http://nycrican2.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many of you know, I am a fan of True Crime books. Just yesterday, I was browsing www.Amazon.com for new true crime books to buy. While I was browsing, I happen to see a book about a rescue of 37 girls, ages 5 to 14 from Cambodia whom were ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/11/15/human-trafficking-of-children-in-fayetteville-nc/ I currently have one of my freshman level classes blogging and doing other web2.0 type activities to earn 40% of their class grades. I have thought about how I should grade the blogs and decided to ask my Twitter Personal Learning Network (PLN) for help. Received a response from Professor ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/09/27/my-search-for-student-blog-evaluation-rubrics/ Last week, I decided to make up a very small assignment for my college level Multimedia Presentations Class. The assignment was to use a royalty free picture site such as Http://www.sxc.hu to find 10 Jpg formatted photos in a topic relating to multimedia. For example: 10 photos of musical instruments ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/09/27/short-student-assignment-yields-lots-of-learning/ If you read my 7 Meme blog, you might remember that I grew up in the South Bronx. What I did not reveal in the blog was that my family was only one of two Hispanic families living in the building where I lived. All of the other families were ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/ode-to-michael-jackson/ It was August 28th, 07, the day when my cat related problems began. My oldest cat Sammy stated leaving bloody stools all over the house and throwing up every time after eating.  My whole family and I became very concerned and took him quickly to our Veterinarian. At first she ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/06/15/cat-happy-days-are-here-again/ This blog is about a dream that I had many years ago. My two sons were ages, 6 and 1 at the time. I believe that the dream was a warning for me about a terrible event that was about to or could have occurred. My husband was out of ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/warning-in-a-dream/ For months, I have been frustrated by the fact that suddenly and unexpectedly I could not log on to several sites that I logged on to easily in the past.To my knowledge, It was only happening on one of the six computers that I owned. This particular computer is a ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/04/07/cant-log-into-certain-sites-possible-solution/ A few weekends ago, my youngest son’s Apple Power Macintosh G4 867 DP Mirrored drive Door Model # M8787LL/A computer crashed. The specs for this computer can be found on this site: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_867_dp_mdd.html He was running Mac OS Tiger version 10.4. 6. The OS somehow got corrupt and kept booting into ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/03/07/apple-update-woes-and-what-i-have-learned/ This is an amazing video created as a keynote for the http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/03/05/video-created-for-the-net-generation-education-project/ My Twitter friend, Alec Courosa was recently interviewed by a reporter from a Canadian TV news show concerning Twitter. He then posted a copy of the video shown on TV, on a few of his social networks sites. I watched the video and  thought he did a great job.  However, ... http://nycrican2.edublogs.org/2009/02/22/my-tweet-and-picture-were-featured-in-a-canadian-tv-new-story/