Posting Widgets proved to be very difficult for me. Each time I found a widget and thought I had copied and posted it, it did not show up on my blog! I finally settled for the widget Burger Time, for my brother-in-law Tom, whom I have heard loved playing this game in the 80's! I am hoping I can get it to actually post to my blog! I am definately ready to move on to the next "Thing!"
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thing 11
I read through many of the blogs and left comments on some of them. It was very interesting to see what other people are blogging about. It was also reassuring to know that I am not alone in having some difficulty with some of the "things!" I enjoyed getting comments on my blog. The comments provided me with validation for the thoughts I expressed on my blog. Leaving comments for other people was a little awkward at first, because I wasn't sure if the blogger really needed or wanted to read my "two cents worth!" However, the more I commented, the more comfortable I became with this task. I can definately see the worth of having a blogging community that is centralized around a common topic or theme, and how important it would be for everyone involved to comment to each other.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thing 10 - Embedding Videos
Here is a great video with a good description of what a career in speech language pathology might entail:
This is a video by Dr. Barbara Ehren, who is a speech language pathologist that specializes with adolescent language and literacy. You have to fast forward past the first story, which isn't too long, to get to her story. She is an excellent public speaker. I have been to three of her conferences. I can really identify with what she is saying on this video, since I work with adolescents who have receptive and/or expressive language impairments every day.
Here is one more video I wanted to post because it is just so funny! It is a great example of procrastination!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thing 9
I love You-Tube! The only problem I see with it, is that I could end up spending way too much time watching the videos. I especially love all of the music videos that are available. I am in a handbell choir at my church, so I really liked looking at all of the different handbell choirs and the variety of music that is available for them. I also play flute, so enjoyed watching a flute duet of The Christmas Song. One of my absolute favorites is the Transiberian Orchestra. They have a wonderful song called the Wizards of Winter. Someone posted a video of their song in time to a beautiful light display. Also, I put in the key words, "speech language pathology," which pulled up some great videos about the field of speech language pathology. I am sure there are other videos about other professions as well, which would be a great tool for high school students to use to research various professions and careers as part of their transition training.
Thing 8
Since I am a speech language pathologist, I wanted to create a motivational poster that had something to do with language, or expression. I liked the idea of using bright colors and decided to use the analogy of using our words as a paintbrush. I almost wrote..."use colorful language," but when I re-read that I realized I might be promoting the wrong kind of language...LOL.
I thought that this lesson was alot of fun, but again, very overwhelming. I also made a movie poster, starring my dog, Buddy! I wanted to use pictures of my son and husband, but they wouldn't let me! My movie poster is also on this page.
I think this a great tool for students to use when expressing themselves for a speech, or when making a power point.
Thing 7
I found Thing 7 to be relatively easy, as compared to some of the other things. The only concern I had was that Flickr is owned by Yahoo...I have had some problems with my Yahoo account recently. Someone hacked into it and sent some inappropriate emails to everyone in my phonebook! I told everyone to ignore these, as one person opened one and it caused a virus. I eliminated all of my contacts in Yahoo, and I don't use that email address anymore. That was the only reason I was hesitate about doing Thing 7.
I was able to post pictures of my dog, Buddy, very quickly on Thing 7. I can see how this would be a useful tool at school. The pictures could be shared amongst my speech & language students and used as stimuli for verbal description exercises and writing exercies. A fun activity for the students might be to have a few pictures uploaded and shown on a screen. I would secretly choose one of the pictures. Then the students would take turns asking "yes,no" questions that I would answer to help them guess which picture I chose, like the game "20 questions."
I was able to post pictures of my dog, Buddy, very quickly on Thing 7. I can see how this would be a useful tool at school. The pictures could be shared amongst my speech & language students and used as stimuli for verbal description exercises and writing exercies. A fun activity for the students might be to have a few pictures uploaded and shown on a screen. I would secretly choose one of the pictures. Then the students would take turns asking "yes,no" questions that I would answer to help them guess which picture I chose, like the game "20 questions."
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