This picture was found on Flickr under interestingness. It speaks to how I feel right this moment. I am trying to make and stay on my own path as I try to write more than 200 evaluations, keep up with this class and still remain an effective teacher (plus attending my own children’s 4 soccer games, 2 track meets and one school event all in the same week!)
This photo is by Anahata Katkin and was taken in Ashland Oregon.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anahata/2358516921/
I am so excited about making my first cd cover. I have been working on making a recording of all my classes singing on garage band as a gift for a teacher who is retiring. It is a song she taught me about daffodils. I was able to put my own photo of daffodils (that I took on our campus) on the cover along with her name and the information.
Photo by Miranda
Here’s the place I found under flickr toys where I made my 
own daffodil picture into a cd cover.
I can easily see ways to use this in teaching. Being able to look under tags helped me find pictures to go along with the words of the Seven Daffodil song. I found flowers on hills, with sunrises, with castles and frozen with snow. I’m looking forward to making the slide show.
This same idea could be done with a short story, poem or different song and shared with parents at a performance or shared with other classes. I have been doing a lot of projects on garage band where I record my classes performing live (not the bad canned stuff you can get on garage band) and I would love to put the musc together with a slide show. We just finished making character pieces for Beowulf. I can see lots of ways I could use their music with pictures. I just need to learn how to imbed sounds into web sites and blogs!
Under the organizr feature I really liked the way you could set a picture and hide descriptions or comments in different boxes on the picture. I know I can use this-I’m just not sure how.
Final thought: I loved finding out about the guest pass feature that allows people without accounts to see your pictures for a set time period.
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