"Anything Technology Related"

My choice for my blog that is anything technology related involves photos. My library is being used for a lesson unit from out art teacher. He is teaching Adobe Photoshop. During this time, I've been following along on my teacher computer. Photoshop is quite the interesting program. The possiblilites that you can do with a picture are almost limitless.

If you want to see some photoshops, and have a sense of humor, A website that I used to visit in College called Something Awful, and every friday they have a Photoshop Competition called Photoshop Phriday. A sense of humor must be had though, but some of the photo shopped photos are acually pretty inredible.

Flickr

Flickr is a website that I rather enjoyed.

I did a few searches, one of them for Airplanes (I'm a private pilot, airplanes fascinate me), and the return was about 65000 pictures. Some of the pictures that returned however had nothing to do at all with what I searched.

My Picture

The picture that I selected to blog about is one of Cadillac Mountain, outside of Bar Harbor, Maine. Also, the location where that picture was taken specifically was where I proposed to my Fiance'. That place kind of holds a special place to me.

I also explored one of the reccomended third party websites, I checked out Mappr. I didn't know that this even existed, and its extremely interesting. There is a demonstration on the first page called route 66. The pictures follow US Route 66 the whole way accross the country. Absolutley Fascinating. Its amazing the things that technology can do for us. More to follow in my next entry.

WEEK 1 NUMBER 2

Upon competion of the 7.5 habits of lifelong learners, I've come to conclude that I am a lifelong learner. I determine this obviously because I'm here. There are several other factors that make be feel 100% confident that I'm a successful lifelong learner.

The state of Pennsylvania requires all their teachers to be lifelong learners, because of the Act 48 requrement. I also hold a Private Pilot's certificate, which you also must be a lifelong learner to stay current on changes in regulations, and even something simple like keeping your certificate current.

As far as my behavioral contract is concerned, I'll break it down below.

1) Goal. My goal with this course is to learn how to utilize the new and ever changing web 2.0 applications to further my effectiveness as both a library media specialist and as an instructor.

2) Obstacles that I feel will may need addressed include learning new technologies, dealing with interruptions, and getting faculty members to go along with the new web 2.0 applications. I feel that if I can use this course to educate myself, I can pass that on to the other faculty members and the students where I work.

3) Toolbox. Things that need to be included in my toolbox are a computer, and high speed internet. I've used a few 2.0 applications with dial up, and they just dont work the same. The rest of my toolbox, I'll assemble as the course continues.

4) Resources for help. Resources for help that I feel I can use are other faculty members at my school, and other people in the class. Also, something as simple as a Google search can be effective, as long as you know what you are looking for.

5) Path to goal. The course pretty much lays out the target date for the objectives, does it not?

6) Check In- I'll update often as I need to, to keep in key with the course.