Sunday, July 13, 2008
THING 16
A Research Paper Calculator would have saved me from printing a 23-page assignment guide with calendars when I was teaching research paper writing for most of my career.
THING 15
Yeh, well, I have signed up for Get a Second Life or whatever it's called at TIES, so I will process my response to the experience there.
THING 14
LibraryThing? GREAT! I have been keeping a list of what I've read since retirement--perhaps not as many books as one might think a retired English teacher would have read. I enjoy reading reviews of books on Amazon.com and encourage students to do the same when considering a book to read. The idea of being able to connect with readers who have read the same books is intriguing. It could replace eharmony as the new singles hookup! I will consider adding my list when I have time to look them up on amazon. Here's the first book in my library at Library Thing. I wrote it.
Interestingly, in spite of its intriguing title and the fact that students are greatly interested in it whenever I mention it in classes, I don't believe our high school library ever picked it up, though they have carried many other books from Greenhaven Press, publisher of Opposing Viewpoints.
The success of the Breakfast Book Club and GQ: Guys Quarterly and the fact that many young people choose to read a book in their spare time at school suggest there are ample readers in the high school to appreciate the Library Thing as a place to exchange ideas about books and potentially make new friends.
THING 13
On Using ThinkFree Office and I quote from its site:
Wow! Never again will I be sitting in the small town public ibrary using the only Internet access available within 30 miles of my cabin, wishing that I had access to file from my home computer I hadn't thought to save to my flash drive. If I don't care about my privacy, that is.
Any Internet file storing site today includes in their privacy policy a disclaimer that files stored are secure unless a government agency requests them as part of an investigation. If, as a licensed teacher in the State of Minnesota, I had decided to follow through on a commenter to Thing 12's suggestion that I look up "hogtied bondage" on Wikipedia, then I save the site to blog about later in my response to the Thing 12 commenter, then forever after that file and that URL from the visited site remain in ThinkFree Office, where I composed my response before copying and pasting it into Blogger, where it can be subpoenaed for any investigation into my character and suitability for working with children. We know that, because a District Judge just decided that Google must turn over all records of whoever has visited any YouTube video ever. So much for privacy on the Internet, including ThinkFree. Interesting name. Sounds like Freedom. Which we have less and less of.
Online Calendars
I don't live like that.
http://lifedev.net/big-list-of-online-productivity-tools/
Many choices there! I could create a PowerPoint presentation and post it to a blog. I won't take the time for that now.
Slim Timer
Oh, boy. Now I'll be able to discover how much time I am really spending on a Thing rather than going by intuition and infrequent clock checks. If I can figure out how to get it to work. It is really a mystery. The FAQs say "...once the clock starts..." but I don't see any information about how to start the clock running. "Click on the icon." I do that and an opportunity to edit the task pops up. I'll wait ten minutes and see if a time log appears. This is a great productivity tool for those of us who can get lost online.
Hiveminder, Rough Underbelly, ToDoList
All have potential as To Do Lists with task reminders. I'm a fan of Outlook Tasks--when I think to use it.
www.toodledo.com
Some people's favorite "not just simple" to doer.
I'm suffering from burnout.
Ubiquitous Document Access
Your files will never be in the wrong location again. Using any computer connected to the internet, you can store and access all your documents in our secure storage server.
Wow! Never again will I be sitting in the small town public ibrary using the only Internet access available within 30 miles of my cabin, wishing that I had access to file from my home computer I hadn't thought to save to my flash drive. If I don't care about my privacy, that is.
Any Internet file storing site today includes in their privacy policy a disclaimer that files stored are secure unless a government agency requests them as part of an investigation. If, as a licensed teacher in the State of Minnesota, I had decided to follow through on a commenter to Thing 12's suggestion that I look up "hogtied bondage" on Wikipedia, then I save the site to blog about later in my response to the Thing 12 commenter, then forever after that file and that URL from the visited site remain in ThinkFree Office, where I composed my response before copying and pasting it into Blogger, where it can be subpoenaed for any investigation into my character and suitability for working with children. We know that, because a District Judge just decided that Google must turn over all records of whoever has visited any YouTube video ever. So much for privacy on the Internet, including ThinkFree. Interesting name. Sounds like Freedom. Which we have less and less of.
Online Calendars
I don't live like that.
http://lifedev.net/big-list-of-online-productivity-tools/
Many choices there! I could create a PowerPoint presentation and post it to a blog. I won't take the time for that now.
Slim Timer
Oh, boy. Now I'll be able to discover how much time I am really spending on a Thing rather than going by intuition and infrequent clock checks. If I can figure out how to get it to work. It is really a mystery. The FAQs say "...once the clock starts..." but I don't see any information about how to start the clock running. "Click on the icon." I do that and an opportunity to edit the task pops up. I'll wait ten minutes and see if a time log appears. This is a great productivity tool for those of us who can get lost online.
Hiveminder, Rough Underbelly, ToDoList
All have potential as To Do Lists with task reminders. I'm a fan of Outlook Tasks--when I think to use it.
www.toodledo.com
Some people's favorite "not just simple" to doer.
I'm suffering from burnout.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Thing 12
Have I ever gotten lost, read an article on StumbleUpon!? You bet I have! Many a time! Just now, in fact. Would I encourage a student to go there? Absolutely not. Unless one has the utmost discipline and least curiosity, homework time will evaporate while stumbling upon the most amazing websites. It may be a more productive use of time than reality TV, but it's a barrier to a strong GPA.
Thing 11
I took a TIES class that included del.icio.us. Thanks, Mike and Mike. I use the site as a way to have access to my bookmarks from any computer, but I haven't shared them.
Also, it's one more password to remember. How are others handling that issue? With so many sites to visit and sign up for in this 23 Things project, do people use the same user/passwords over and over or have great memories or what?
OOOoooo...I was not going to use any smiley faces on here.
More Thing 10
Cute video! I have concerns with using a wiki to plan for a camping trip, however! At least with e-mail there is a trail to follow. Using the wiki, I would likely forget what I had signed up to bring, and our little camping group might end up with two tents but no drinking water or food!
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