New uses for google drive

I already use it for documents and slideshow presentations (for story ideas), but google drawings is a new one. The teacher opened it up for all of us to edit and it immediately ended in horror.

Filled with drawings, doodles, and layer after layer, until someone suddenly started deleting everything.

RIP tiny star I made.

For funsies, here's our other group 'work':

Sorting myself out with Mindmeister

Create your own mind maps at MindMeister


Working out what I'm doing on Mindmeister. Beyond an expose on my cat, I'm not sure what to do about another youtube video.

Yesterday was a wash

I woke up with a migraine, and so apparently did the city. I'd intended to skype into class, but the power had been knocked out and with the sometimes update from Aaron, I discovered class was canceled. So I slept.

My own internet was spotty so all I could do was plan a future post.

This class is teaching me about the importance of information presentation, which influenced me to revert back to a more old-fashioned sort of internet communication platform for an upcoming collaborative writing project with my friend and sister.

Specifically, I created a forum. More on this later.

I chose not to monetize my brand in the end

Thanks to Leah's advice, I now have a facebook page for my blog and twitter!

As with blogspot, it offered me options to put ads on my site for money. While it's not worth it for school accounts, it's an interesting idea for the future.

Please enjoy this quality map with extra quality

View My Class Area in a larger map

That smile, that grace, that face!

My podcast

A bit about one of the crime cases that I've thought of a lot since it happened.

Audio recording >>


My sources:  

CBC: Sting operation helps convict Manitoba man of murder

Winnipeg Free Press: Cryptic letter has community on edge

Yesterday: The Google

Yesterday we learned about various google products, but mostly the dead-man-walking Google Reader. It's a shame they won't be keeping it, it was good and easy to use.

I love google products, I use docs, gmail, and gchat daily, but now I'm wondering if they're heading their way to being canceled at some point in the near future.

You can't make me change all my contact information again. You can't. I had a hard enough time switching from yahoo to gmail last decade.

Googlebooks exists to give me a headache, though.

Hostage post

We learned podcasting tricks before, consider this my cut off finger proof that I know how to use it. Real post tonight once I've made a good file:

Discussion of bias in reporting and checking sources.

Reminds me of one of those pointless little internet arguments I had once, where a young lady on a forum I was on claimed that it was proven that homeschooled kids were smarter and more successful than public school kids.

A quick 'citation please' got me a link to a study that through the citations showed me that there were a lot more homeschool organizations out there than I'd previously known.