Did you Grade my Essay Yet? and Other Ponderable Thoughts

 Blog Post #8 Hey y’all…here we are, at the end of our blogging journey. Perhaps it’s just the beginning for you!  I am not sure if I will continue, or make a new one.  Without the prompt right now, until I finish my degree, I don’t see myself continuing until I am done this summer!  I attempted one for my class of kindergarteners in Thailand way back in the day, and many parents of the kids were into it.  I’d have to see whether or not I could blog about my current students, but if I do continue a blog of some sort, I definitely want it known to my students and parents.  I think it could be a great way of establishing community relationships and partnerships.  Reviewing my own blogs I can definitely tell that I started to figure a few things out in terms of layout and add ons. I think my best post for professionalism was #3 - We are All Writers . Because I was linking to so many of the readings, I included hyperlinks that will take a reader to the Ama...

 Pro Blog Post #7 World Without Fish : PSA Hello! Here is my first attempt at creating a PSA in the digital form…and I’m just okay with it. I really wanted to attempt to do something with videos, but that is really hard!  I found lots of videos that I wanted clips from on Youtube, but using the various youtube downloaders…the ads and pops up are horrendous. I mean, everytime you click, another window opens.  I have an adblocker, but then with it enabled I couldn’t use the software. So, clearly, if one is going to make videos, the best way is to make your own. I give a lot of credit to the time and patience of a person who can go find videos, download them, edit them, splice etc. After watching Pauline’s example last week, I thought I would try Vimeo.  It was really user friendly but still I found myself putzing and playing around with every function. For this, I only used images.  I ran into problems this time with a lot of photos these days on websites and thro...