Chapter of choice

Chapter of choice:
I had decided to focus on Chapter 3 Weblogs because I had wanted to explore the sites the author recommended at the end of this chapter.  After spending about 45 minutes trying to access these sites with no luck, I decided to wait until class last Wednesday to ask Kelli about the problems. 
I learned that many of the tinyurl sites may no longer be available, but I did learn a lot about the concept of these types of web addresses from wikipedia! 

So today I decided to find another site to gather resources and noted on page 18 in the previous chapter   ideasandthoughts.org, which is Dean Shareski's (teacher and blogger) site.  What an interesting find!  He is a private consultant in Canada that focuses on videos and blogging in the educational sector.  On his favorite sites, I found one on visual prompts, which I already use in a rudimentary was in class.   This  site gave me great ideas for updating existing lessons with Web 2.0 tools. For instance, there was one using quotes with visuals and associated blogs so that students could communicate with others about the same prompt.  This site also gives prompts for all content areas and all types of writing.  Almost all his blogs have links to other related sites.  I have made many of these part of my favorites.