Week 5 - Things 10, 11, & 12

I absolutely LOVED playing around with the image generators!  I could play around with my pictures all day long.  Here are just few of my creations :)

As for the Web 2.0 awards sites, I investigated Thinkfree.  It seems pretty neat.  You can save your documents - anything from Word to PowerPoint or Excel - to the web & access them from anywhere!  Forget trying to keep up with your flashdrive or expecting your students to...just sign on to Thinkfree.

Week 4 - Things 8 & 9

I know that RSS Feeds were part of the wonderful petting zoo we had at our last inservice (which was the absolute best inservice I think I've been to...way to go Nancy!!!). There were SOOO many things that I wanted to go to that I decided to ask Charlie to teach me RSS Feeds beforehand. I totally thought that I understood it at the time...boy, was I wrong. I have no clue why, but this whole RSS Feeds things was rough to figure out.

Once I figured it out, I found several feeds that I think I'll enjoy. I love quotes, so I subscribed to a Quote of the Day feed, and of course I love all things Catholic, so I found a neat Catholic blog. It had a lot of valuable links on it, including the counter on the bottom right.  Oh well, we'll see if I come to love these RSS Feeds after all :)

Week 3 - Things 5,6, & 7

I thoroughly enjoyed Flickr. It was so simple to upload photos, and then you could view & work with them from any computer - work, home, school, etc. which is great for me because I'm always on the go & can rarely count on using the same computer twice.

As for playing around with the photos, my award goes to Big Huge Labs. I loved all of the things I could do with my photos. Here are a just a few:

Brandon & my beautiful baby girl.
He loves her immensely - she's very lucky!

My lovebug again...

I could post a thousand! I had so much fun putting all the photos I take of my precious girl to good use. Does this make me an obsessed mommy? Cause I don't really care if it does :)

Things 3 & 4

I am officially in love with blogs.  It's hilarious.  I teach the Confirmation sacramental preparation classes at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church.  I have a group of wonderful students, but only 2 go to Notre Dame.  I was really trying to find a way to stay in contact with all of them...then came the dream of blogging (insert dorkiness here).    I posted their assignments, due dates, pictures, etc.

So now I have a blog for their class, one for my Christian Leadership class, one for me & my 23 Things (& Lily, of course!).  What next...a service blog?  Time will only tell.

As for my avatar, the fact that I could add my precious lovebug Lily was exciting.  If only the picture could do her justice.  She is way cuter than the avatar :)  Oh, well.

So much for Blog #1..here is Blog #2

Well, I set up my first blog for Christian Leadership.  I loved it!!  I began reporting on my 23 Things on that site, but ended up loving it so much that I have decided to designate it for the sole purpose of that class.  I have inserted pictures of them, a poll for them to decide on their class t-shirt, and other updates.  For some reason, they (SEEM) to like it better than Edline...why, I dunno.

I felt weird having to journal about my thoughts on 23 Things while also inserting all kinds of class stuff.  So, here it is...the blog solely devoted to me, my Lily Belle (I couldn't POSSIBLY leave her out), and 23 Things :)