bobsgrandma

Podcasts

2008-02-13T09:30:00.000-08:00

I looked through the lists of podcasts at sites suggested, but had better luck finding what I was interested in by googling a topic and attaching the word podcast after. For instance, I looked for Romeo and Juliet podcast and found it. Just for something fun to do, I think I'll use podcasts in my English classes....listening to a podcast of a scene from R&J instead of the students always reading out loud in class. The podcast I found sounded about as amateurish as my students would sound. But that's okay for something different. I'll see what I can find to use for poetry, too.

LibraryThing

2008-02-04T12:57:00.000-08:00

I created an account in LibraryThing and added five books to my bookshelf. I do like the list of recommended titles that come up for each book. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bobsgrandma

Image Generators

2008-02-04T12:29:00.001-08:00

http://sporkforge.com/imaging/sketch.php

Playing Around

2008-01-26T14:27:00.000-08:00

I've been working on that last habit of lifelong learning: playing around. I downloaded some pictures of my trip to Boston last summer. I added four of them to the Montana Libraries group. I changed the picture on my blog. I noticed that the RSS feeds are not all working....will have to figure that one out! This stuff is time consuming.....Hope someone out there enjoys my pictures of Boston. I looked at some of Lauren's pictures on Flickr. Very pretty place, Lauren. Now, I'll go play some more by being nosy and looking a other people's blogs.

A new semester

2008-01-22T11:01:00.001-08:00

It's a new semester and a slightly different schedule. My classes have started reading about classical mythology. Tommorrow is ski day (which I am not going on), and I will have time to work on this week's lesson.

2008-01-17T05:01:00.001-08:00

Okay, another thing that I need to figure out is how to add comments to my rss feed list. It would be nice to see when someone comments on my blog.

2008-01-17T04:53:00.000-08:00

Lesson 3 has been interesting. I opened my bloglines account and added some (not ten) feeds to my list. I ran into some problems, though, with blogs from the Montana Challenge. I did not see a RSS feed on all blogs, and not everybody registered their blog with blogspot. I'll try again today and enter the blog URL. Somewhere, when I first started this, there was a long list of suggested feeds. I think at bloglines, but I could never find that spot again. I also want to post some pictures on my blog today. Later.

7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners

2008-01-14T08:45:00.000-08:00

I think the habits I have the most problem with are setting goals, having confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner, and teaching others. The last is curious, because I teach young people every day. But mostly, I teach what I already know. I look at this habit as teaching something that you just learned, or are just learning, to others so that both of you are discovering new things together. Actually, I do do this in my classes. I call it "experimenting." I have had great luck in writing goals down. It's amazing how things "come to pass" when you do that. Has anybody read "The Secret"? I've been reading it and it poses an interesting suggestion: that if you believe something will be, it will. I kind of couch this phenomenon as prayer. "Ask and you will receive." The last habit, having confidence in myself, is just something I have to work through myself, I guess.

Jane

First post....ever.

2008-01-11T09:56:00.000-08:00

I've just started and haven't even looked at Lesson 1 yet, because I don't have headphones. I'll do it at home this weekend. Just have set up the blog and the email. Jane