Thing #20

I chose this You Tube video because I just completed an annotated reference folder on women in the Civil War, and I am creating a WebQuest on women in the Civil War and this video will be a nice link for that as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1OTIufDCww

Thing #19

Here is my link to my teacher pop badge.
<embed wmode="opaque" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/index/swf/badge.swf?xn_version=124632088" FlashVars="backgroundColor=0xFFFFFF&textColor=0xFF1A45&config=http%3A%2F%2Fteacherpop.ning.com%2Fmain%2Fbadge%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fxg_source%3Dbadge%26size%3Dmedium%26username%3D0umhynj6qyhl0" width="206" height="174" bgColor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed><br /><small><a href="http://teacherpop.ning.com">Visit <em>TeacherPop</em></a></small><br />

honestly I don't know what else I'm supposed to do with this! But I joined it!

I belong to Facebook and honestly that's enough for me, I really don't have time for anymore social networking sites at this point in my life.

Thing #18

Facebook is an awesome way to keep up with friends and family, as well as new contacts you make through your education classes.  I did join the Dept. of Ed. facebook page, hopefully I will not regret that (oops, did I write that!).  Here is the link to my facebook page, which is not open except to friends.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/monica.marshall.547

Thing #17

I understand how some people think this is absolutely awesome, however, I found it to be somewhat overwhelming with the amount of choices under any given tag.  I clicked on few and the seemingly endless array would take me longer to look through than just simply googling the subject I am after.  I like the Diggo site for our class, I see the merit in that, but I do not really see myself using something like delicious...maybe I'll change my mind someday.

Thing #16

I have had a homepage from igoogle for over 2 years now, I think it is the best and yes I will keep it.

I made an online calender twice already for this blog, so please excuse me but I'm not going to do it again.

The "to do list" I have no use for, I have an iphone and I can keep all that stuff on it.  Sorry this was such a boring post, but a lot of this is redundant.

Thing # 15

I will be editing this post when I find out what user name and password I'm supposed to use to get into the APSU 23 things sandbox.

Thing #14

I created a venn diagram at gliffy.com  I think it would be a pretty useful website.  Here is my document.

<img src="http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/4119649/M.png"/>

I could definitely see myself using gliffy.com in the future to aid with the creation of things to use during instruction.

I tried bubbl.us and found it a bit hard to use.  I made the document, then tried to create account to save it and it would not create an account, not impressed.

Thing #13

I created a simple document using Zoho.com and I personally was less than impressed with it.  The cursor hung about two lines below where I was typing and it made it hard to correct typing errors because I really didn't know where it was supposed to be.  Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with good old MS Word.

Google Docs I am already using and here is one document that I had stored there already.

References

Belle Boyd. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Belle-Boyd

Blanton, D. (n.d.). Women soldiers of the civil war. Retrieved from http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-2html

Charlotte Forten. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/onlyteacher/charlotte.html

Edmonds, S. (1999). Memoirs of a soldier, nurse, and spy. New york, NY: Amulet Books.

Larson, K. C. (2004). Bound for the promised land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an american hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/loreta_janeta_velazquez.html

Malburne, M. (n.d.). Susie King Taylor: Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd united states colored troops late 1st s.c. volunteers. Retrieved from http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/summary.html

Massey, M. E. (1994). Women in the civil war. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Pryor, E. B. (1987). Clara Barton: Professional angel. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Truth, S. (1850). The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Retrieved November, 2012, from : http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html

Varon, E. R. (2005). Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Weinberg, C. R. (Editor). (2011, April 25). Elizabeth Varon discussing Women of the Civil War [Audio podcast]. Women In the Civil War. Retrieved from http://oah.org/programs/civilwar/podcast

My students could use google docs to share research information because they could be added as a group and all contribute their information to the same place for all to view.

I much prefer Google docs over what I saw on Zoho and will continue to use Google docs in the future.