Flickr!!!!!

Now we're talking! From an art teacher's perspective how can any of the other 23Thinks compare to online photo storage and libraries? Need I digress? From the stand point of teaching visual arts and visual literacy-what better tools for understanding technique such as composition, balance, high and low key value scales...to enduring understandings such as pain, comfort, home, self....I mean, paintings, drawings, stitchery...Flickr has images of so many media-not just photos! Wow! Now from the point of view of someone moving from the 20th century, how do our students (and own children), ever get homework done? I am beginning to understand how they fill their lives with hour after hour perusing MySpace, FaceBook, PhotoBucket and Flickr. To all you Language Arts teachers out there, I feel your pain. Do students actually read novels and textbooks anymore? And as for my personal family photos, collecting dust in worn albums-perhaps on days too sweltering to exist outside this summer, I can start scanning in loved images for safe keeping! Just coming up for air--

Thing 5-RSS

So much information, so little time! As a novice in all of this, I fear that I am getting more that a little muddled about how to use this "know-how". I am feeling the twinges of addiction to the blog, and now that a plethora of blogs will be sorted and saved, and waiting for my perusal, my-how will I get anything else done? I am confused enough to not feel comfortable with all of this new knowledge, but I am enthused enough to continue to sludge ahead. Once I can adequately maneuver through multiple windows, blogs, technological tools...I envision 21c. teaching going on!

Reflecting on RSS

so much for "real simple syndication". I'm still getting lost creating new posts! I am hopeful and optimistic that this will start to come easier to me, but presently, I have 5 window screens open so that I can juggle directions, blogs, bloglines, passwords....I know I am doing things seriously backward-any advise?