Play Week

I loved looking at these tools for "Play Week." Shelfari was interesting. I liked browsing Mrs. Matzat's page. It's a great way to see recommendations from other people and a way to learn about books that I haven't read. Big Huge Labs/FD’s Flickr Toys was very fun to play around with. I made a jigsaw with a family picture. Jing is also a nice tool. I can see where Jing could really be helpful to educators.

Picasaweb, Animoto, Photo Peach

Wow! I had a lot of fun playing around this week. I take lots of pictures, so I could spend hours creating things using these tools. I will definitely create a quiz for my class using Photo Peach. I could see them really enjoying that. I would love to be able to use Animoto with class pictures that I have taken throughout the school year.

PhotoPeach

Family on PhotoPeach

Animoto

Family
Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.

Picasaweb

Ellyson

Picasaweb

These are photos of my family!

RSS and Google Reader

Google Reader makes it so easy and convenient to keep up with your favorite blogs. I love how you can organize them into folders too. What a great tool to stay connected with blogs. The best part about it is the time you save!

Diigo!

I love Diigo and was very impressed! I have used other social bookmarking in the past, but Diigo has really impressed me. It seems like you are able to do more with it. I love the highlighting and comment part of it. This is very cool. I'm not sure how I would have my second grade students use Diigo.  I am excited about using this new tool for my professional and personal use!