Thing 10

Twitter-I am not a big fan of Twitter.  I opened an account and sent a tweet.  I don't think I am the type of person to spend that much time on the computer.  I don't text on my cell phone, email is more my cup of tea.  It is in interesting concept and I can see how the kids really like it, but I don't have an interest in keeping those I know up to date about my life minute by minute.

I checked out Time's 50 Best Websites 2009, I was somewhat surprised to see that I was familiar with quite a few of the sites: Flickr, Twitter, Skype, Google, You Tube,  Amazon, Netflix, Wikipedia, F,acebook, Pandora.  A couple others that I checked out were Supercook, Tripit and Aardvark.

Thing 9

Copyright!!!!!!!!  That disneylike video was a little hard to take, but seriously.  I think that for students there are a lot of blurred lines regarding copyright and plagerism, some of the things that are available on the internet will blur those lines even further. I am not so sure that even adults who are not involved in education really understand about copyright law.  I think it is important that teachers frequently not only remind students about copyright law, but what the law means.  I know that even when I taught in higher education there was a lot of misunderstanding about what copyright meant. 

The additional websites were helpful, although I wasn't crazy about the comic book.  We all need to keep copyright laws in mind when we are working on our blogs.

Thing 8

This was a fairly simple thing to do.  It's nice to know that you can embed all these things in your blog.  Serious bloggers have a lot available to them for content.

I found a video about school nursing to embed in my blog.



Maybe this will give you some idea of what being a school nurse is

Thing 7

I looked at YouTube, which I have done before.  It can be overwhelming how many videos there are.  I also think that it is unfortunate that people take excerpts from YouTube to defame people or humiliate them.  One thing I think we have to remember about the internet is that not everything we see there is credible.

I watched a video about my hometown and commented on it, although I guess I it was more difficult than I hought, I wasn't sure it got posted and ended up doing it 3 times

Thing 6

I opened a  Flickr account, it was really easy as I already had a Yahoo account.  This would be a good place to put pictures you want others to see, although I kept my account private.  I have also used a site called Snapfish which is similar. I did upload a picture and it was really easy.

Thing 5 with picture

I found a picture of James Madison's "Temple" on Flickr.  I chose this picture because Bob and I visited there while we were on vacation in Virgina a couple of weeks ago.

This is James Madison's "Temple" it is located a Montpilier in Virgina about 45 miniutes west of Harrisonburg.  It was placed over an "ice house" and they stored ice and other things that needed to be kept cold.  This allowed the Madisons to have ice for cold drinks and provide guests with things they might not otherwise have had available to them in the summer.

Thing 5

Flickr is interesting, it's nice to know you can easily find public domain pictures so easily. I was able to find some pictures  of places I visited on vacation.