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Thing # 10

Merry Christmas everyone! I had a lot of fun playing around with the images and creating pictures. The Image Chef was the easiest to work with for me. The smiley face site was fun, but it took me awhile to figute out how to post to my blog. Finally, I remembered that I could upload the image to Flickr and then just send it to my blog. Amazing! I think you could create really fun images with student or teacher pictures on our library website.

Thing # 9

I lookled at all of the tools that were suggested and found the Google Blog Search and Edublogs Award winners were the easiest to use. I didn't particularly like Syndic8.com. I really liked a blog I found called A Library by any Other Name through Edublogs Award winners. I have never noticed the RSS symbols on pages until we started this lesson. It is really interesting to see how many sites that are in my favorites have RSS feeds.I added the Dallas Morning News and New Releases to my reader and I also(like MT Shelf) added allrecipes.com. If you haven't tried this site, you need to!

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Thing #8

I thought the RSS was interesting although I don't really have time to read the feeds that are being sent to me. I had A LOT of trouble getting my email address verified from Google. I never received the verification email so finally they just did it manually for me. That was frustrating! I can see teachers maybe using this to have something like CNN feeds sent to them. I just think it takes awhile to read through the information that you receive and most teachers probably don't have the time to do this.