Reflecting on a 3rd Week

Thoughts on the new stuff:

• I found the copyrighting material a little confusing (am I breaking the rules or not?). I felt like the logic kind of went in a circle.
  
• I enjoyed playing around with the photo editing material but am still exploring ways to use it. I think it would be helpful in documenting the things we do in class. I often take pictures of labs and activities and then to be able to edit/arrange/etc. those photos and post them on a blog would be nice. Students LOVE pictures of themselves! However, are there restrictions on posting pictures of students on the internet. We have pictures of them on our school website, so I would assume that some sort of waiver has been signed. Do I make them sign something???
• Perusing Flickr and Creative Commons provided many images that I can easily incorporate into my lessons. Creative Commons simplifies the whole copyright process which is nice.

In Other News

• It's been nice to have a week that had less new stuff because I really feel like it gave me time to settle into the "old" stuff.
  
• I do a lot of what Kelly referred to as multi-tagging but often open many windows and not get to everything and find myself bookmarking a lot for "later" (and for me later doesn't often happen). Recently I've found myself (because everything is there in front of me) reading more things on the spot instead of sending them into the abyss of later. (Sidenote: I started a delicious account but am still finguring out the particulars of that - I think it might just feed my "saving for later" addiction).

On the Twitter front

• I have established a healthy amount of people to follow and am really beginning to see the advantages. A tweeter (?) (@jameshollis) offered recently to help create or provide ideas for Smartboard lessons on tricky topics. I have also come across a lot of great articles that have led me to other great things. It's interesting because what I find often happens is that a link on Twitter ultimately starts me down a path where I find many more links and then suddenly I have many windows open and have read many interesting things that might now even be related to the original link. It opens a lot more avenues and channels to explore.
  
• While I've gotten quite a bit from the people I'm following on Twitter, I don't quite feel like I'm holding up my end of the bargin. My tweets have been few and far between. Part of it is my nature of not putting myself out there. I feel strange jumping into others "conversations" or throwing my ideas out there. I also seem stuck in the process of continuing to seek my own answers to questions or concerns instead of opening it up to people in my new PLN.
  
• So while I think I've gotten down a system and routine of getting information from others through these various routes, I need to work on getting my own information out there and utilizing the resources that are there. Less lurking!