Late at Night / Second Life

It seems that the computer has started to call me late at night. I tend to get on here to just look at something really quick only to realize that I have been working for about 6 hours. School is out for the summer so that is nice. I am home with my two kids and have a nephew here for a few days to vacation. I hope tomorrow I will be able to be on top of my game even though I will be really tired.
I have spent some time researching 2nd life and don't think I much care for it. I think students could get lost in the program and miss what they are to be learning. When I tried to sign-up for an account it seemed that I would be assigned to a community and could meet all sorts of different people.

Blog Research for First Grade Blogs

I have spent about 3 hours today researching teachers' first grade Blogs. Most of them were newsletters to parents. It looks like the ones that allowed comments gave up on their blogs due to lack of interest from the families. This is discouraging because we are always being asked to do a better job on home school connections.
I did research a few and saw that the blog post were done in the classroom and students were able to respond to questions with pictures and stories. My favorite blog I found was

Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

Web Cams

I spent sometime yesterday trying to get my webcam set up for my assignment for next week. It is so funny how technology has changed because my webcam is pretty old and the quality is so grainy. Hopefully it will work for the assignment I am doing and I will experience enough to get the project uploaded to YouTube for a great grade.
Back too Blog assignment.

Taking Daughter to the Doctor

Today found me at the doctor's office with my 3 year old. She ended up having double inner ear infections. I felt bad and asked the doctor how long he thought she had them. He said by the looks of them probably 5 to 10 days. When then headed off to the store and picked up her meds and some groceries. We came home and she is now down for a long nap. Hopefully she will be on the mend soon.
While she is sleeping I am hoping to work on my blog page for my Monday due date. Week 2 big writing assignment. I need to create a PowerPoint and give details on how to sign up for a blog and also if it is useful in education.
Hopefully I will find it useful since I am an educator.

Working on More Research

My daughter has finally gone down for a nap so now I can get back to looking around the internet in search of educational blogs. I have also invited all my classmates to checkout my blog and try out my survey. I am not sure what I will see after they have visited but am interested and knowing what this whole blog is all about.

Working on my Blog Assignment

I am trying today to do some research on Blogs. I am so fearful of these things right now. I am hoping with the research I can become more comfortable with sharing personal information on the web. I am going to search some educational blogs today and hope to find some that would fit my first grade environment.

Home with a Sick Kid Today

Today is my three day countdown to the end of another successful year. I was going to do a bunch of stuff at school to get my room ready to shutdown for the summer. Yet last night at 11:30 my three year old daughter arrived at the side of my bed to inform me she had thrown up.
So Greg my husband "volunteered" to take to the couch while she climbed in with me with an ice cream bucket and continued to be sick most of the night.
I got up at 6 to discuss with Greg who should stay home today. So here I am. Hopefully he will volunteer to come to school next week and help with the summer packing.

Learning Techologies

Trying hard to research learning technologies and map them to the learning theories. So far I have gotten video conferencing, blogs, wikis, podcast, social bookmaking, streaming, YouTube, FaceBook, and Skype.