Lots of learning this week! I've always wondered what all the fuss was about fickr. I'd read about it but due to our Nazi filter at school, I had to remember to get on at home. Without any guidance, all it looked like to me was just another online photo site. Was I wrong! There are so many cool tools. I love the trading card program and can't wait to tell my teachers about it. I know my learning support teachers will love it. I just returned to school for a tech camp and found that flickr is accessible! I can't wait to share it. I don't know if the students can access it because I was told the teachers computers have more web access than the kids but that might be OK. I did come across a few pictures that wouldn't be at all appropriate as well as a link to "girls of flicker" among the third party sites. That's just 1% of the site though. As far as non-educational uses go, I had fun playing Flictionary and Palette Generator is really cool for scrapbooking or decorating.
I really love this class for so many reasons. The main reason is that with so much going on at work and with life, I don't always get/take the time to follow up on everything I read about. I'm an intelligent woman but terms like "mashup" would throw me because I didn't have the time to figure out what it meant. This class is helping me to realize that all I need to do is take the time, sit down, and actively learn and I'll have no problem. With what I learned this morning at tech camp and a little peace and quiet, I was able to create hyper-links in my text!
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