Bookr, Dan O.... couldn't help myself...

Bookr. Another one of those free products that makes me wonder over and over again...who are these people and when do they have all of this free time to come up with these cool tools... for FREE??? Whomever they are...I LOVE them. I could see using Bookr's book format instead of powerpoint or photostory. I have to confess, though. I "cheated" and clicked on the index menu on the right so I didn't have to manually turn the pages. That option would thrill younger audiences, I'm sure. I noticed that pim pam pum takes donatons - I hope they get some $$$ so they can keep creating cool tools like this one!

Starship Log 11.5: Thing 2, Wordle

Wordle is soooo easy to use! I used the text from The Preamble and edited the color palette (red, white and blue, of course!) and played with the alignment to make something really cool. You can generate top-notch, high-art products so quickly. LOVE it. This could replace the old-fashioned "cut up a magazine and make a collage of who you are" project that I still see assigned every year. I remember reading about different learning styles and the "artsy" type of person could use this format to study key concepts or vocabulary. VERY cool.

11.5: Thing 1

I've watched this video so many times now - and we really are all students of connectivism. It's where we are all going - not just students. Now that we have opened up FB and MS, what I want to see actually happen is that students really do post their research findngs to ther FB account for their use or for collaboraton with their team members. They're not going to automatically do that since they don't see the potential yet - they still think of FB as their social pipeline, their lifeline actually. It's going to take librarians teaching teachers how to use FB - and this forum is going to go a long way in dong that. I hope.

SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER

Love it love it love it. And I'm back on the web 2.0 train so...WOOOWOOO, ALL ABOARD!!! I'll try to tear myself away from the yardwork and the really long list of things I want to accomplish in my household in the next couple of weeks to post and ponder and ride the web train!