Thing 19.

I love being a part of online communities! I joined my first one in fourth grade with my friend Julie. Julie had a neopets account and I remember being so happy when my Dad finally helped me sign up for my own account. I was so embarrassed because he made my username ECAFLUTECAT. WHY? ECA is my initials.. I just started playing flute.. and we had just gotten a cat. OMG, DAD!! Anyways, although I havent been on neopets in 10 years I was able to log in today and see all my old stuff! So embarrassing! Now I have a facebook and I dont really participate in any other ones although I used to have a myspace. I decided to try one of the sites listed and had fun making our cat, Romona, her own Fuzzster Account. She is so cool. Fuzzster is a cute website for pet lovers to connect but I doubt I will use it, it's like for the CRAZY pet people. Here is Romona's homepage. :] It's kinda cute.

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Thing 18.

Mark Zuckerburg. I LOVE this man. Thank you so much Mark for making facebook. Although I don't really think there is a place for it in the classroom but I would use it to communicate with fellow coworkers outside of school as a way to be friends without business all the time. I love staying connected to people from home in Memphis while I am here in Clarksville. Face book is just an amazing website and it is so hard to imagine life without it!

Here is a link to my personal page if you want to be friends! :]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=509553907

Thing 17.

Social Bookmarking is a fantastic tool. I love the picture we were shown of the purple sharpie and all of its labels. Online, you could type in any of the labels and after a long time of eearching you would maybe get a picture of a purple sharpie but by typing in more than one tags you could find a "purple sharpie" image so much quicker.

I have looked at www.stumbleupon.com a couple of times and love how it acts like a best friend who knows exactly what pictures you will love! I am constantly looking at pictures of cupcakes, cats, and DIY crafts because that is what stubleupon knows I love.

MY TRUE LOVE however, is pinterest. I LOVE THIS SITE. Not only can you pin and organize images of things you love to your board, but also you can go back to those images later and click on them to go to the website they originated for. It's just a lovely website of pretty, organized things. SO easy and fabulous. My pinterest name is eclabert in case anyone is interested in looking! I could spend HOURS on there. :]

I made this the other day from a recipe found on pinterest and it is my new FAV.

SNICKERS SALAD.


INGREDIENTS:
Cool whip
Snickers (frozen or cold - easier to chop)
green apples (tart, with a little sweet and lots of juicy)
Chop apples into bite size pieces. Chop Snickers bars into bite size pieces. Combine in bowl. Stir in cool whip. ENJOY!!

Thing 16.

I already have a cute google homepage! They are fun to customize and pretty easy to use. I like the weather and calendar features because I feel like I am always aware of what's going on! Although I visited some of the other webpages provided I will most likely not use them as I really am used to using my iPhone to keep track of to-do lists and certain things. Also, as much as I love technology, nothing feels better than crossing things completed off lists! OH, for a sense of accomplishment! :]

Thing 15.

I do not like Wiki. It is not easy to navigate, it kept locking me out, and it does not have an upload image button that works. I will probably not use Wiki as I don't like that you can change other peoples posts and works. It does not seem fair or even sensible to do.

Thing 14.

I used bubbl.us to create a family tree of sorts. It was fun and simple to use. Students can use it to organize or brainstorm for all different types of writing assignments. I also looked at Gliffy. It as well was easy to use to make flowcharts and other types of diagrams. Both are fun and simple and children would love using them instead of basic paper and pencil methods.