Week 5: Thing 12

Looking through these wiki’s I was awed by the design and artistic ability. Where does a math teacher start? Definitely I’ll be looking for some design and artistic ideas. On the Albany site, the flick link is missing. This surprised me and I wondered why? Here is the link to my wiki. http://mrsvandyken.pbworks.com/FrontPage It is a work in progress. I also went and played in the D-20 sandbox. The numbers to the things are incorrect because I missed the tweet entry. I'll get it corrected.

Week 4: Thing 10 and Thing 11

I started an accound on Delicious. I was very intereseted in the tag cloud and wanted to make a couple of large clouds with a new printer at our school. I tried to create a tag cloud with Euclid’s elements but it isn’t downloading correctly. Next I will try something else. Found several tag clouds that I liked. Ended up making a couple of clouds with the names of my puma students. I lost one that I liked so when I got another one, I saved it via print screen and made a jpeg. I’ll try and add it to the blog.

Week 4: Thing 9

Looking at social bookmarking sites. I looked for people and I looked for math sites. Created an account on delicious. I also set up a twitter account and am trying tweeting. My students were talking about tweeting today. They think it is just for old people. I laughed

Week 3: Thing 8

Reading through the blogs over other class members was great. I tried to comment on one of the blogs but it didn’t work. I should be able to e-mail the person tomorrow to see if they received an e-mail.

Week 3: Thing 7

I have set up a gmail account with RSS feeds. I’m finding that I am inundated with feeds. Is this something that I will be able to keep up on?

Week 2: Thing #6

When I saw the assignment on the Glog, I wasn’t very thrilled; however, when I got into it, I could see Glogs enhancing the multimedia class in place of a PowerPoint Life Story. I would also like to use a Glog as part of a fractal assignment for geometry. Currently, I am stuck trying to incorporate my Glog on my Wiki

Week 2: Thing 5

3rd party mashups are kind of interesting but this is also something that actually disappoints me. Just imagine how I felt going online to look on a map only to see that someone has taken pictures of my house and posted them on the map. Since the house has been in my family since it was built, this feels really kind of creepy