Thang ? Delicious

Delicious was yummy. It was easy to use and I was able to quickly download my bookmarks into the file. There have been a few times where I needed an address that was on another computer and didn’t have access to it. So the delicious file will make it easy to find all of my addresses. The google documents lesson was also very helpful. I had written a google document before, but I had never worked on one with other people making changes. It was helpful to see how that worked.

Only one of my thangs after number 16 has a link. Are the other thangs going to have a link or are we on our own to work with them?

Thang 16

The MnLink tutorials were easy to follow and made everything very clear. Mnlink is great but for some reason my library card bar code doesn't seem to work. But, I was able to search for items anyhow. I searched for Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" The book is great and the videos are awesome. I have used them in class before. It is amazing the number of resources that are avaiable through MnLink. I will definitely have to turn my students on to this resource.

Thang 14

I didn't find the librarian index very easy to use. There are some science resources I do use. One is called Steve Spangler science. It has great demonstrations and experiments that you can see and then do in the classroom. I also have a couple of sites which show molecules in 3 dimensions that students find fun to use. With my beginning science students the sites with interactive periodic tables are really good for helping the students learn about different elements.

Thang 9&10

I reviewed the plagarism quiz and feel very comfortable with my understanding of the topic. In the avid program they practice a discussion technique called philosophical chairs. A issue is brought to the group and they choose one or the other points of view by standing (or sitting in the philosophical chairs) on opposite sides of the room. Then the discussion begins with one person on one side stating why they chose that position. Then a person with the opposing view point has a chance to speak, but before they can present their position, they must paraphrase what the person with the opposing viewpoint said. It seems like this is a great exercise in helping students develop paraphrasing skills which are necessary to avoid the plagarism issue.
I also tried to embed a video clip in a powerpoint presentation and ran into some problems. I have a number of video clips saved on my desktop which I downloaded from United Streaming. They are in a windows media format. When I go to powerpoint and click on movies and sound to put a clip in my presentation and go to my desktop the windows media files which I downloaded from united streaming are not highlighted and as far as I can tell are not accesible to be put into the powerpoint. Does any one know how to make those video clips accesible?