FireFox Add-ons

Wow, I have recently discovered firefox add-ons and am very impressed. First, I would recommend getting a multiple line bookmarks toolbar. That is awesome. Also, there is an add-on called clipmarks that lets you take stuff from certain web pages, blogs, articles and past it/email it places. To practice clipping, I want to past a video about clipmarks below. In order to get clipmarks, just google firefox add-ons and then search for clipmarks.

wiki, linkedIn, twitter, converting to PDF

I have learned a few new skills in the past few months I forgot to mention in my last post.

First, I found out how easy it was to convert word files into PDFs. You just use a website from a google search. Takes like 5 min.

In Prof. Ferree's class, we learned how to make/use a wiki. While I didnt practice with it much and don't see much of a difference from a google doc (besides having many pages within the wiki), I want to keep working with them a little over break bc wikis are popular and useful.

Also, I have been using twitter more lately, but just from the perspective as a reader. I try to get on once a week but that sometimes doesnt happen. I am follower to a few educators tweets. But my next goal with twitter is to learn how to have conversations with people...you type in like @smith or whatever the person's name is...I think that's all but not positive.

Also, I have been using LinkedIn, which is a networking/job site where you post resume and profile of yourself and you link yourself to contacts and you can write people recomendations and people can look at your profile and jobs can search you and check you out. Pretty cool.

Next batch of things I want to learn: how to convert youtube files to regular ones so I could use them in a school if I wanted..I know there is some site out there that does it.
In addition, here are some more things I wanna do with technology in the weeks that come:
-work with that site where you can teach ppl languages and they can you
-i want to find some good education blogs and podcasts
-want to find a site where I could make a newsletter pretty easily
-want to learn some digital art stuff (photoshop, etc) that I could possibly use with students
-I want to work on my google site

excel skills are growing...

Hola, this week I learned some tricks with excel and word tables. Basically, you can take text and convert it into tables. Also, you can highlight on the boxes and adjust one and it will adjust all.
To make a new row, you can edit copy it in word table or in excel. I forgot how to make a new column, but it is not too bad I would guess.

Right now I am using excel to keep track of my field placement hours and also how much I am working for my job as RA.

Another tech skill I have used lately is creating google forms. Wow are these cool. In order to poll some Spanish house members on where we wanted food from for our end of semester feast, i set up a google form. 17/23 residents responded and because the data was tough to read, I put in in graphs and it tallies up who had most votes and everything. Pretty amazing.

In addition, I know doodle polls a bit, too, and survey monkey. So my skill with numbers is growing a little these days, which is good bc I will be in the classroom as a student teacher in like 7 months or so.