Genie+Tanner

Wiki **-** worked on creating a USN sports wiki for interactive season summaries. Available to coaches, students, and parents? Blog - considered the idea of creating a blog for daily schedules, with wiki (sports, styles & trends) links. Netvibes - created a page and began to select RSS feeds from several websites. Digg.com - didn't get there, but plan to.
 * Day 1**

Google Calendars - Perfect for synching schedules in the Business Office, as well as family calendars. Endless possibilities and calendar can be placed on desk top OR as part of a Netvibes type site. Spent the morning working on this. Wordpress - perhaps better than blogger.com, which is where the yearbook brainstorm blog is currently located. Clustr maps - very cool means of tracking hits.
 * Day 2**

Registered for SKYPE. Worked on the DAILY in Wordpress, creating links to the Plain English clips. Need to add "The Book" clip and "Devil Wears Prada". Spent quite a bit of time on Second Life. Hmmm - not really sure it is for me. Will take an amazing amount of time to become fluent. Other apps are more interesting. Explored Netvibes more in depth. Using these tools to let the internet "come to you" would be a time saver in the office.
 * Day 3**

Social Networking - Classroom 2.0 and Facebook. Examining the professional aspects of Social Networking. Continued work on the wordpress blog. Figured out how to link the usnsports wiki to the blog.
 * Day 4**

Worked on song lyrics in google doc. Voice thread - oh so neat!
 * Day 5**

Moving right along. Added wiki links to our wordpress blog and issued invitations to the yearbookers to join. One student accepted the invitation to join, but has yet to make a post. Each day I think of additional ways that we can use the wiki. Today it occurred to me that students could post their feature stories to the wiki for easy editing editing purposes.
 * Day 15**