Thing 6: RSS and Newsreaders

I am not to sure about this whole RSS Newsreaders. I opened an account, added some newsfeed. It was actually easy to manage, I was able to add Learning 2.0 blog feed as Dr. Wilson suggested on the blog assignment. I will be adding more things later. I wanted to make sure I would be able to do it. I have to browse a little longer to make this page more personal.
As for now I think I can have my bloglines for personal use. I have no idea on how to use this with my kindergarteners. Any suggestion?

Thing 10: Online Productivity Tools

I had a great time exploring ZOHO. I created a sample document for me to practice and learn, please feel free to look at it on ZOHO Writer.
I was amazed by the endless features that Zoho offers to create documents, to collaborate online, and to share.
After working on Thing 10 of my "16 Things" I can say:
"I Know That I Know Nothing". Socrates.
But I also know that I can expand my learning as much as I am willing to try....after all the sky is the limit.
I will use Zoho writer for personal purposes.

Thing 9: Play with Wiki's

I spent a great amount of time browsing different wikis. I landed on PikiWiki . It has a link to read about 10 things that can be done so I decided to explore a little further. The site it's mosltly about documenting events with pictures and sharing them online with relatives and friends. The creator of a  documents have the option to allow other people to make changes and/or to add comments on the pages, the creator can also block the option for editing. I created "My first page" a document with pictures just to see how it works. I thought I would use PiKiWiKi with my students to document their work  and share it with their parents, and with my colleagues.

Thing 8: Wiki's

I browsed lots of wikis to have a better understanding of what a wiki is, at this point I think wiki is a never ending thing, so I stopped at this amazing Books Lovers Wiki. This wiki contains books reviews for all ages and personal interests. Click on the Pages & Files tab and you will be able to access your favorite category. There are audio books that can be uploaded to be listened on personal devices, or used in classroom.  I will definitely use TumbleBooks-eBooks for Kids in my classroom. Several times is hard to find a copy of a book on the school library, with TumbleBooks I will be a click away to access an enormous digital library.

Thing 7: Image Generators

I finally solved this mistery! I was always wondering, how do people make these colorful word clouds? I have my own now. In kindergarten I would use Wordle to create "word clouds" with my students to write a poem about their families, about friendship, about a favorite toy, and also to make greeting cards for mother day. I would also use it in science to write about each one of the five senses, or the life cycle of butterflies.

The time I spent "playing" with Voki was definitely worth. I have something new and fun to create with my students. I was thinking they can create a story like Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle. My students can make their own "character", then put them together as a class' story.

BigHugeLabs is fun and I really think my kindergarteners will be amazed creating their own puzzles and stamps.

I was asked by one of my district's Tech leaders to consider teaching a workshop. Wow! that's huge for me. I have to practice more in order to be able to teach, but I know I can do it!

Thing 5: Flickr Badge

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I took a tour around Flickr. Finding groups is fun, I typed “Chile” and found lots of groups and beautiful pictures of my motherland. At this time I don’t think I want to join a group or create one, but it’s something I’ll consider doing later. I think I’ve spent too much time now browsing different and endless ways to create cool stuff on Flickr. One that really caught my attention is Flickr Flash Badge, I decided to create one with my own pictures and I’m very pleased with the results.

Thing 4: Flickr

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I had fun opening a Flickr account. I enjoyed all the features that are now available, it seems endless. I spent a great amount of time clicking and learning about the different tabs. I decided to create a slide show with some pictures from my summer trip to France. Uploading pictures was not a problem, the problem was to chose which pictures I wanted to display, then after that I was a click away from creating the slide show, the result is here. One feature that realy amazed me was the map tab. Most of my pictures were automatically located on the map because they were taken with our cell phones. The pictures we took with the camera I had to manually drag them to the location they were taken, still it is simply amazing. When I look my photostream I'm able to see each picture's information, love it!