Lesson 13 Reflections

For me, this a good lesson because there are three things here which are useful. Tagging on delicious.com is an excellent method of maintaining and managing a favorites database. First it is off computer so it is accessible from any system. Second, because of tagging, I can cross reference with various uses or descriptions. Third I can share my favorites with my daughter who is also an English teacher. The tag cloud is useful to demonstrate to my students visually the frequency of word use. Thanks, this lesson works for me.

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Lesson 12 Reflections

This is fun and cute, but I believe that these tools, along with some of the other lessons, are not useful for my advanced English students. If I were teaching lower or middle school, I could see a place for these.

Lesson 11 Reflections

While straight forward, even simple, I appreciated this lesson about community and civility. It's very encouraging for someone from the old world to see that important core values are being carried forward into the new world. That isn't always apparent during our days in school. I enjoyed visiting other blogs, particularly of someone who had finished the 23 things and the bog for Mr. Skip, a thoughtful, easy-going indivdual it would be easy to revisit.

Lesson 10 Reflections

This lesson would be really straight forward if I could get it to work. Three times I've gone to YouTube, picked out a video, hit the embed button, right clicked on the link to copy, then gone to my blog and pasted it into the link. All of that goes fine and then I get an error message telling me that "Must be at most 256 characters." Needless to say, I'm frustrated with this lesson.

Lesson 9 Reflections

YouTube is an exceptional tool from a research point of view and compared to Lesson 8 very relevant. I don't know about the restrictions of its use in our building; that's something to check on. I will spend more time to ascertain how I might use this with my students. I suspect there may be material which is very pertinent to some of my subjects which would be fun and a change of pace.

Lesson 8 Reflections

While mildly amusing, this lesson is of doubtful utility to me as a teacher of upper level students in High School English. It would seem to be much more useful to those who teach middle or lower school classes. It is interesting, however, to see some of tools that people develop and seem to want to use.

Lesson 7 Reflections

This Lesson was very straight forward and shows how easy it is to set up sets with descriptions and degrees of access. For class I could have students access a set of pictures and in the description briefly describe the situation and then ask them questions as an assignment.

Lesson 6 Reflections

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This photo shows beautifully the power and usefulness of flickr. I can use this photo to help teach the evasiveness of much of what is exemplified in 19th century Enlish literature. Flickr will allow me to extend visually characteristics of a time period or an Author. Lesson 6 makes up for some of the shortcomings of previous lesson. This is great!

Lesson 5 Reflections

I get the reader and its automatic feeds and can see that it can be used as a time saving research tool when combined with the blog search. I can also suggest that the tool be used by my students. It's unfortunate that the lesson has not been updated to account for changed lesson URLs and that the guy doing the lessons has different tool bars that I do.

Lesson 4 Reflections

While Lesson 4 was interesting and may be useful for personal use, it isn't immediately clear to me how I will be able to use it effectively with my students or colleagues. While I can share things using Reader, it would seem to be a more difficult way to do so than by simply using email. It may be that I will have to digest this lesson, along with the others, before I am able to appreciate their true relevance.