Thing 43 Online TV and Video

This was a real cool thing that I took the time to check out. I love DIY and HGTV so those are the channels that I headed for first on Hulu. I tried to do the same thing on Joost but got nowhere--don't think I will visit that one again. I will probably use Hulu many times to watch different DIY shows when I am in the mood to learn a new way of doing things or find some "cool tools".

Thing 47 - Evaluation

Well I thought I should get this evaluation done before the deadline. I will continue to "play" with the tools I haven't tried yet. This project was a rewarding experience and I wish I had had more time to devote to this project. With working 3 different jobs out of town and doing a kitchen renovation, my time has been very limited these last few months and I don't get much time to get on the computer to "explore" like I used to. I will continue to use a lot of the tools that I found helpful and hopefully be able to share and pass on some of my new knowledge. I hope this group continues to put things out there for us to access to broaden our horizons.

Thank you to all that contributed to this wonderful project.

Thing 36

This was a fun one. I could see many uses for the different tools in this "thing". I tried out most of the links and had some fun.

Thing 37 Photo Tales

I was interested in checking out this "thing" because I love taking pictures and doing something with them. First I checked out Animoto and created an account, I found the program to be too limiting for my taste and wasn't pleased with the end result. Then I tried out OneTrue Media and spent quite a long time creating a video and all the components that went with it. I was much more pleased with this program and loved the end result which I published to my blog page and sent to lots of people.
I think I will spend a lot of time checking out all of the different links in this thing. I can see a lot of use for these types of sites for teaching.

Thing 39 Digital Storytelling

Well I decided to jump ahead and pick and choose the "things" that I was interested in learning about. I chose this one because I am looking at a business my friend has started YourStoryBooksOnline.com It is about telling your story thru storybooking. Safely archiving and preserving family history, story, traditions, and culture and making and creating books to be shared and past on to generations to come. Every Body has a Story What is Yours ? She tells me.......

The first thing I checked out was VoiceThread and I thought that was kinda cool. I click on the tutorial to see what it was all about and had myself a good laugh at a couple of the examples. I don't know that it is something I would use a lot but I think it would be fun to put up a photo and then make up a story about it. My friend can do that too - and make an entire book about the picture and include hundreds of your own pictures to tell the story.

I went and checked out tiltshift.com and thought it would be neat to upload a picture and then manipulate it. I found that using the Studio 2 thru my friends website was way more easier and I can do it over and over with many many pictures on each and every page.

As an Example: See Below.. at the bottom of my blog.

Thing 30 More ways to use RSS and Delicious

Well since I didn't do the original "23" I had to go back to thing 11 to see what RSS feeds are all about and how to "get connected". I did go check out Delicious and created an account and added my "library tools" bookmarks to my account. I think it is pretty cool and will have to check it out more in depth when I have more time.

Thing 28--Customized Home Pages

Well this one was a much easier "thing" to do. I have had a my yahoo homepage for several years so I was familiar with how to customize a home page. I had also started customizing an igoogle page when I started my blog.
As I was reading through the blog instructions I decided to check out the different tools for creating a start page such as Netvibes and Pageflakes. Didn't see that they were a whole lot different in look than iGoogle and My Yahoo but I might play around with NetVibes and Pageflakes just to try something different. I then checked out the School Library Journal article. I clicked on the link to the LibraryThing page and decided to set up an account and then customize my book list. It was great fun setting up my library and I would recommend anyone trying it out. What I did was pick a select list of my favorite series authors and find their latest books as well as the earlier ones in the series and list them so I could create a "wishlist" for future reading and then request the future books from my library.
Well I created my own Blidget and stuck it onto my igoogle home page. It was very easy to do and very quick. I created a blidget of my blog page--just another way to keep things organized in one spot.