Picasa-Picasso it's all the same to me...

Okay it's a neat site (Picasa), and the tag thing is neat too. I was able to send a picture that had no tags-not sure if that means it was recently posted or it was such a boring picture of an orchid float at the Blomencorso parade that no one even cared about it. A bit sad if the latter is true. Picasa itself is neat, but again you start searching and one thing leads to another and time flies by! I've used this site in the past. At Christmas I was making a calendar for my parents of a collage of photos of their grandkids for each month of the new year and required my brother to send me more photos of his kids. It was easy to pull off his photos and then put them in the calendar I was making. However the fact that the pictures are not really secured and anyone can look at them is a bit creepy-you never know!
I may use it again, however many pictures are copyrighted so I'll probably just use it for interests sake!

Alright-are those hyperlinks annoying or what? I can't focus-(we've seen this in an earlier post), and I can't stay on focus on these blog postings. I feel like I'm in one of those "choose-your-own-adventure" novels that I used to enjoy reading in grade five. I keep clicking on the hyperlinks, read a bit, and click on another link, and keep moving further and further into the great wide web. A crazy, usually waste of time, clicking adventure-at the end time has moved on, but my listed of things to accomplish today hasn't decreased at all! Hypertext for the students is probably as distracting for them as that annoying kid tapping their pencil on the desk during a lesson is for me! But maybe this multitasking generation can handle it-I can't, and I am woman enough to admit it! I can see how the hyperlinks can enhance the teaching experience as well as the learning experience by having everything in a seemingly compact area-making it look like there isn't much to learn-tricking students is fun! But again-distraction, distraction, distraction is all I can say for myself!!! I find typing these blogs takes long enough, searching for an appropriate hyperlink too is time consuming and then dealing with losing my wireless internet connection every few minutes is getting more frustrating by the minute!!!! It's friday night, one kid has a cold, the other is teething (I hope), both are cranky and thankfully in bed, which is where I'm off too-once the internet connection works and I can post this blog!!!

Science Geeks are our Friends

Alright, so I'm trying to add...is it called a "hyperlink", I am so out of the loop-but I guess that's the purpose of this journey. Us science geeks like to explore other "cool" science sites, and now that this blogging thing is looking promising I might as well "link" to other places I'm exploring-for future referencing! So here is a cool one using brainteasers. This post is taking me a while to write since I keep going to the neat site and exploring it! I don't know if this blogging thing will be useful in the classroom because I think if the kids are like me, they will very quickly forget what they are supposed to be doing! Here is another good site, I've used the ideas from here for my essential courses: experiment of the week.
....okay, it's been another 20 minutes of being off in left field-what am I doing, focus on what you really needed to do tonight Isaaleroo! .... another 15 minutes wasted-focus, focus---another cool site for 4U bio teachers-oh wait it's some other teachers blog-can I send my students there? Or is that not really allowed? It would be so much easier though-I'll have to think about the ethical issues surrounding that idea.
I'm off to do some school work that I'll hopefully one day get paid for!

My favourite trip

Just got back three days ago from a great trip to Disney, had a great time with the kids. Lots of sun and a lack of people at the parks made the trip that much more fun. Next time though I'd like to do my dream vacation of a backpacking hike on a deserted island somewhere in the tropics-without the kids of course!
Travels in E-ducation-this is an opportunity for me to do something constructive during my maternity leave-it beats changing diapers, mopping up spit and playing cars on a floor mat! This is MY time to "chat" with adults!!!! Thanks for the opportunity!