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University of Minnesota Marching Band 2009 Homecoming Pregame Show (part 1)

I am typing this post just to let you know I do check it once in a while. Today I am sitting in a class about web 2.0 stuff and on top of the other stuff I have learned we are adding in things about twitter. These new items are things I have heard about but haven't had time to do anything with yet. The one thing that gets frustrating is that for each of these new web 2.0 things I have new log ins and new passwords that I have to keep track of. I wish there was a good way to keep track of all of your passwords for everything that you do online for things. We are also talking about back channel chat where you can make comments with people while you are watching a video or event on line. todaysmeet.com was the web site we used. This allows you to create a chat room for a certain time frame for an event. You can also put in a twitter hashtag, (more about this later). Today's meet is a live talk thing but you can't preview what gets posted so you need to monitor while using. Curriki was another site that we looked at today which allows you to post and look at curriculum items that people post. Edublog doesn't require an e-mail address to have a blog. Now we are talking about XtraNormal which is an online movie maker. You can create characters, type in what they want to say, record your own voice, and send or post it where you need to. Blabberize you can make a character talk. Wordle lets you create a list of work and they make a picture out of them, and the picture makes connection. Links to videos to teach you how to use twitter are on the ecmecc page.

tall ships

Untitled Document This is link to the video of the tall ships coming in at the Duluth Harbor on Thurs. July 31st. Below are some pictures and video that I took.

Thing 23

I am done. If you look at my last post you will see the things I am planning on keeping up with. As I have previously stated the biggest obstacle will be the time to keep up with everlything. I think the concept was fantastic but because there were so many things to get through I thought that I would have enjoyed maybe doing some fewer items and having more time to spend on actually playing around with the things. Almost all of the items required log ins and I don't know about anyone else but I almost need to keep a spreadsheet with all my logins written on it so I don't forget any of them. Not only did I have all the login's from here to remember, but I have about 1/2 dozen different logins for school things to remember as well. One of which requires that I change my password constantly but I can never reuse more than three characters from an older password. I think a lot of this stuff was fun to learn about but now as always I am stuck with information overload. I will have to pick and choose which things to keep up with and as I get more comfortable maybe add a few more things.

Thing 22

Yea, I am almost done. What did I like and what will I keep up with? I may keep up my blog and maybe change to focus to more social networking and teach my friends how to make blogs as well. I may try out some more with wiki's. I also will probably use flickr some more I really liked that one. I also plan to create book lists when I have time I really liked that site. If I only had a phone that I could send the books to my phone so that when I am in a book store I can find the books I am looking for. Web junction I may check out periodically to see if there is anything of interest. I will definately be looking into ELM as we move into my new media space next year and classes may use these sources more now that we have a sign out computer lab available. del.icio.us I will probably keep using to organize my links. I haven't decided yet on my rss reader. The biggest obstacle I have with all this is time. I do feel a lack of connectedness with other media specialists in my area and may use one of these tools to try and see if we can do some connecting in my local area.