play something like this in front of them. I guess I am just too old school for this. I do have students who do cos play and role playing games-many spend all day and all their money on re-creating their identity and I can see how that could be fun to role play all day as someone else. They keep detailed journals with photographs that they have shared with me and it looks like it means a lot to them. I know that in Japan, they take these second life games very seriously-many even going to work as the character that they are in this altered world. Don't think that would go over well with SBISD if I came to school as gooder lionheart.
I did think the concept was interesting but I just wouldn't stay with it.

Thing 9

A big advantage to using a slide share program is that it is readily available be to all. A student can't leave it at home since it is already uploaded. Students in all of your classes could quickly see what all the other students did for any given assignment. And again-that student who is home bound or ill, can look up what they missed that day.
If I had known about this and used this on a presentation I just gave, I could have saved a great deal of time and solved technical issues that I had at the hotel.
I will use this. It will also save me from having to burn copies for othere-they can just click and see what they need.

Thing 9

Ok on my first try with link #1 -I got a warning that this site was a security risk-not sure what is going on have restarted my computer and will keep on trying. This looks really interesting and a great way to prepare for a presentaion. I do want to learn more.
Anyone else getting a risk message?

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You can play with my voki by putting your mouse close it it's face-watch the eyes follow your movement. Doesn't take a lot to entertain me!

Thing 8

Could not watch or go to the first web site-Microsoft stated it could not display it and it removed it from my vision. This is about the third time I have been unable to access links in this class. Not sure why.
Jingle-am trying it but the screen print button seems much faster to me than using this.http://screencast.com/t/ZGEzNGJlMD is a map to SBMS.
I honestly don't see myself using this but it was interesting to watch-and I would use it for giving driving direction. Funny that Google maps doesn't even have my school in the right place and has Spring Forest in the Freeway!

Thing 7

Did not know that Art Works was online either check it out at http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/hulu/index.php?id=50063055

Thing 7

PBS ROCKS! I can see art 21 which is a outstanding series on current artists. I bought the entire set of all 5 seasons and use these artists in my class all the time. Had I known they were online-look how much money I could have saved.
I can see this being used a lot but a teacher would have to have a video projector or a smart board-I have a projector but elective teachers will not be given smart boards-yes I know I could use the one in the library but I don't.
Check it out for yourself http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=ART%3A21.

Thing 7

Blinkx had exactly one video on an artist and you first had to watch a TV commerical before you could see the art clip which was annoning to watch do to the overly viusal background. The story was interesting-something I could share with my students-a guy who paint portraits from life using the brush app for his ipad. http://www.blinkx.com/videos/artists is the link.
The National Archives has frozen so I need to stop and restart my computer-pior to this i couldn't get anything to play nor could I search this so forget this one.

Thing 6

Ok ya'll have given me just one more reason to want a MAC-I tried to keep and hide my green mac that I used to have in my classroom-I loved it's old school lines! But the ipad is just the coolest thing I have seen. My son has one and I spent time playing with it this week- looking at the aps. It is so easy to use, fast, and such a sharp image. I went to the online apple store and looked under aps for art and low and behold they have the Louvre collection ap and the National Gallery ap-on my son's ipad it was an awesome experience-you can type in a word like hope and it would bring up multi images of paintings that expressed hope-I was looking under Da Vinci so hope gave me 20 Madonna faces painted by him.
I did a photostory during CEDFA on a imac which brought up all kinds of tools that I do not have on my dell-one of the other art teachers there had an iphone so he took a group picture -then using his phone he changed all the colors and made all of us look very surreal. I have been allowing my students to use their camera phones for their homework assignments and I have been blow away by the quality of pictures that they have taken and altered right on their phones. Then they just email them to me and I grade it from my computer. One girl took such beautiful pictures that I printed them out on quality computer photo paper and she entered them in Jr. Vase. Both images earned her a gold medal. I see apple as leading the way to how to engage children in the classroom. I really wish we had more mac in SBISD. Guess I will go to the store and get an ipad-I really think I deserve and need one especially for visual arts.

Thing 5

Facebook is a lot of fun if you have time-we have been warned at our school against having any contacts with our students on Facebook. I can honestly see how it would work if all played by the rules, but these are kids that we are working with and they do crazy things without thinking. We have had issues with students creating fake Facebook pages pretending to be a teacher or administrator at our school. When you hide behind another identity, it is easy to say things you would never say outloud if people knew who you were.

I have joined many educational Facebook sites and have really been helped by ideas and lessons that teachers all over the world have created.

I tried the twitter today and I guess I don't get it-I am just now getting the hang of texting and I don't have a smart phone so I honestly don't see myself using this.
I can see how this would help a student who is out from school-they could get the jist of a lesson and keep up-plus they could be part of the lesson by responding.

It is a brave new world and I am trying to keep up!

thing 4

My video is not yet on Teacher Tube (Jr Vase 2010)but it was really easy to upload.
My post about it is before-my computer started acting up so I had to close.

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I just uploaded a video to Teacher Tube-I created it in animoto and posted it under fine arts-It is called Jr Vase 2010 and this is an art competion that is side by side with UIL. It is an excellent event. Students create art, answer written questions about the art work, then talk one on one with a judge about their art work. They are then rated on their art work and their interveiw. A 4 is a top gold medal winner and these images are all 4s. Team is for prek-5th grade, Jr Vase 6-8,and high school Vase 9=12. All 4s from jr Vase and HS Vase are then judged a second time and the top picks from the second round earn a regional medal. The HS regional winner then have their art work judged a third time at State Vase which has art from all over the state. From the State winners earning a 4, the very best of these 4s earn a gold seal. This year the MFA Houston is hosting the gold seal winners July 15-through mid Aug.
having computer problems-will restart.

thing 3

I played with cool iris yesterday-It will be a huge help in my classroom but I need to check to see if you can set "safe search" before I allow my students to use it. It makes the images so much easier to view.I learned about cool iris on the 10 classroom distruptions blog which I enjoyed reading. Last night I watch a show that had a college classroom using phones to take notes and find reaserch-it tied right into this blog.

I did not try Skype since I do not have a webcam but I know a lot of people who do and they all love it. This could be a great way to contact a museum that has a major show and have a docent talk to my class about it. Using a computer projector and external speakers, the images could be veiwable to the whole class. I could contact an artist who would be willing to give a video dmonstration to my class and the students could work along with the master teacher. I see this as a great tool for all subject areas. It would also be fun to interact with students in a different country.

My sister's family all use this as a way to stay in touch with her son in California.

Thing 2

I have had so much fun today-but computer issues continue to interupt my play. Lots of freezing and work lost.
Wordle is so much fun and fast, wordshift is interesting but I am not so sure I would use it. I think a core teacher would love to use this.
Glogster again was fun but it took me awhile to figure out how everything worked.
My favorite was the Voki-will def. use the Voki in my class-will also use glogster and wordle-I used wordle in a presentation this summer and everybody enjoyed using it-I like the tip about printing the screen-hadn't thought of that.
Am going to see if I remember how to add to my blog.
Does anyone know how to save this blog but awitch the whole thing over to gmail? Yahoo and my laptop do not get along and I must use yahoo to get into my blog.

Thing 1

I see this video as the wave of the future and I need to understand how all of this works to keep up with my students. I have used the power of photostory and animoto both in my classroom and at presentations. And have started but not completed a voice thread presentation.
This video is very simple-straight forward-and easy to understand. It is going to make me go back to last summer's work and reveiw the news feed-I had a lot of trouble with that part plus the fact that I did all this work in Yahoo and my lap top won't work with Yahoo-Geek can't tell me why so I switched to gmail-now this won't open in gmail-could this be like the PC Mac thing?
Last week at CEDFA, we created a short video like this with video, audio, voice over, and text-it was a lot of fun and can toghether with ease. I also observed my students this year creating computer videos in many of their classes.
Could a librarian be the teacher-they already are teachers in mu opinion and I have been fortunate to know and admire several that I have worked with