Emerging Technologies III

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Hello!! For my third emerging technology i used mixbook! I just wasted my whole day on it; i love it! Essentially Mixbook is an online scrapbooking website. The nice thing is though is that Mixbook is free to join and to share with people online. The site is not completely cost free. You can actually have the scrapbook that you have made, created and sent to you. Pretty cool! Depending on the size of the book you choose and such the price differs. I think for the average size its like $13.99 or maybe 12, which isn't a bad price for the amazing stuff you create with this site. So i created my own mixbook account. The first thing you do is choose the free account, then you will get started. The first order of business to be done when making a scrapbook is choosing a theme. It is soo nice! They have themes from all four seasons to weddings, school, graduation, baby books, holidays, and colored themes. There so many more specific choices than what I'm listing. What is so nice about choosing a theme is that someone already created a template for you. They chose the back round, layout, text boxes, and stickers. This makes it incredibly easy for newcomers like me to use mixbook. You'll notice once you start editing your book you can change all the original formatting that template had. For example, if you wanted a pink back round on a certain page instead of the blue that came with the theme selection, you can easily change it. I chose the spring theme because the book was so pretty and it kind of made sense haha. Well i started finding pictures online, they didn't download right, blah blah long story short.. I ended up making a scrapbook about me :). You can upload pictures on to mixbook very simply. They walk you through the directions and give you a options of taking pics stored on your computer, or from facebook, myspace, photobucket, sites like that. Once your photos are uploaded they generously give you the options of ordering your pics by the date taken, date uploaded, and another. It made my job so easy! My book is in chronological order because mixbook did it for me! Anyways you just drag and drop your pictures from the sidebar to whatever pages. If you want to have more pics than that page offers you can go to the layout tab and choose, no pics, one pics, 2-3 and so on, and they will provide different layouts to choose from. Also, this is where i had TROUBLE. To add a textbook, you click on layout and it is the yellow button at the top, add text box. It took me forever to find that. The next tab is back round. Then finally are the stickers. This includes borders, stickers anything to decorate. Not only do you get the stickers from that theme but if you're looking for something specific you can add stickers from other theme books. You can also upload your own. When you are finished creating you click publish. That's where you can order a physical copy of your book or click to share online. You can choose your privacy settings of who you want to view your book. Next your profile will show up and list all the books you've created; you can create more than one. At the bottom is a share button where you can upload your mixbook to facebook, myspace, blogger, etc. This site is great for students to. Like google docs, you can add people to your account as editors and many individuals can work on one project. Mixbook saves the working hand a lot of time! Once i created a scrapbook for a friends birthday, it took me a whole weekend. I did more today than i did that whole weekend. All your photos are right here. No printing, cutting, pasting, and glue mess. It's also nice because distant family and friends can see what you have been up to conveniently. You don't have to wait until Christmas to show them pictures from Halloween. I loved this site. I'm definitely keeping the account i created because i love doing projects like this. I would strongly encourage watching a video tutorial to learn, and creating an account! It's very practical. I hope you enjoy my mixbook!

P.s. the site is www.mixbook.com ... GO CREATE!

Emerging Technologies II

I decided to Viewbook to display my pictures because it had a longer free trial than all the others haha :) Holy cow i just made a connection... i bet there's some relation between viewbook and facebook! Viewbook is used to create your own webpage that displays photos that you upload. You create albums on your webpages with the photos uploaded. THen you can make comments or captions for the photos. With your website you can create multiple separate pages. One option is the colletion layout where you can upload likee 8 albums onto one site. Then you have a text layout where you can chose one specific picture and tell a story about what happpened. The last is an album page, where you can display one album you create and thumbnails runs a top the top of the page. You can personalize viewbook by adding your titles and changing colors. The only down side that i see is the monthly payment. I would love this website to kepp in touch with long distance family and friends. It is also private. You chose who wants to see unlike facebook. I would lover for you guys to take a look a mine though :)

When i created my viewbook first i just started messing around on my own and noticed i didn't know what in the heck i was doing. Luckily the provide video tutorials to instruct you through the basics of viewbook. They have other tutorials for all the bells and whistles. When you are uploading photos i would recommend doing a few at a time, or doing them all at once and while you work on something else because it takes a long while for them to load! I also recommend changing the color and making the page your own. They allow you to change from all different shades which can give insight to who you are. Also if you are uploading a single album i would chose the album only site. I had a single album to upload but i chose the collection site because i didn't know what i was doing haha. I hope you check out viewbook and share it with your friends because its a great site!

my site link won't show up! but here's my site.. http://reasollm.viewbook.com/

RSS feeds

RSS - Rad SiteS

I have really been enjoying the assignments. I am learning how to do so much! I think this module on RSS feeds will be the one i use most. It's one of those things were I've sees]n the RSS symbol on tons of websites but never known what it was. Nor have i ever really cared, until now. I just think it's phenomenal. I would try to keep all of the same 10 sites i ever go to in the panel on the top of the webpage. Then i couldn't seen them, and it just didn't work.
I have new obsession about every three to six months or so. Right now i am obsessed with going green! I am just fascinated at all the ways to recycle and conserve energy. I just subscribed to the Sierra Club! so excited :) Two of my Rss Feeds that i saved are from thedailygreen.com, which has just has facts, tips, news, and ideas all about going green. My other feed that i saved is E! Entertainment News Online. Yes i am such a celeb gossip junky. I like this because it just tells me the three latest stories right there on my igoogle page, and i don't have to go to the actual website to search through things i have read a hundred times. I have the the latest technology page. And for my education site i put teachertube, which i actually found through searching through classmates deliciious accounts. I totally forgot about that site, but i love it!
When i created my igoogle page it gave me a choice of things i wanted on my homepage. So i clicked social networking, jokes, music, movies, news, and some other stuff. Then all of these great sites are automatically on my page. I seriously love this and have saved it has my homepage on my computer. I can be on facebook while i'm on this page and checking the weather, or looking at the latest movie ratings. LOVE IT! I would definitely recommend making one!

Delicious!

Here's the sites i found. Hopefully they are helpful to you too! http://delicious.com/rsollman

Emerging Technologies- Podcasting

I have to admit before i started this assignment i really had no idea what a podcast was. I have heard people mention them and i have seen them available on the itunes store. Little did i know i wasn't as clueless as I thought. After doing some research i realized that i created a podcast before, in fact lots of them! I just had no idea that's what i was doing, or that's what they were called. So if anyone is as clueless as i am, i have found some pretty good information to help us out! A podcast is a collection of individual audio episodes typically recorded and edited on a computer and then uploaded to a web server. The name pod casting actually originated from two words. The "pod" of name came from the most popular media device, the ipod. The "cast" part came from the word broadcast. That also helps us define a podcast. One of the main reasons the podcast is becoming so popular is that it is so easily accessible. Anyone can make a podcast! The only materials needed are a computer, a microphone, and software. The software, audacity is most commonly used, can be downloaded free on the internet. Leo Laporte also described podcasting as "TiVo for the radio". Podcasts are very convenient and adapt to our lifestyles. We can download a podcast and listen to it whenever we want, or record whenever we want. Most people think that you have to have an ipod to listen to a podcast. Thats not true you can listen to them right on your computer. Earlier when i defined a podcast it said they were "individual AUDIO episodes". While that is true technology is already advancing. Now there are video podcasts, and enhanced podcast. An enhanced podcast simply has pictures to go along with the audio.
How it works >



One might be wondering, as i did, how does all this podcast technology relate to education? The first and most important relationship of the podcast is with the children. Education is always trying to keep up with developing technology. Sometimes it seems like the kids know more about it than the teachers. Instead of fighting it, embracing the podcast into education has accounted for an unmeasurable amounts of success and improvement. Podcasting can be used for lessons plans for an unexpected absence, announcements or weekly news, advice on homework. They are also a great and more efficient way to implement class projects. The audio podcast can be used to conduct an interview. In the video podcast students can use props and costumes to portray a specific decade in history, for example. Embracing the students' love of technology is motivation to the. Embracing technology makes teaching flow a lot easier. It is not just children who know about these podcast. Surprisingly a lot of adults do too. This pie graph gives us an idea of the different age groups using podcasts.



I experienced podcasting in two of my classes in high school and didn't even know it! These were my experiences and also great ways to use podcasting in the classroom. My first class to use podcasting was my spanish class. We started about 3 years ago going to the computer lab and doing activities with audacity (the podcast software). In our class our prompts were in our textbook. One might say get with a partner and have a conversation in spanish and follow such and such guidelines. We would then have to record ourselves, save it as an Mp3 file, and our teacher would get on a listen to them. She would be able to grade us and make sure we were participating. It was also a great way to just practice speaking spanish. The second way I interacted with podcasting was my senior year in Chamber Choir (concert choir). We were required to log two hours of practice outside of school each week. Some of the songs were quite difficult. Our teacher was able to create podcast and post them online of the songs, along with individual parts so that we could practice.
This is an example of a video podcast.


For more research you can go to youtube where they have some great videos by respected and trusted people. I used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQFKNcdCdLM by Jason Rhode and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExkMeQfuLGc&feature=related by Colette Cassinell

About Me

My name is Rebecca. I am a freshmen at IUPUI preparing to become an elementary teacher! I love being around kids; it keeps me young at heart! Creating this blog reminded me a lot of what myspace was like when it first came out. A lot of it is personalizing it ourselves that makes it interesting and individualized. Some tips I would give are to personalize it. One way is the colors you can use for the back round and font. I also found, just as with myspace, different online sites where we can choose from multiple designed templates besides the ones provided for us from blogger. Some of the ones i came across had themes such as flowers, traveling, a notebook, skylines, cities, seasons, and many more. The only thing is i haven't quite figured out how to copy it to blogger. If anyone knows please tell me! When i find out i will be sure to post it. I also created a slideshow that i posted. I think this is a great idea to show people who you are and what you're interested in! All i did was go to Photobucket.com and created an account for free. It was very simple and took like a minute. You can create a slideshow by uploading pictures you have from facebook, myspace, or stored on your computer from your camera. Once all the ones you want are uploaded you just click the little B for Blogger and it posts the slideshow on your wall! There's no creating that you have to do. It is a very simple way to personalize your page! One last suggestions i would make is to use the gadgets that are provided to us. There are many gadgets to add to spice up your page like the news, a poll question and the blogger logo. Good luck creating!!

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