Thing #7

I guess I should have named this blog "The ramblings of a frustrated writer."  I am going to post this just like it comes of my fingers. I do nt know why ihave somuch problem wiht writing. it i snot just a typing thing. I make the same number fo mistakes and kinds of mistakes weither i write by hand or type. In additionit is very difficult for me to spot my mistakes onse they are down on paper. As a young person I loved to write and actualy think i had some skills in that area. I have note books of poems and short stories that i wrote back in high school. Unfrotunately eve time i shared my wrings with some onw they spent so much time correcting mey mechanical mistakes i do think they ever co to the content of what i was writing so i just stoped. 

when the internet was just getting started I had one of the earilest e-mail accounts, way back in 1991. In thoes days there were not many people with e-mail accounts.  Thei phsics community had a great preseence onthe net. In thoes days tehr was a premimun on quick communicatioin. If you sent a  message that was perfect, in spelling gramer and puncuation otheres would make fun of you because it was clear yo uhad spent to much time on it. There wer no spell checkers then. I fond freedom in thoes listserves and dialogs like i never had befor or since. 

Sorry about all the errors but that is the way I write. I could go back and clean it up but I just dont whant to spend the tome.   Even as it is and I was trying not to I can not tell you how any timees I auatticlay hit the back spact to corect soem thing. I ownder how many of our students are as frustrated as ME.

Thing #6

I have done some blog exploring and found a few that are interesting.  I am a Tuba player and one of my long time heros is Roger Bobo, to hear him you can click the here.   Well I found his blog and added it to my reader. It is interesting to listen to him as a person when previously I only new his music. (If you want to here the most amazing tuba player out there today check out this link here.  This is not Bobo, it is a Swedish tuba player named Øystein Baadsvik.) Ok enough about tuba playing.   

I also subscribed to my nieces blog. She is a 28 year old CPS worker in Waco who is going through some tough times and has decided to blog her experiences. 

I also subscribed to Techlearning. I was very interested in and article called Online Library for People with Print Disabilities Offers More Accessibility It talks about Bookshare. This is a site that provides print material for individuals with print disabilities. IT indicates that it is available for free to K-12 educational institutions.  I wonder if MISD has access?

Thing #5

Our assignment for Thing 5 was to set up a RSS reader.
I must say my favorite feed is Car Talk form NPR.

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510208

I try to listen to this show every Saturday but often miss it. With this feed I have an opportunity to catch those I miss.

I als0 have been checking out the feeds on infinitethinking.org

The following article. was particularly of interest to me.

http://www.infinitethinking.org/2009/02/lucy-and-lucies-friday-five-cellphones.html

We have to come to term with the fact that our students have more computing technology in there pockets than a major tier one research university had in their entire campus 30 years ago.