Thing 16

Make your Stick Figure Family at FreeFlashToys.com

I found it pretty easy to create and post my widget. Some widgets are definitely useful. I remember visiting one site that used to have a digital clock widget. I hated it. I always felt like I was being rushed to read the site, or I was being reminded of the time I was wasting. It really distracted from the site.

Along with my family above, I also added a search bar for searching for things in my blog specifically. I really like this on other sites, so I thought it could be useful on mine, too.

Thing 15

Wow! Using Screen-o-matic was incredibly simple! It was such an easy process, I'd say any students could use it, even young ones. Here's mine.

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I am amazed by VoiceThread. I love it! I wish I would have had this tool back in college for all the group work we had to do. I can really see using this tool for so many things. I really like the idea of posting pictures and thoughts for students to comment on, but even more than that, I love the idea of kids commenting on other kids work. Very cool!

This teaches so many things, including constructive criticism. And why not comment on random people's work? Especially kids' work!

Thing 13

I checked out YouTube. I've watched countless videos on there in the past. It's an amazing tool for sharing... everything. There are definitely some unbelievable videos on there. My most recent uses of YouTube include playing this video for my son when he wanted me to read him another book when I had lost my voice.



And this is probably one of my favorite videos right now. It's hillarious! Especially when you are a babywearing mommy, like I am.

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I also wanted to share my Wordle of my favorite poem, because I thought it turned out really great.

Thing 12

I looked through a number of the Tools on the list. I regularly use Weebly for both personal and professional reasons and I love it! It's so easy. I've created Web sites before from scratch, programming html, and I just don't have the time for things like that anymore. Using Weebly has it's limitations, but for basic sites, it's a wonderful time saver.

I think my favorite from the list is the first one, BeFunky. Because who doesn't enjoy doing this to their photos...
The original.

The cartoon.

And the horror flick.

Thing 11

I checked out Delicious. I guess out of everything so far, I see the least potential for me in social bookmarking. I have an account and I just don't find it that useful. In theroy, it sounds great, but I seem to spend more time searching for things with Delicious than I would without. It is interesting seeing what other people are tagging; and yes, I do occasionally find something that was worth it. I just don't see me using it.