February 20, 2012

Today I logged into my Twitter account for the first time in 1 1/2 years! Twitter is the tool of the week. I first signed up for a Twitter account in order to get updates on the buses at Wilson, but I didn't really understand how it worked at the time, and I've never gone back into my account to check the status of the bus! I was under the impression that the information would be emailed to me - ooops! Now I know better, but I'm still not sure that I will use my account. I added 3 people/institutions to follow, but I didn't find anything useful in the tweets that I saw. And, the tweets that I saw were very difficult to understand!?!?!? I think that I'm fairly open-minded to trying new things, but Twitter is one that I'm having difficulty remaining open about! :) I'll play with it a little bit more before I make my final judgement.

February 17, 2012

Today I learned about Storybird and made my first book (thanks to Amy for the idea of using IB content for my book!!). I embeded the book on this blog. It was a lot of fun to make and very easy to do! I think, however, that I will use this tool more with my son than I will for work related projects, but.....who knows!

My "All About CAS" Storybird Project

All About CAS by mbarcani on Storybird

February 12, 2012

Today I set up my diigo account and added a few bookmarks. I'm thinking that I will end up deleting most of the bookmarks I have currently marked in there (or just create a new group of bookmarks) and create a group of bookmarks that the IB kids can access to help them with resources for their CAS activities. I need to play with it more to figure out how to group/tag bookmarks to see how broad my use with this tool can be! I'm looking forward to playing with it more on another day!