2.1 Finished?

I think I am finished with Web 2.1. This has been a great experience! It has been great to share these activities with my 15 year old daughter. She whines that "It's not fair that you can take these courses and I can't". She has been going through many of the activities to use with her drill team and other activities.

2.1 Thing 46

I tried many times to get my survey posted on my blog and did not manage to do so. I did enjoy making the survey. I made it to ask how viewers liked my blog but I couldn't even get the URL posted on my blog.

The Rescue-Remix (Click on the arrow to see show)

2.1 Thing 45

I like both of the types of chart making tools. My only concern is that one of the sites said that the chart I was making was public. I started making a family tree with dates of births and marriages. When I realized it was public, I deleted it.

http://bubbl.us/
http://www.gliffy.com/

2.1 Thing 44

I am glad to have this possibility to be able to send myself reminders. I see where getting older has affected my memory. (Although I wouldn't admit it in front of my kids.) This will be helpful with all of the ARD (IEP) meetings I have to attend. I can call and send myself a reminder and maybe never be late for another one.

2.1 Thing 43

I tried to go to Midi but it would only work if I gave them a credit card. I do not want to have to pay for anything and I don't want to give my credit card over the net for them to hold until my trial version is over.

2.1 Thing 42

I signed up for an Orientation & Mobility group. They have been talking about some important topics to the field.
I looked for a group for Vision Teachers but did not find one. Both fields cover a lot of the same issues, so I will be watching the O&M group for a while to see what happens.

2.1 Thing 41

I am excited to have a site where I can learn to speak, read, and write another language, especially Spanish. When I was in school, I did not have to take a foriegn language. Now, I wish I had taken it any way. This will give that opportunity to learn. I plan to go to the site in my spare time to work on the language. I like the fact that you do it on your own time and at your own pace.

2.1 Thing 40

"Retroland" is a neat site if you are getting ready for a class reunion or Trivia Pursuit game. It could also be used in the classroom to have students look up information about the events that occurred at the time a famous person was born, graduated, married, or died. This would be very fun in an history or social studies class.

2.1 Thing 39

Even though it took a long time to get the video made, it was fun getting there. I had to find out the hard way to only load two pictures at a time. That is what took the most time. Then, when I finally finished and the video was produced, several of my pictures were left out. I'm going to keep trying until I get what I want.

2.1 Thing 38

I enjoyed exploring Toondoo. However, I would have liked more directions from the site to tell me what I needed to do to make my toon. Also, I could not get some of the items to load. When I tried to save my work, it did not work. I was very disappointed because it took me a while to figure it out and to get what I wanted. (even though it doesn't look like much)

2.1 Thing 37

Pandora seems to have all of the music I really like. This is a site I will be using all the time. I will be exploring this one more to learn all that you can do with it. I regret that I don't have the type of phone needed to play the songs on it. I am glad, though, that I can transfer the songs to my IPod.

2.1 Thing 36

Picnik seems like it would be a good way to edit your pictures. Today, I had trouble going from page to page and it took a long time to load the next page when it did come up. I am not sure if it is my connection or what. I will keep the site in mind and try again when I get to another connection.

2.1 Thing 35

Twitter seems like it would be helpful. I currently use MSM Messenger. Most of the people I know use the same one. I did send an invitation to everyone that I normally communicate with on MSM to try out Twitter. The good thing about Twitter is that it seems there are a lot fewer people who use it so it may not take as long post new mesages. The only problem is getting people to try another blog.

2.1 Thing 34

The Nutridiary site is nice. With weight being such a big problem in our society, I could see how using a site like this could be good in the schools to encourage children to loose weight. I will be signing my own child up for it as well as myself.

2.1 Thing 33

Each of the ones I could do were fun. I could not get the Falling Sand page to work. I must not have the proper software. I tried to find the program I needed but was not able to do so. My children both liked these sites and asked me to email them to their computers.

2.1 Thing 32

I didn't get a membership with Omnidrive because they have too many accounts already. I signed up for them to let me know when a spot becomes available.

2.1 Thing 31

Here it is 10:30 at night and I can't seem to get off of the computer again. There is a lot of things on this site that I want to explore. I have so many things saved in my favorites so I can go back to them. It is a good thing I don't have to get up too early and I can play with this site and some of the others more.

2.1 Thing 30

These are cute. I am not a cat person, but I did like a few of them. The one that really caught my attention was the one where the cat is mixing music.

2.1 Thing 29

I really enjoy scrapbooking but seldom find time to do it. I also seem to have a difficult time getting my pictures printed out or sent someplace to print them. By being able to load the pictures directly to the site and putting them on pages, it takes away some of the excuses I have. The only problem I had was trying to figure out how to get the pages printed. I did get them printed but they did not fit the full page. I look forward to playing with this site to get what I want.

2.1 Thing 28 O&M Experiences Seeing Eye

2.1 Thing 27

I like "Photobucket" because you are not limited to only still shots. I also like that you can get pictures and videos from several different sources including your cell phone. However, when I tried to save pictures from the site, I couldn't do it. After waiting 5 minutes for them to save to my album, I gave up.

2.1 Thing 26

The "Yourminis" site is interesting. It was a quick lesson to do. I'm not sure that I will use it much but at least I know it is there. It takes such a long time for my computer to start up, that I hate to put something else on the desktop to slow it down even more. Also, the net is not always accessible when I turn on my computer so it would probably not work properly.

2.1 Thing 25 revised

OMG! As you can tell, the link works. I tried to make it a lot harder than it should have been.