Thoughts on 6 Activities for July 13th

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  I thought the Abilock article was interesting. I know when I look at pictures I think many things, but never really thought about all the components I bring to the visual information: personal, moral, ethical, historical, social, political, economical, cultural, aesthetic, critical, metaphoric. I will certainly be more "aware" next time I look at photos, etc.
• The "Snow" project looked like it had a lot of educational components to it. At first my thought was, "how long did this whole thing take?" but then it looks like they broke into groups and did different projects. I liked this idea, looks like they hit on the multiple intelligences and was definitely cross-curricular. I also liked the rubrics...I went to the website: http://makinghistorysnowadventure.googlepages.com/home.
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  As for images: Since we have Macs at my school, I have used iPhoto. But after I downloaded Piccassa, I think this looks like a site I want to spend more time playing with. Flickr has its benefits as well. I have used both Snapfish and Shutterfly, but I think I would like to find one site that does everything well and stick with it. Based only on the brief look at Piccassa, I'm thinking this may be that site. Just need MORE TIME!
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  Flickr, as I said definitely has its benefits, and seems to be widely used so I will definitely explore the potential. I can definitely see several educational values especially with the Maps feature.
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  Wes Fryer's video was a good reminder that even Kindergarten and 2nd graders can use these technology tools! I also liked his comment regarding kids and internet safety, "We teach our kids to swim if we know they are going to be around water..." in otherwords, we shouldn't get so freaked out about letting children have access to the internet, we just need to give them some "swimming" lessons so they can avoid dangerous situations.