Thing 5b continued

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-takes-200-mln-from-russian-internet-firm?siteid=rss&rss=1

Facebook raises $200 million from Russian Internet firm
Social-networking giant says deal implies $10 billion valuation; no board seat

Things like this, even in hard economies show where the people with money, invest. Clearly this Russian firm knows that the future of these types of social networking sites is only going to go up. When someone does not have to pay to socialize with anyone, anywhere, there is going to be a market for this. This was their third purchase of a social networking site.

The reason for a delay in the second part of the post was I want to really see what was out there and then decide what to post about.

Thing 11

Photo Sources
1.Atlanta_Skyline_from_Buckhead- http://www.flickr.com/photos/cokak/355135172

2. Atlanta, GA-http://www.flickr.com/photos/84263554@N00/2102755866

3. Downtown Atlanta-http://www.flickr.com/photos/jekemp/6598786

4. Bright Atlanta-http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/449052129

5. Turner Field - Atlanta Fulton County Stadium-http://www.flickr.com/photos/partee/10678497

6. Turner Field-http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/481430565

Thing 10 part 3

Turner Field image by ucumari's on flicker

Wow this is really cool. I was just playing around making a collage of places in Georgia. I teach Georgia Studies and I was thinking how can I get my students more interested in what they are learning about, so when I came up to this Thing 10 I was like that's it. Let them make photo collections of different parts of the state as we talk about that section becoming part of the state itself.

I would have to think with the information you gave us there must be almost anything that you can find in pictures.

I found the above picture and new it was the one I want to post. So you will see it with some others in thing 11.

Thing 9

I am leary about creative commons, but I will be trying this out. First off I have never done anything like this, so it is still a little greek to me. I have seen the cc logo on certain site but have never know what it meant. Just like in the beginning of the course I had seen the RSS but never known what it was either.

I know my kids use things off of the internet all most every day and have wondered, at what point does plagerism come in. Well this thing answers this question very well. I typically won't let my students just copy text out of an article, I make them type it in their own words. I make them limit how many pictures they use for their projects, also.

I have used pictures, and videos in my lessons, but most of the time I have to say that I don't own them but our school does have the license to use them such as Safari Montage http://10.1.3.172/SAFARI/montage/login.php . I am just now getting into using the internet for all that it is worth, when you don't have the technology to use, or the equipment to use it on, you kind of just let it go by the wayside.

I am glad that there are firm guidelines to follow when using stuff from the internet. I am sure as I start using stuff more, I will become more familiar with what is acceptable and what is not. Fair use seems to be fairly easy to understand and follow, also.

Just a couple of weeks ago we used the web site http://www.bighugelabs.com and did a picture autobiography about themselves. Some student were amazed that some pictures would not show up in their project. I explained that not all pictures that are available for viewing are available to be copied and placed in your project. I guess this is the perfect example of fair use. Some artist freely want you to use their stuff and others don't want you to use it at all.

THING ME

I have my promethean now. WOO HOO!

Thing 5b

Well, I must say that I love my google reader. I don't have to read the newspaper or even watch the news. I can just look at my metro Atlanta feeds and see what is going on around Atlanta. http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=oy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fatlanta.bizjournals.com%2Frss%2Ffeed%2Fdaily%2Fatlanta

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=oy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FTeachersLoveSmartBoards Is really cool about learning things to do with our smart boards. I don't currently have one, but should have one soon. It is neat to be able to use "Things" from this class and off of the web and try them out.

I really enjoy what the Google Reader does and how I only have to read what I want to know more about.