Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tuesday Memory Challenge from Susan Taylor Brown

Every Tuesday Susan Taylor Brown encourages bloggers to write from their memories of their past. This week she asks:
What would I find if I followed you down your memory land?
Here is mine.
I had a collection of Strawberry Shortcake Dolls when I was growing up. I used to gather her and all of her BERRY best friends to play outside. I would use the bushes and plants in our front yard to create Berryland. Sometimes, she would have to borrow Barbie's Jeep when Strawberry Shortcake was bringing more friends. :)

I also begged my dad for the Barbie Dream House. On Christmas morning, it was incredible sight. I played with it for hours that first day and then not so much afterwards. The Dream House got moved to the garage because it just took up too much space in my room. My brothers dropped a weight on it and broke part of it off. But really I loved taking my dolls and toys to the great outdoors. My dad was always finding my pricey Barbies stuck in bushes or in the soil of his potted plants.


I also had a small collection of Monchichis. I loved how they could suck their thumbs. Sometimes, I would have them put their thumbs in each other mouths. Man, that seems gross now in the world of Germ-X and Purel! They had this cute little button face.
So what would your memory lane look like?

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Thing #5 They call him Flickr...Flickr Faster than Lightning...


Flickr is a wonderful image-hosting site. Instead of overloading our SAN folders with videos and images, this is a nice place to find images you might need for ACTIVboard flipcharts and Powerpoints. Sometimes you need an image for a pictorial input or just for inferencing, Flickr is a great quick resource. If you notice on this page, I have a rolling slideshow to the right using Photobucket. Photobucket is another great resource that another teacher (H.G.) introduced me to. Google is good but with copy rights you can be too careful. Our kiddos are very visual and thus Flickr can be an easy resources to help you find images. Click on logo to go to Flickr.