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Thang 25 Maps

I explored some different map sites this week. My favorite site was http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ I liked this site because it was more than maps. There were some pretty cool interactive maps (like the one that showed the spread of the black plague). It was also fun to explore the solar systme and see photos of the surface of mars and read facts about other planets.
The other site I liked was
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
These maps were a bit more traditional and not interactive, but there were some typical map features like land use, topography, and population. But there were also some cool history timelines. I know there are lots of other map sites, but these were two of my favorites.

Sharing the good stuff

My wife is currently teaching an intro to religion course at Hamline and I have turned her on to 21st century literacy skills and she is using them in her class. Many of their readings are on line articles so they are using reliable resources weekly. They have a final paper due at the end of the term and she set up their paper using the RPC with all of the intermediate steps. She then had the librarian do a session with the students in a computer lab showing them how to access reliable resources through the Hamline library. The librarian said what she had done in setting up their research paper using the RPC was the best she had ever seen for a research paper. My wife is planning to share how she set things up in class with the rest of the religion department faculty.

Thang 21

I registered a YouTube and looked for videos that might work in my classes. My son then found a program which will down load YouTube videos onto my desktop called vixy converter BETA. So when I find a video I like, I copy the web address, then open up the download program and paste the web address in and it downloads the video into a format I can use on my mac. The same program has download options for other types of platforms. Then the videos are easy to paste into a power point or just show.

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?