Online Photo Album

As a scrapbooker, I can see the wisdom of wanting to keep your photos forever and worrying that computer malfunctions might send them int the abyss. I only downloaded a few pictures to Flickr so far, but I loved how quick and easy it was. I could also use Picnik to modify those pictures right on the Flickr site, which made the process even easier to use (and made my pictures look better quickly).
I also love the idea that my friends can quickly and easily see new pictures from me. It saves lots of time trying to email pictures that may be too large. My friend Terri is a mural artist and I could definately see her posting pictures of her work for people to search for. That way she would be able to use them as her own website without the hassle of creating one from scratch.
We just did a community project with our kiddos where they had to get pictures of certain people and places from around the community. That would have been a great oppertunity to work with Flickr.

RSS Feeds

So I finally got so lost with this class that I had to beg for help.
Thank god that I happen to be married to my very own computer guru. He helped me figure out how to use RSS feeds to look at news sites and blogs (though he made me include his blog as an example). I think I understand the purpose of using an RSS feed to keep information current, but it will be awhile longer before I'm comfortable using them often I think.
An update, since my blog was not accepted...
I have noticed that most of the websites I search on a daily basis have options for RSS feeds. The idea is to update followers to new content on a page. For example, if I had my students subscribe to my blog (and if I had something useful to say here) a RSS feed would update them when I had created a new posting that they should read or respond to.

Podcasting

I have used different forms of pod casting in the past, but I have never subscribed to a podcast. As I explored the different pod casting websites, I was amazed at how many interesting pod casts there were. There was information on all different kinds of theatre, music, pretty much anything you could want to know more about. I am a little daunted about creating my own podcast (Will it be interesting? Do I have anything important to say? Does anyone want to listen?) but I am also excited about the chance to "put myself out there" and see what I can do.

Apparently I need to add some more information to my blog about podcasting, so here goes...
I recreated my voicethread adding more pictures, more comments, more voice comments, a new video, a word document, and some doodling. Of all of this I enjoyed the doodling the most even though it seems like the most useless feature to me. (I can just see my students going overboard with it.) I do like the fact that using voicethread can allow several users to watch and comment on a presentation at once. I can see it bein useful for asking and answering questions.