Doing Thing 4 in the Rondo N'hood

Stopped by the Rondo Community Outreach Library to do Thing 4. The north east corner is a wonderful spot with easy chairs a fireplace, some table and electrical outlets so you can plug in your laptop and cruise the internet from the library. On the door on the way in the sign says "Free English Classes for Adults". This library has a whole computer lab and there are usually people waiting on the side walk for it to open. At the computers there were young people helping some elders negotiate the internet. This is a wonderful place where people from all over the world come to learn. The man at the table behind me is using headphones to listen to information on a Khmer web site.
While I was on line here I went to the More for 4 and began to catalog my home library on line. I want to show this feature to my wife, I think it will be a great way for here to catalog her library.
Signing out from the Rondo N'hood.

Week 2, but no new "thing"

Used my equipment last week in class. Nothing spectacular but did some notes using Keynote and powerpoint. I teach in two different classrooms and moving equipment from room to room sucks. Both are also science rooms with large teacher demonstration benches at the front of the classroom. If I place the LCD projector at the far edge of the bench I get an image on the screen that is rather small. But, on the other side of the lab bench are desks and in the other room tables and students packed into the small classroom space, so it didn't seems possible to put the LCD and computer on a cart out in the midst of the students (tried it and it just wouldn't work). So there is the hang it from the ceiling option, but then I can only use it in one room. Also I am not sure my dongle is long enough to go from the ceiling down to the computer. Guess I would need a dongle extender (will I find one of those in my spamjam?) Any ideas? How have you set up your equipment in your space??

Here is an avitar Thing 2

I kept trying and trying to get this stupid avitar thing to work. Finally out of frustration I asked my son to look at it, as I took him through the steps I finally got to the step where I was stuck. The upload image tab wouldn't lite up and work. Then he says, oh, you need to check the accept the terms box which was to the right of the tab, and bam it worked. What I had struggled for well over and hour with and couldn't get to work he figured out in about two minutes. I'm definitely an immigrant.

Tecnology Standards, Thing 1

Reading the 9-12 research standard reminded me of the old science "inquiry" grad standard. We used to have students learn to do research. Luckily we didn't give up on that when the grad standards went away, and we still teach the research process. The new standard is infused with technology which moves it into the 21st Century. I'm excited because this project will help me move my student's research into the 21st Century.

Saturday

A lot of information and now I'm trying to get things set up. It is going well, but it certainly takes up a lot of time. I think I am most concerned about the time needed to utilize the technology and information effectively.
John

Our First day

Got home and turned on my lap top here and got right in. In fact it was so easy I didn't realize it and I actually created a second blog site. OOps. Now I'm not sure which one to use.