Oh, yeah, my weekly podcasts

Time flies by so quickly. How did 2 weeks just get by me? I've learned lots of new vocabulary words like paradigm, labyrinth, remiss and forthright. I enjoy these podcasts and I figured out how to put them on my palm and take them with me. On BrainStuff this week, it talked about how a boat can float by displacing water and how the shape makes it work. Have you ever thought about how those massive cruise ships stay afloat? A combination of water pressure and the fact that a lot of the interior of a boat is air is what makes a boat float.

Weekly update from Lake Wobegon

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/ Here's a fun mind bender.

My weekly podcasts are going great. I found software for my Palm so I can take them with me. I added pallor and paradox to my vocabulary. I also learned why Friday the 13th is considered bad luck. I also signed up for the news from Lake Wobegon. I really like those podcasts.

Weekly podcast

I signed up for Just Vocabulary. The words that I learned this week are: palatial, odious, garish, and facetious. I already knew most of the words, but it was fun to remember them and hear them being used. My sentence for the day is "I was being facetious when I said that my home was palatial."

Reflections on Wikis in Education

I am planning on teaching grades 1-3 and hope to be a librarian someday. I honestly can not see myself using a wiki for lower grades. I could use to collaborate with parents of my students, but I just don't see it for the kids. For middle school and high school, I can see all kinds of different applications. I love the idea of having a common site to contribute during a group project. I would have loved to have had a wiki in some of my past college classes. I liked some of the ideas that were on the website. The website was pretty user friendly. I would have liked to have seen the links set up a little different. That's just my opinion.

First post for INST4010

Here's my blog for INST4010. I think blogging is just as good as email. You can use it to keep students up-to-date on assignments and classroom happenings. If you had a class where everyone had access to the internet, that would be best. Limited access to the internet would limit the effectiveness of your blog.