posted by Susan Tompkins on Jul 23
Today’s hot topic on a few channels is SlyDial. It connects you directly to someone’s voicemail, even if they have their phone on and ready to receive calls. Why would you want to do this? A couple of reasons come to mind. Their website states that “because you are short on time, want to avoid an awkward conversation, or don’t want to bother someone.” It also suggests that if you want to make a call when you know someone is probably asleep, and you don’t want to wake them, SlyDial would be a good way to do that. I am thinking of the times that you may need to get a message to a parent but are short on time and cannot devote time for a lengthy conversation, then this product would be a practical solution. Their website states that prepaid phones will not handle this service, so beware. Let me know if you can think of any other uses. I am curious!
posted by Susan Tompkins on Jul 19
During the past week, I have been exposed to new people, ideas and tools.
The LC Institute proved another valuable experience in my effort to bring my classroom in Louisiana to another level of learning.
Thanks to several presenters for free tools that are available to use in education. Of particular interest is the site that Steve Dembo illustrated during his session where live feeds can be sent to and from your classroom with mogulus.
During the last day’s rotations, Howard Martin presented an incredible display of how quickly he taught himself the features on mogulus, so much that I am inspired to use it sooner rather than later. Many thanks to all my buddies who are now in my annual photo updates. Below are a few I have shared.
posted by Susan Tompkins on Jul 15
Well, my session on God or Goddess Complex - It’s All In The Numbers is finished. We had a great time together learning about Blabberize. We shared ideas and worked well together, which is always the case with DEN members. During the session we used our LA Rulers, thanks to my ladder-falling-breaking-leg husband, to measure our facial features, blabberizing about it, and using Word to make our faces symmetrical.
When it came down to finding what our numbers were, we had a teachable moment thanks to Rita. After our numbers were revealed, we seemed to have a Goddess in our midst. When Rita’s number came out one one-thousandth from a perfect 1.618 we were ecstatic! We had never been in the presence of deity like this! After much ado about our discovery, it seems that during the presentation a certain someone got off task and, can you believe, fudged her measurements! It must have been her deity status that caused her random numbers to generate a virtually perfect, golden number.
Any session is great when the people are honest and willing to try something new, so hat’s off to all who attended and if you know of someone who is a REAL God or Goddess, please send them our way! An easy link is tinyurl.com/DNI2008 for some of the materials I’ve uploaded. If you have any questions or comments about the session, please leave a comment or email me. Check out Our Fav Blabber by clicking the lower left arrow.
