bookreeader

Flickr has been my go-to photo share site for a while, and I love that I can share with groups, or with family, or with everyone....and I don't have to hide family photos that I want the folks back home to see from the people I work with professionally.  (bookreeader again is my Flickr name!) My daughter started using Instagram to post pictures of herself everywhere she goes!  Now I send her snaps of her dog (which she somehow left behind) and places we go that she will recognize.  With an iPhone, it is the easiest way to share photos. I also like the 360 app on my iPhone, BTW.  I love taking panoramic pictures and sharing them on Facebook or Twitter or in emails.  It used to be a free app, but I think it is now $.99.....but it is well worth the buck! I played with a few tools, and found editing Flickr photos a snap with Aviary.  Then, with PicMonkey and my edited photos, this was fun and easy enough for a beginner to create: These are photos of ou...

In honor of the season, I have uploaded a picture of a wonderful Holiday tree!  I was surprised at how many images were available on Flickr, and how many were in the Creative Commons.  Flickr certainly has grown!   In the past, we have used it to share pictures with those who are far away, as writing prompts, and as a source for pictures in a photo-editing class.  It did take three tries to get the image to load, so I wonder how much patience students would have with downloading images from the Internet.  For elementary  students, we often download a few file folders of appropriate and usable images, and then show them how to select from the saved files.  I know that secondary students are used to finding images on Google; using a site like Flickr would certainly channel their searches and help them focus on the topic rather than the images!  As a side note - I think it is so important to remind students that images are property just as...

RSS feeds to me are R eminders that I am S o S wamped by information from all sides!  My GoogleReader feed is posted on a lovely iGoogle page, to remind me to check it frequently.  Unfortunately, I don't use the iGoogle as a homepage, so I have to remember to go there, as well.  I am glad when I do, because it has great info, and fun feeds like a Word of the Da y (of which I see about one a month) and a How-to of the Day (ditto), which is always useful!  Then I look at the Google Reader, and am horrified to see that I am SERIOUSLY behind in my reading! But this time when I peeked at my backlog guiltily, I noticed that the posts are the same as the ones that I have read through Twitter and Facebook, as I tend to follow the same bloggers on all.  This prompted some swift housekeeping, and I trimmed the Google Reader subscriptions back to ones that don't appear elsewhere.  And explored some suggestions, some of which proved to be worth tasting for a while....

I definitely would like to set up a board of some kind for the school library. We could add sites for research, fun tools to explore, games and educational activities, and other schools' sites. I am wondering whether to go with Pinterest or Learnist. Pros and cons: Pinterest is very popular, and seems like it is here to stay. Learnist is educational, so there would be less temptation to stray from recommended sites. Both are attractive, and easy to use. Must research and experiment further before unveiling The Site.....