http://borowski.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:35:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have to admit that I am a total Facebook addict! I joined this summer... invited by another friend who joined because it was her 20th high school reunion and they had a facebook group. Well, it was my 20th high school reunion too, and I reconnected with ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-22-social-networking/ This is really such a cool tool. I began by searching for one of my favorite books, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, and found that there is was a book club in Pickens, SC discussing this book. As a matter of fact, many of the ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-16-library-thing/ I love this cool- it will certainly be helpful in my work. My delicious page includes sites that I use in preparation for teacher trainings, and I look forward to adding more! I particularly liked copying text so that it automatically pastes into the Description field. http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-15-delicious/ Another post from one of the forum feeds on Promethean Planet alerted readers to the contest "webquest" going on now through January 7th. Perfect timing because I'm teaching a class on Promethean Planet and ACTIVvotes tomorrow, so we'll be doing the Planet Quest contest at the end and maybe ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-7c/ Wow! I definitely see this being a great solution for high school research projects and will definitely share with the high school media folks (they probably already know about it though!). The Darfur pageflake was amazing. I have to say that after working all day on ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-21-pageflakes/ I will definitely be using these tools more! This is a great way for teachers to share lesson plans, for students to create a group slideshow, and for teachers, parents and students to all help plan for a pending field study (particularly overnight field trips!). My favorite theme ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-20-google-docs/ There are so many great videos on YouTube... the frustrating thing is when a teacher finds an EXCELLENT video when she's planning her lesson at home, but then gets to school and finds out that YouTube is blocked (surprisingly, not everyone is aware of this!). This actually just happened ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-19-youtube-video/ I had to choose Radio Willow Web (found on EPN) for a discovery task because I fell in love (in a purely digital sense) with the students' original teacher at Willow Elementary in Omaha, NE--- Tony Vincent--- at GAETC in November! I think I went to every session he ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-17-podcasts/ I tried mixbook.com and the best thing about it was the ability to share the book with the world or with only friends. I've made several photo books using Shutterfly and iPhoto, but this was the first book that could be published on the internet- a cool tool! ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-14-tool-review/ I think that the 5th grade wiki from Woodward- Turn Homeward, Hanalee- was just about the best example of a digital collaborative student project I've seen. I just love how each group was responsible for their content, but then as I read each page, the story pieces were put ... http://borowski.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/thing-8-reflections-on-wikis/