So What, So Far???

Day 2 of the ULearn Conference and I am thinking 'So What, So Far???'...What have I taken away with me so far:

*In the physical sense,  I've bought an A3 folder/book with pockets for kids work ANNNND the kids can record their stories as this A3book has recordable capabilities.  Each page has a number and when you push that number you hear their story replayed!  WOW!  Quick, easy and re-useable!

Quietly, I am looking at a Mac Pro (oooooooo I want one!).

**Twitter:  For example, you can tweet a question and get loads of replies in a matter of minutes (I soooo did not see that one...yes I am a 'non-twittier' but am slowly seeing 'a picture').

***Creativity: As one follow ULearner put it (while discussing the characteristics of creativity in one of our sessions), FUN - you can have fun while you drive a car drunk, INNOVATIVE - you can be innovative while causing destruction....Mr Creativity-KillJoy!

Borrowed from deviant-art, from the net.

He is right, you can be all of these things and still have slithers of creativity when looking from a different aspect, but for me, FUN, INNOVATION, EXPRESSION are only a few parts of the Creativity-Puzzle in a positive sense.  *I also had to consider Fear of being creative (especially when surrounded by people that don't see that creativity...yet, or fear of failure).

****Interesting:  Apart from meeting lots of new interesting people, yesterday I sat in a Keynote Session (probably the one I tweeted about saying "I am hungry!"), and Dr Jack Bacon was speaking.  This man has had an INTERESTING family, Grandparents that worked in Aviation, his Grandmother one of the first American women to gain a University Degree, they both worked with one of the Wright brothers through this organised Aviation Community, Grandfather had met Gene Roddenberry (you heard it!  And so had Dr Jack Bacon!), Dr Jack himself is a distinguished lecturer (emeritus) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) but there is so much more about this man that is....INTERESTING!  Please click on his coloured name to see more about Dr Jack!

Anyway, I am actually sitting in the middle of another Keynote Session and trying to listen, think and type!  So 'gotta' go.  Will add pictures...some time! 
:)

ULearn 2011

Am sitting in my first Breakout Session at my first ULearn Conference and what did I choose??? Tweeting and Twittering! And I am not very good at any of it but on the up side... the internet played a big part in me being 'sucky'! I am still having a great time! PS The food smells devine at Novotel!

What's going on? by lesal38

What's going on? by lesal38

Have you heard of 'Playing for Change'? You should have!

Playing for Change singing 'Stand by Me'. After you watch this, you'll 'get' how they did it! I thought WOW when I first saw this vid. They have many more and I love the concept behind their action! WOW!

More Pics! Visit Dumpr

These ones are created in Dumpr :) As you can see, the photos I used in the backgrounds are ones I changed in the BeFunky.com site, saved them to my PC and then uploaded them into the Dumpr site.

In the BeFunky site, you can also add borders, speech bubbles and other bits n' bobs to make pictures more interesting to look at (I didn't mention this in the BeFunky post!).

Have fun :)

Xtranormal.com ... Let's Make Movies!

Why not make a movie? This is a cool site but takes quite a bit of 'getting-used-to' and so is best suited for older kids! I had fun but to make the very short clip embedded, took quite a bit of time to complete.

BeFunky.com

Another photo site to change the look of your pics.  I like this site!