Thursday, January 21, 2016

Thing 3:

Looking into Social Media (which is not my thing) but am finding cool reading sites.  Some of these I already know about, and some are new.  I was just on YA Book Club and have been having fun reading what young kids are recommending.  This is great because I'm always putting in book orders for my school, and sometimes I struggle with the YA books.  I know the popular ones, but knowing what kids have read and recommend is great.  The site gives you a good overview of the book and how many kids have recommended it.  This is a great site to find and use.

Monday, January 4, 2016

Thing 2 : Photo Fun



Above is a photo of my crazy family (just the kids) that I took over Christmas.  I am failing miserably at this assignment because my work computer won't let me access Pixabay.  Many sites are blocked here at school.  Unfortunately, I don't currently have a working computer at home.  I did spend a good deal of time exploring Flickr, Snapfish, Shutterfly and Piinterest.  While I can save a picture to my computer and open it to look, I couldn't drag it to this blog site.  I really don't wish to sign up for an account on any of these sites.  So instead, I downloaded a picture I recently took and dragged it over (see above).  However, I did love looking at the images (especially on Flickr) and was very inspired.  I'm working on a paper crane project here at school and I found many wonderful ideas of ways I can incorporate the cranes into pieces of art.  And, of course, Pinterest (which I used to love looking at before I had to have an account) is a wonderful source of creativity.