Thing 9

I skipped Thing 8 for now!
I like these gadgets! I added some swimming fish for a nice natural calming feel. I also added a countdown til the day I move! Right now it's at 29 days and that seems like 28 days too long!
I will add the streaming photo gadget when I finish with my Thing 8, but since I don't have a Flickr account I couldn't put it on yet.
I'm really diggin' my fish!

Thing 7

Although I'm VERY excited about Google Reader, I must say it's getting to be a bit much to keep track of which sites do what. I'm feeling a bit of overlap, but I guess it's better to have more options to choose from rather than less. I had seen the RSS feed on many sites before, many I visit often, but never knew what it was exactly. I'm now following a few outside friends' blogs, which is fun, and I'm slowly getting addicted to some gossip blogs, which I DON'T DO!! I couldn't even name 3 gossip magazines. Although this will keep me more organized, I need to figure out which ones I really want to subsrcibe to and if I'll even read it all. Some of the sites will send me WAY too many posts every week that will just be a waste.

Thing 6

To begin, I'm very much behind. For Thing 6 I went to Weebly and created my website. It took a bit more time than I expected for me to actually do the website, but in the end I got the hang of it and it was really petty easy. I think the reason I thought it was so difficult is because I have a wiki that I use regularly and the setting changes and format changes were different. I think I just expected it to be like my wiki so was looking for the exact same "buttons" or commands. I would use this for classes because it's nice to have, and for your students to have, access to whatever you want them to in and out of school. I've gotten used to my wiki so I'm not sure how much I'd use my website at this point. Maybe if I get really technologically savvy I'll have a link to my weebly on my wiki and a link to my wiki on my weebly!

Thing 5

I've created a Twitter account, no matter how much it hurt. My Twitter name is KirstinBacon.
I felt like I needed to be at least 15 years younger, or be somehow famous to be "tweeting." I looked through some options of people/organizations to follow and actually found some things I might like to keep up on. I am following NPR, The Onion, Yoko Ono, Room to Read, Questlove, Bob Vila (yes...Bob Vila), Depeche Mode, and, probably the most influential, MC Hammer.
I "retweeted" but I'm not exactly sure what that does since I have no followers. We'll see.

Thing 4

I really like Google Documents. I have two computers at home and obviously my work computer. There are many times where I'm logging into different computers not remembering where I saved something. I also need documents at home that are saved at school and the opposite. Thumb drives, jump drives, travel drives, whatever you want to call them have failed me on too many occasions. Google Docs will have a new space in my heart.

Thing 3: Delicious

My username for Delicious is kirstinbacon.
I can see this being useful because of the access you have to your websites at home and at work. I sometimes get frustrated when I need files that are on the network at school and can't get to them from my home computer. This would allow me to at least access what used to be my favorites on the school computer when I'm doing work at home. I could also see using this with my students and having them access various websites from home to complete assignments and projects.

Thing 3

I have started to "follow" D. O'Rourke, B. Wilmot, K. Turk, J. McGrath, and L. Forberg (English). I'm starting to get the hang of some of these things, and I have to say that I'm excited about this adventure. This is what my life has come to; "adventure" to me is learning how to blog. Yikes.

I have also started to label the posts using education, misc, and technology. Nothing fun; nothing fancy.